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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257 km from Osterburken to Osterburken, about 3 h 27 of riding. It goes by way of Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth, Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Osterburken is the place on the German Limes where you really can see the Romans in the town. The fort here sat on the frontier in the Bauland, a hilly farming district between the Odenwald and the Neckar, and the museum in the town houses the remains of the fort baths and a rare relief of the god Mithras, an eastern cult favoured by soldiers, whose followers met in small, dark temples to share a sacred meal. The watchtowers 8/29 and 8/30 stand out in the fields a short distance away, part of the line that ran straight over the hills.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth.
For a stretch of about fifty kilometres, the Roman frontier of Upper Germany did not need a wall at all. Between Großkrotzenburg and Miltenberg, the Main river itself served as the border, and the Romans lined its western bank with forts and watchtowers to watch over the water and the forested hills of the Spessart on the other side. Wörth am Main had one of these forts, with a civil settlement where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. Very little remains above ground, but this wet frontier is inscribed as part of the Upper German Limes, and standing on the riverbank you can see why the Romans thought the river was enough.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth → Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Marköbel → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth → Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.