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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A 101 km round trip from Riedenburg - roughly 1 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes Bad Gögging - Heilbad, Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching and back through Bad Gögging - Heilbad. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Up in the hills above the Altmühl valley, west of Neustadt an der Donau and the Danube, the old Raetian frontier crossed some of its prettiest country. The numbers 15/27 to 15/47 cover a long stretch of the line, and because that line follows the ridges and plateau edges, the landscape is a mixture of fields, juniper-dotted limestone slopes and sheltered woods. The Altmühl itself is a slow river that has cut a deep, winding valley through Jurassic limestone, and the whole district is a nature park, known for fossils from the quarries at Solnhofen.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is where the day begins. Next is Bad Gögging - Heilbad.
Bad Gogging is a spa town, and it has been one for nearly two thousand years. The Romans found hot sulphur springs here, in the Danube plain between Abensberg and Neustadt, and built a bathhouse beside the fort of Abusina, a short distance away. The spring water still rises, smelling of eggs, and the modern spa uses it for treatments. Excavated Roman baths are displayed in the town, and the heating channels and pools give a good idea of how the Romans relaxed after a day on the frontier.
Read the complete Bad Gögging - Heilbad write-up.
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Bad Gögging - Heilbad comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching write-up.
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about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching. Next is back through Bad Gögging - Heilbad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bad Gögging - Heilbad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bad Gögging - Heilbad, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 → Bad Gögging - Heilbad is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bad Gögging - Heilbad → Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Kösching → back through Bad Gögging - Heilbad is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Bad Gögging - Heilbad → Watchtowers WP 15/27 to 15/47 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.