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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From Riedenburg it runs 237 km to Riedenburg; allow about 3 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell, Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic, Straubing - Kastell St. Peter and back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 25 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Altmühl valley in Bavaria is one of Germany's best kept riding secrets, a winding river valley cut deep into Jurassic limestone, lined with juniper heaths, rock towers and castles. Near where the valley meets the Danube, the Roman frontier, the Raetian Limes, ran across the land, and the stretch of watchtowers and small forts numbered WP 15/11 to 15/26 lies in the wooded hills here, between Riedenburg, Dietfurt and the Danube town of Vohburg.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is where the day begins. 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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Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell comes up about 32 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 66 km into the recorded legs you reach Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 38 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.
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Read the complete Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic write-up.
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back through Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic sits at 149 km, about halfway. Next is back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell comes up about 205 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets → Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 34 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 Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Weltenburg‐Am Galget - Kleinkastell → Watchtowers WP 15/11 to 15/26 and fortlets is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.