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 Lich it runs 167 km to Lich; allow about 2 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha, Watchtower WP 3/49*, Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the and back through Watchtower WP 3/49*. The line favours views over speed.
The Wetterau is the broad, fertile plain north of Frankfurt, between the Taunus and the Vogelsberg, and the Romans considered it so valuable that they bent their frontier around it to include it in the empire. The Limes ran along the northern edge of the plain, and the watchtowers numbered WP 4/53 to 4/57, near the town of Lich, stood on this section, part of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes listed by UNESCO in 2005. Like most watchtowers, they survive only as mounds or traces in the fields and forest, but the line of the frontier can be followed on foot or by bicycle.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Elvis Presley spent his military service in Friedberg, a few kilometres from here, from 1958 to 1960, and lived in a rented house in the spa town of Bad Nauheim, where fans still leave messages on the wall outside and a square in the town bears his name. But nearly two thousand years earlier, other soldiers served in this region. The Roman frontier of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a World Heritage site, ran along the edge of the Taunus hills here, and at Langenhain, near Ober-Mörlen, the Romans built a fort with a civil settlement beside it, where traders, craftsmen and the families of soldiers lived. Today, the site is mostly fields and meadows, with information boards to help you imagine the walls, gates and buildings that once stood here.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtower WP 3/49*.
High in the Taunus, the wooded hills northwest of Frankfurt, the Roman Limes followed the ridge line, and its watchtowers looked out over the forests to the north. Watchtower WP 3/49, near Schmitten and Glashütten, is one of hundreds of such posts recorded along the frontier, and today its remains lie in the woods, a low mound or a scatter of stones. The Limes path, a long-distance walking trail, follows the line through the forest, and walkers can trace the ditch and bank of the old frontier for kilometres. The whole line is part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/49* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtower WP 3/49*. Next is Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the.
In the hills of the Taunus north of Wiesbaden, the Roman frontier ran along the ridges through dense forest, and between watchtowers 3/15 and 3/19 near Idstein, its line can still be traced on the ground. The Romans built an earth bank and ditch, topped with a wooden palisade, with stone watchtowers at regular intervals, close enough to see each other and signal along the line. In the forest, the bank and ditch survive as a long, low ridge and hollow, and the foundations of watchtowers appear as low mounds, sometimes with a few stones visible. The Upper Germanic and Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, has been a World Heritage site since 2005.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtower WP 3/49*.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 3/49* write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtower WP 3/49* sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 → Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → Watchtower WP 3/49* is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 3/49* → Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 3/15 to 3/19 including the → back through Watchtower WP 3/49* is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 3/49* → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → Watchtowers WP 4/53 to 4/57 is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.