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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101 km from Idstein to Idstein, about 1 h 50 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the, Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort and back through Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Idstein sits in a bowl of the Taunus hills north of Wiesbaden, and its centre is among the best-kept half-timbered towns in Hesse. The Killinger House, a tall timber-framed building with elaborate carving, is the showpiece, and the Witches' Tower, a stone remnant of the old castle, stands above the old town as a reminder of a darker chapter. The Roman Limes passes through the hills just to the north, and Watchtower 3/23 is one of many positions on the ridge, part of the line that ran for about five hundred kilometres across Germany.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/23 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 3/23 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the.
High in the Taunus hills northwest of Frankfurt, the Upper German Limes runs along the main ridge, and here, between Glashütten and Schmitten, a series of watchtower sites and the remains of a small fort follow the frontier through dense beech and spruce forest. The bank and ditch of the Limes are still clearly visible, winding over the hills like a long scar, and the area is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site. Nearby, on the Kleiner Feldberg, lie the remains of a Roman fort, and a few kilometres east, the Saalburg near Bad Homburg is a fully reconstructed fort with a museum, the best place in Germany to imagine life on the frontier.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort.
Kaiser Wilhelm II took a personal interest in the Roman frontier, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, he ordered the complete reconstruction of the Saalburg, a Roman fort on the crest of the Taunus near Bad Homburg. The result, with its walls, gates and buildings rebuilt on the original foundations, is the most complete reconstruction of a Roman fort in Germany and houses a museum of Roman life on the frontier. A few kilometres north-east, near Rosbach vor der Höhe, the ruins of the Kapersburg fort lie in the forest, and the watchtowers numbered WP 4/1 to 4/19a, on the section of the Limes running from the Taunus ridge toward the Wetterau, are part of the UNESCO listing of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 50 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/23.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/23 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 3/23. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 3/23 → Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the → Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 4/1 to 4/19a including fort → back through Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 3/45 to 3/52 including the → Watchtowers WP 3/23 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.