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 271 km round trip from Greding - roughly 4 h 05 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld, 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. 35 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Eining is the spot where the Danube Limes and the Raetian Limes meet, or more accurately the place where the wall and ditch ran down to the river and gave way to the water as a frontier. The Romans built a fort here called Abusina, on the south bank, with walls that can still be traced in the fields and a small museum nearby. For soldiers posted to the edge of the empire it must have felt like standing at the end of the world, with the river wide and cold in front of them and Germania on the far bank. The name Unterfeld refers to the lower field beside the fort, a plain, practical label for an ordinary piece of land.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
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Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld comes up about 40 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 80 km into the recorded legs you reach Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic. Next is Straubing - Kastell St. Peter, 42 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 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld comes up about 225 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 → Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Regensburg Großprüfening - Kastell und Vic is 40 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 of Eining-Unterfeld is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site of Eining-Unterfeld → Watchtowers WP 15/8 to 15/10 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.