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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88 km from Glashütten to Glashütten, about 1 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber and back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 17 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
The Taunus is the low, forested mountain range that closes in the north of the Frankfurt basin, and the Romans put their frontier along and over it. Here, near Glashütten, the line passes through high woodland at roughly four hundred metres above sea level, in an area that is cold and often foggy in winter. Towers 3/41 to 3/44 belong to the third section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, the one that UNESCO recognised in 2005 together with the rest of the frontier. The Romans cleared a swathe through the forest, set up a palisade, and watched the open ground to the north, where tribes of the Chatti lived. The name Glashütten itself recalls glassmaking, once common in these forests because wood, sand and potash were all to hand.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 is where the day begins. Next is Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
The Saalburg is the Roman fort that Germany rebuilt. On the crest of the Taunus north of Bad Homburg, where the Limes crossed a pass, archaeologists excavated the remains of a fort in the nineteenth century, and between 1897 and 1907, with the enthusiastic support of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was reconstructed with walls, gates, barracks and a headquarters building. Today it is a museum and archaeological park, and the civil settlement, or vicus, that grew up outside the fort lies east of the B 456 road. It is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 write-up.
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Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber.
Friedberg's castle stands on a basalt ridge above the Wetterau, a walled enclosure so large it is almost a town of its own, with a tall round tower, the Adolfsturm, rising above the trees. What most visitors walking through the castle gate do not know is that they are standing on a Roman fort. The legions chose this same ridge in the first century AD, and a fort with a civil settlement grew up here, linked by road to the Limes a few kilometres to the north and west.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber write-up.
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about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber. Next is back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 → Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Friedber → back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Civil settlement of Saalburg east of B 456 → Watchtowers WP 3/41 to 3/44 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.