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 175 km round trip from Großkrotzenburg - roughly 2 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl, Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the, Fort Schrenzer and back through Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is German Fairy Tale Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Great forts are rare on the Limes; most of the frontier was watchtowers, small timber and later stone posts within sight of each other, each with a handful of men and a fire for signalling. The towers numbered 5/15 and 5/16 stood near Großkrotzenburg, at the point where the land frontier coming down from the Wetterau met the Main, and from here southward the river itself became the border as far as Miltenberg. Little of them remains to see, but the location tells the story: the Romans used water where they could and built palisades only where they had to.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl.
Out here on the eastern rim of the Wetterau, between Altenstadt, Hammersbach and the Büdingen forest, the Roman frontier did something unusual. Having come over the Taunus and swung north around the fertile plain, the Limes turned and ran almost due south towards the Main, enclosing the Wetterau like a hand cupped around something precious. The towers numbered WP 4/82 to 5/8, along with small fortlets, guarded this eastern flank, and their remains lie in fields and woodland edges where only a shallow bank or a marker stone gives them away.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the.
Echzell is a small town on the edge of the Wetterau with a very big Roman past. A large fort stood here, one of the main garrison points on the Upper Germanic Limes, and the civil settlement beside it grew into a busy town, with workshops, shops, baths and an inn for travellers. Little is visible above ground today, but the outline of the fort is known, and the watchtowers numbered 4/76 to 4/80 stretch away along the frontier line. The numbers belong to the old survey system, and the line of towers, ditch and palisade ran through fields that are now farmland.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 58 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the. Next is Fort Schrenzer.
Butzbach sits at the northern edge of the Wetterau, a broad, fertile plain north of Frankfurt, where the Taunus ends and the land opens out into fields of wheat, sugar beet and rapeseed. The Romans prized this land, and their frontier made a long detour around it, swinging east and then south to include the Wetterau within the empire. Near Butzbach, on the Schrenzer hill, they built a small fort, the Kastell Schrenzer, to guard the frontier where it left the Taunus and began its loop around the plain. The fort and the frontier nearby are part of the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and the remains, low earthworks in the woods, can be visited on foot.
Read the complete Fort Schrenzer write-up.
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Fort Schrenzer, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the sits at 99 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl comes up about 149 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 → Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl → Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the → Fort Schrenzer is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Schrenzer → back through Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 4/76 to 4/80 including the → back through Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 4/82 to 5/8 including fortl → Watchtowers WP 5/15 to 5/16 is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.