CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 179 km round trip from Pfedelbach - roughly 3 h 05 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13, Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30, Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau and Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
Between Öhringen and Mainhardt, the Upper German Limes does something a Roman engineer must have been proud of: it runs dead straight for many kilometres, up hill and down dale, ignoring the terrain as if drawn with a ruler on a map. The watchtower sites numbered along this section lie on that line, in the Hohenlohe country of northern Württemberg, between the open farmland around Pfedelbach and the dark wooded hills of the Swabian-Franconian Forest.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
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Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is where the day begins. 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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Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 comes up 20 km in. Next is Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
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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40 km in you reach Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau.
Jagsthausen is a village of around fifteen hundred people in the Jagst valley of northern Württemberg, and it punches far above its weight in history. The Romans built a fort here on the Upper German-Raetian Limes, with a civilian settlement and a bath house, part of the UNESCO-listed frontier. But the village is better known for a later resident: Götz von Berlichingen, the knight with the iron hand, who was born in the castle here around 1480. He lost his right hand in battle and had a mechanical one made, led peasants in the war of 1525, and became the hero of a play by Goethe that contains a famously rude line that Germans still quote.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau, about halfway. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur.
Osterburken is a small town in the Bauland of northern Baden-Württemberg, and the Romans left it one of the most interesting fort sites on the Upper German Limes. The fort here was built in the second century AD, when the frontier was moved forward, and it had an unusual annex fort added later, with walls that ran down the slope toward the stream, making it one of the few double fort complexes on the Limes. Large sections of the walls have been excavated and conserved, and the Roman museum next to the site displays finds from the fort and the civil settlement. The Upper German-Raetian Limes became a UNESCO site in 2005.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur sits at 81 km, about halfway. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau.
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Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau write-up.
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back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau comes up 101 km in. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 write-up.
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121 km in you reach back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13.
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back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 write-up.
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The route ends here after 179 km.
Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 → Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur → back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Jagsthau → back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 8/29 to 8/30 → back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 9/2* to 9/13 → Watchtowers WP 9/36 to 9/68 is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.