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 Großkrotzenburg it runs 204 km to Großkrotzenburg; allow about 2 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel, Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor, Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald and Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 22 km this is German Fairy Tale Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Main river is where the Roman frontier changes character. Coming down from the north, the Limes runs in a long arc through the Wetterau and then meets the river near Großkrotzenburg, and from there the Romans used the Main itself as the boundary, with towers and forts strung along its bank. The numbers 5/13 and 5/14 belong to that river line, and a fort and its civilian settlement sit close by. On the ground, expect a marker, a low rise and a view down toward the water rather than anything dramatic.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel.
Marköbel is a village in the eastern Wetterau, the fertile plain north east of Frankfurt, and it stands on the site of a Roman fort that guarded the frontier where it crossed this open country. The fort, with its civilian settlement, the vicus, where merchants, craftsmen and soldiers' families lived, was part of the Upper German Limes, and today little remains above ground, but the village streets still follow parts of the old layout, and a reconstructed section of the frontier and markers explain the history. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
The Wetterau is a broad, fertile basin north of Frankfurt, a land of rich loess soils, wheat fields, orchards and old villages, and the Romans wanted it badly. Their frontier, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, bulged out here to take in the whole basin, looping around it in a wide arc. At Ober-Florstadt stood a fort with a civilian settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. Today little is visible, but the site is part of the World Heritage frontier, and information boards help to picture the scene.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
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about 42 km into the recorded legs you reach Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. Next is Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
The Roman frontier in Germany, the Limes, ran for over five hundred kilometres from the Rhine to the Danube, a line of palisades, ditches, walls, watchtowers and forts that marked the edge of the empire. In the Wetterau, north of Frankfurt, the Limes swung east in a great bulge to enclose this fertile plain, which the Romans valued for its farmland. In the woods near Wölfersheim stood a signal tower, one of the many small posts along the line, and today its remains are part of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
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Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald, about halfway. 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 sits at 70 km, about halfway. Next is back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald comes up about 140 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 162 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 204 km.
Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the → Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Langenha → back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Signaltower Wölferheimer Wald → back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fortsite and civil settlement of Ober-Flor → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → Watchtowers WP 5/13 to 5/14 including the is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.