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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289 km from Osterburken to Osterburken, about 5 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, Building remains of south of Pfahlheim and back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Romans did not much care for the shape of the land when they drew this frontier. Around Osterburken the Upper Germanic Limes stops following valleys and ridges and simply runs in long, stubborn straight lines across the Bauland, the rolling limestone country between the Odenwald and the Jagst. The watchtower sites numbered in this stretch were once timber, then stone, posts spaced so that each could see its neighbours, strung along a palisade and ditch that marked where the province ended and the unconquered north began.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Mainhardt sits on a ridge in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, and the Roman frontier ran right through it, on its way south in one of the longest straight lines ever drawn across European landscape. Here, the Upper Germanic Limes runs for some eighty kilometres from Walldürn to near Welzheim almost perfectly straight, ignoring hills and valleys, as if surveyors had laid a ruler on the map. The watchtowers numbered in this section stood along that line in the forest, and Mainhardt had a fort, whose site is marked in the village, with a small museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Building remains of south of Pfahlheim.
The name of the village gives the game away. Pfahlheim, a part of Ellwangen in the Ostalb, takes its name from the Pfahl, the stake line, which is what generations of farmers called the Roman frontier that ran through their fields. Here, at the edge of what is now Baden-Württemberg, the Upper German Limes and the Raetian Limes met, and the building remains south of the village are one of many small components of the UNESCO-listed Upper German-Raetian Limes. The frontier ran almost dead straight across this country for long distances, ignoring hills and streams in a way that still baffles people. There is very little to see on the ground today, perhaps a low bank or a signboard, but the line can be traced by eye if you know where to look.
Read the complete Building remains of south of Pfahlheim write-up.
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about 144 km into the recorded legs you reach Building remains of south of Pfahlheim. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort → Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Building remains of south of Pfahlheim is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Building remains of south of Pfahlheim → back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.