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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197 km from Kaisersbach to Kaisersbach, about 3 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Building remains south of the watchtower W, Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13, Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort and back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
There is a stretch of the Roman frontier in southern Germany that runs almost perfectly straight for about eighty kilometres, from Walldürn in the Odenwald to near Welzheim in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, ignoring hills and valleys alike, as if the surveyors had simply drawn a line on a map. The watchtowers numbered WP 9/101 to 9/131 stand near the southern end of that line, in the forests around Kaisersbach and Welzheim, where the Limes finally turns.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th is where the day begins. Next is Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Mainhardt sits high in the Swabian-Franconian Forest, between Heilbronn and Schwäbisch Hall, on a wooded plateau that the Romans chose for one of the forts guarding their frontier. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes runs through here on its long, ruler-straight stretch heading south towards Welzheim, and along it stood watchtowers every few hundred metres, with small buildings nearby for the soldiers who manned them. The remains south of one of these towers are modest, low foundations in a clearing or under the forest floor, but they are part of the World Heritage frontier that runs for more than five hundred kilometres across Germany. The village has a small Roman museum that explains the fort and its garrison.
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Building remains south of the watchtower W comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, was born at Jagsthausen castle in about 1480, and he would probably be amused to know that he is best remembered today for a rude phrase. In Goethe's play about him, Götz tells an imperial messenger exactly what the emperor can do, a line that every German knows. The castle still stands in the village, now a hotel, and in summer the Burgfestspiele, an open-air theatre festival, stages the play in the castle courtyard. Long before Götz, the Romans were here too: a fort stood at Jagsthausen on the line of the Upper Germanic Limes, and in the hills around, a series of watchtowers, numbered by archaeologists as WP 9/2 to 9/13, kept watch along the frontier.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 write-up.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 sits at 110 km, about halfway. Next is back through Building remains south of the watchtower W.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Building remains south of the watchtower W comes up about 166 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th → Building remains south of the watchtower W is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Building remains south of the watchtower W → Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/11 to 8/28 including fort → back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → back through Building remains south of the watchtower W is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Building remains south of the watchtower W → Watchtowers WP 9/101 to 9/131 including th is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.