Why this ride
A 330 km round trip from Öhringen - roughly 4 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch, Lone Valley and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 and Lone Valley
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 330 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35
Öhringen had not one but two Roman forts, known today as the Bürgkastell and the Rendelkastell, both on the Upper Germanic Limes, which ran past the town on its way south. The watchtowers numbered here were part of that frontier, and the town grew partly on the remains of the Roman settlement that clustered around the forts. Little is visible above ground, but finds are displayed in the local museum, and the line of the Limes can be followed on foot or by bike through the surrounding countryside.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch.
2. Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch
Lorch, in the Rems valley east of Stuttgart, sits on a historic seam. Just outside town, the Upper German Limes, which ran as a palisade and ditch from the Rhine, met the Raetian Limes, the stone wall running east to the Danube, and the Romans built a fort here to watch over that junction and the valley road. The fort lay beneath what is now the old town centre, and its outline, together with traces of the civilian settlement that grew around it, is marked in places in the streets. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site, and a reconstructed watchtower stands on a hill nearby.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch comes up 63 km in. Next is Lone Valley.
3. Lone Valley
The Lone is a small river in the Swabian Jura, east of Ulm, that often vanishes underground in dry weather, slipping into the limestone and leaving its bed empty. Its quiet valley, flanked by wooded slopes and limestone cliffs, holds caves where some of the oldest figurative art in the world was found. In the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave, fragments of a figure carved from mammoth ivory were pieced together into the Lion Man, a being with a human body and a lion's head, around forty thousand years old. In the Vogelherd cave, tiny ivory animals, a horse, a mammoth, a cave lion, emerged from the sediment.
Read the complete Lone Valley write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
126 km in you reach Lone Valley. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch.
4. back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35.
5. Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 to Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch
Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 → Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch to Lone Valley
Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch → Lone Valley is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lone Valley to back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch
Lone Valley → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch to Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Lorsch → Watchtowers WP 9/33 to 9/35 is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.