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 Adelsheim it runs 108 km to Adelsheim; allow about 1 h 51 of riding. It goes by way of Building remains north of Götzingen, Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl and back through Building remains north of Götzingen. The line favours views over speed.
Somewhere between Walldürn and the hills north of Stuttgart, the Roman surveyors drew a line on the map and simply refused to bend it. For about eighty kilometres, the Upper Germanic Limes runs almost perfectly straight across hill and valley, one of the most remarkable feats of ancient surveying in Europe. The watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 near Osterburken and Adelsheim lie on that straight stretch, and like the rest of the frontier they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Most are now low mounds in fields and woods, but here and there you will find a reconstructed tower or a stretch of wall to give you an idea of what it looked like.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is where the day begins. Next is Building remains north of Götzingen.
The Odenwald is old, rounded country, a forested upland between the Rhine and the Main, and the Limes crosses its eastern edge in a line so straight that it looks drawn with a ruler. Near Gotzingen, a village in the Buchen district of Baden-Wurttemberg, the frontier ran past a small Roman building that archaeologists found in the fields. The remains are the foundations of a small military station or a farm building, in a place where the soldiers lived close to the line. It is a modest site, but it shows that the frontier was more than a wall.
Read the complete Building remains north of Götzingen write-up.
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Building remains north of Götzingen comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl.
At Miltenberg, the Roman frontier did something unusual: it stopped being a wall and became a river. North of the town, the Main served as the frontier for some fifty kilometres, guarded by forts and watchtowers along its western bank, and here, where the river bends, the land frontier began again, heading south through the Odenwald. The watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 belong to this stretch, and while most are only traces in fields and forests, they are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Romans built forts at Miltenberg, too, and some of their finds are displayed in the town museum.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl. Next is back through Building remains north of Götzingen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Building remains north of Götzingen write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Building remains north of Götzingen, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41. That is the ride.
Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 → Building remains north of Götzingen is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains north of Götzingen → Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 7/1 to 7/36 including fortl → back through Building remains north of Götzingen is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains north of Götzingen → Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.