Why this ride
An 81 km round trip from Greding - roughly 1 h 05 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo and Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 81 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 05
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
2. Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
The Raetian Limes, the eastern stretch of Rome's frontier in Germany, was built differently from its western counterpart. Instead of a wooden palisade, the Romans eventually raised a stone wall here, running for over a hundred and sixty kilometres across what is now Bavaria, towards the Danube. Locals later called it the Teufelsmauer, the Devil's Wall, convinced that only a demon could have built something so long. Watchtowers stood along it every few hundred metres, and the group between WP 15/8 and 15/10, in the hills between Greding and Dietfurt, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. In places, low remains of the wall and towers can be traced in the forest and fields.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching.
3. 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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10.
4. back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo.
5. Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo to Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 to Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching to back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 to Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo
back through Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Watchtowers WP 14/63 to 14/78 including fo is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.