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 Osterburken it runs 394 km to Osterburken; allow about 6 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the, Murrhardt civil settlement northern part, Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh and Lone Valley. It follows river valleys.
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 9/14 to 9/32 including the.
For about eighty kilometres through northern Württemberg, the Roman frontier runs in a nearly perfectly straight line, ignoring hills, valleys and rivers as if someone had drawn it with a ruler on a map. Surveyors still argue about how the Romans managed it. The stretch with watchtowers 9/14 to 9/32, near Öhringen in the Hohenlohe region, lies along this remarkable line, and Öhringen itself grew from Roman forts, two of them, which guarded the frontier here. The line is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and the Limes trail follows it through fields and forests.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the comes up about 43 km into the recorded legs. Next is Murrhardt civil settlement northern part.
Murrhardt lies in the valley of the Murr, deep in the Swabian-Franconian Forest northeast of Stuttgart, a hilly, densely wooded region of streams, mills and small villages that feels a long way from the industrial heartland just to the west. The Romans built a fort here on the Limes, the frontier that ran through these forests from north to south, and a civil settlement grew up around it. The northern part of that settlement lies under parts of the modern town, and while there is little to see, the town's museum displays Roman finds, and the frontier through these woods is protected by its World Heritage status.
Read the complete Murrhardt civil settlement northern part write-up.
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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Murrhardt civil settlement northern part. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh.
On the southern edge of Schwäbisch Gmünd, near the Schirenhof farm, the outline of a Roman fort and the foundations of its bath house lie in the grass, with walls and hypocaust heating systems laid out for visitors to see. The fort guarded the point where the Upper Germanic Limes met the Raetian Limes, the two great frontier lines of Roman Germany, and a civilian settlement grew up around it. The site is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, and it is one of the more rewarding Limes stops in Baden-Württemberg, with visible remains and a lovely setting above the town.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh, about halfway. Next is Lone Valley.
The Lone is a small river in the Swabian Jura, east of Ulm, that often vanishes underground in dry weather, slipping into the limestone and leaving its bed empty. Its quiet valley, flanked by wooded slopes and limestone cliffs, holds caves where some of the oldest figurative art in the world was found. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, fragments of a figure carved from mammoth ivory were pieced together into the Lion Man, a being with a human body and a lion's head, around forty thousand years old. In the Vogelherd cave, tiny ivory animals, a horse, a mammoth, a cave lion, emerged from the sediment.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
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Lone Valley sits at 162 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh comes up about 271 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Murrhardt civil settlement northern part write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 311 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 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.
The route ends here after 394 km.
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort → Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the → Murrhardt civil settlement northern part is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Murrhardt civil settlement northern part → Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh → Lone Valley is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lone Valley → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Schirenh → back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Murrhardt civil settlement northern part → back through Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the → Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.