CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 312 km round trip from Greding - roughly 5 h 00 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Regensburg - Östliche Canabae and Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Between Greding and Eichstätt, the Raetian Limes runs across the high Franconian Jura plateau, and the names on the map, WP 14/63 to 14/78, are archaeologists' shorthand for a sequence of Roman watchtower sites along this section of the frontier. The Raetian Limes was the wall part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, inscribed by UNESCO as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Here, the Romans built a stone wall rather than the timber palisade used further west. Locals later called the remains the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, believing nothing human could have built it.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
North of the Danube, on the edge of the Franconian Jura, the Romans built a string of forts behind the Raetian frontier to guard the river valley and the roads leading to it. Kösching, today a market town near Ingolstadt, was the site of one of them, an auxiliary fort with a civilian settlement around it, home to craftsmen, traders and the families of soldiers. Little is visible today, as the modern town has grown over it, but the site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Danube valley was a busy corridor in Roman times, and remains so today.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching comes up 35 km in. Next is Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
The Danube does something unexpected just upstream of Kelheim. Instead of wandering across flat Bavarian farmland, it cuts straight through a band of white Jurassic limestone, squeezed between cliffs that rise steeply from the water. This is the Weltenburg Narrows, and on the hill above the abbey at Weltenburg, at the spot called Am Galget, the Romans put a small fort to watch the river and the frontier.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
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71 km in you reach Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell. Next is Regensburg - Östliche Canabae.
Marcus Aurelius had the legionary fortress of Castra Regina built here, on the northernmost bend of the Danube, and its north gate, the Porta Praetoria, still stands in Regensburg's old town, built into later buildings, with a foundation inscription dated to AD 179. Outside the fortress walls, the canabae, the civilian settlements where traders, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived, spread along the river, and the eastern canabae are a piece of the World Heritage property for the Danube Limes. Regensburg's medieval old town, built on top of the Roman city, has its own UNESCO listing.
Read the complete Regensburg - Östliche Canabae write-up.
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Regensburg - Östliche Canabae, about halfway. Next is Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum.
At Eining, on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, the Roman frontier of Raetia met the river. The Raetian Limes, a stone wall running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across southern Germany, ended near here at Hienheim on the opposite bank, and from there the Danube itself formed the border all the way to the Black Sea. The Romans built the fort of Abusina at Eining, whose stone foundations are among the best preserved in Bavaria, and on the Weinberg, a hill nearby, they built a watchtower and a sanctuary, where soldiers worshipped their gods. Unusually, two separate World Heritage frontiers touch here: the Raetian Limes on land and the Danube Limes along the river.
Read the complete Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum write-up.
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Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Regensburg - Östliche Canabae.
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back through Regensburg - Östliche Canabae comes up 176 km in. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
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212 km in you reach back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
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The route ends here after 312 km.
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Regensburg - Östliche Canabae is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Regensburg - Östliche Canabae → Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Eining‐Weinberg - Wachtturm und Heiligtum → back through Regensburg - Östliche Canabae is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Regensburg - Östliche Canabae → back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.