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 199 km round trip from Osterburken - roughly 3 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the, Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the, Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par and back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. 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 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 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.
about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the. Next is Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par.
In the Swabian Forest east of Stuttgart, the Roman frontier ran as straight as a ruler for some eighty kilometres, ignoring hills and valleys in a way that still puzzles historians. Welzheim lies on this straight stretch of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, and the town had two Roman forts, the west and east forts, with a civil settlement around them. The northern part of the settlement near the east fort is one of the components of the Limes World Heritage Site, and the Ostkastell has been turned into an archaeological park with a reconstructed gate.
Read the complete Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par write-up.
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Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the.
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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 sits at 115 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 157 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → 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 → Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Welzheim-Ost civil settlement northern par → back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/70 to 9/99a including the → back through Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 28 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 8/29 to 8/30 is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.