CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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180 km from Öhringen to Öhringen, about 3 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41, Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn, Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41.
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.
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Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 comes up about 29 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
Walldürn sits on the high, rolling plateau where the Odenwald meets the Bauland, a gentle landscape of fields, woods and small towns in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. The Romans came here in the second century AD, when the Upper German Limes was pushed forward to a new line running almost straight through the countryside, and they built a small fort at Walldürn with a civil settlement beside it, where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. The remains of a bath house have been excavated and conserved, and the line of the frontier, with its watchtowers and palisade, runs nearby. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, more than five hundred kilometres long, became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe.
Miltenberg is one of those German towns that seem almost too pretty to be real, with half-timbered houses leaning over the cobbled streets, a market square sloping down toward the river, a castle on the hill above and the Main flowing slowly past. The Romans were here first. Two forts guarded this point on the frontier, one near the old town and another to the east, where the Limes left the river and ran overland through the Odenwald, and the sites, with their civilian settlements, are part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A museum in the town displays finds from the forts.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn sits at 103 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
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back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 comes up about 148 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the closes the day.
Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the → Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 → Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Miltenbe → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Walldürn → back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/31 to 8/41 → Watchtowers WP 9/14 to 9/32 including the is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.