CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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283 km from Greding to Greding, about 4 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin, Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, Straubing - Kastell St. Peter and back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 46 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
In Bavaria, the Roman frontier changed character. Instead of the wooden palisade used in the Upper German section, the Raetian Limes was eventually built as a stone wall, known locally as the Devil's Wall, because medieval people could not imagine anyone but the devil building something so long. The stretch between Watchtowers 15/1 and 15/7 crosses the hills around the Altmühl valley, near Kipfenberg and Kinding, and the line of the wall can still be traced in places as a low ridge in the forest. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Between Ingolstadt and Kelheim, the Danube flows through a broad, flat valley in Bavaria, with hop gardens, fields of maize and asparagus beds on its banks. Pförring is a small market town on the north bank, with Neustadt an der Donau and Vohburg on the other side. In Roman times, this was the frontier: the Raetian Limes ended at the Danube just downstream, and the Romans built a fort here, known as Celeusum, with a civil settlement outside its walls.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin comes up about 31 km into the recorded legs. Next is Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
There is not much to see at Großprüfening, and that is worth knowing before you arrive expecting walls. The Roman fort and its civil settlement lie on the western edge of Regensburg, close to where the Naab flows into the Danube, and what survives is mostly under fields and houses, known from excavation and aerial photographs rather than from standing masonry. The site is part of the Danube Limes, the river frontier that UNESCO listed in 2021, and its value is in the position: a garrison watching a river junction, a natural route north into what the Romans considered barbarian country.
Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
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about 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 46 km on.
In 1950, workmen digging in a Straubing suburb found a hoard that stunned archaeologists: a collection of Roman parade armour, helmets with face masks and decorated metal pieces, buried in the third century, probably to hide them from invaders. The Straubing Roman treasure is now one of the most important finds of its kind north of the Alps, and it is displayed in the Gäubodenmuseum in the city. The fort at St Peter, on the eastern edge of town, was part of the same Roman presence. Straubing was Sorviodurum, a Roman town with several forts on the Danube frontier, and this was one of several forts there.
Read the complete Straubing - Kastell St. Peter write-up.
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Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, about halfway. Next is back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
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back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic sits at 182 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin comes up about 250 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 → Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → Straubing - Kastell St. Peter is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Straubing - Kastell St. Peter → back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Pfoerrin → Watchtowers WP 15/1 to 15/7 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.