CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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301 km from Miehlen to Miehlen, about 5 h 08 of riding. It goes by way of Watchtower WP 1/64, Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a, Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar and Köln-Deutz. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 35 km this is Moselle Wine Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
North of the Taunus ridge, the Limes crossed a high, open plateau between the Rhine and the Lahn, and the stretch with watchtowers 2/23 to 2/26 runs through the farmland and woods near Miehlen and Singhofen in the Rhein-Lahn district. The remains here are subtle, mostly low banks and the traces of towers in fields and forest edges, but the line of the frontier is marked by the long-distance Limes trail and information boards. This is part of the UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a stretch of the line that few visitors ever see.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is where the day begins. Next is Watchtower WP 1/64.
Höhr-Grenzhausen smells of clay and fire. The town, in the Westerwald hills north east of Koblenz, is the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, the jug-bakers' land, where potters have been making salt-glazed stoneware for centuries, with its characteristic grey body and cobalt blue decoration. Westerwald stoneware jugs, mugs and pots were exported across Europe and beyond, and the craft is still alive today, with workshops, a ceramics museum and a college for ceramic design. The Roman frontier ran right past the town, and the site of watchtower WP 1/64, near Höhr-Grenzhausen, is one of the many traces of the Upper German Limes, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site.
Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/64 write-up.
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Watchtower WP 1/64 comes up 36 km in. Next is Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a.
Two thousand years ago, the frontier of the Roman Empire in Germany began right here. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes, a line of watchtowers, forts, palisades and ditches stretching more than five hundred kilometres to the Danube, started on the right bank of the Rhine at Rheinbrohl, and the watchtowers numbered WP 1/1 and onwards marched away from the river into the wooded hills. This little section between Rheinbrohl and Bad Hönningen is the very beginning of the line, part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage site.
Read the complete Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a write-up.
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72 km in you reach Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a. Next is Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar.
The southern Kottenforst is the Bonn locals' own backyard, and on a fine Sunday it feels like it. Tracks and rides cross the woodland in all directions, and the people on them are walkers, joggers, riders and families on bicycles rather than motorbikes. The name on the label, with its mention of a pond-like hollow called Maar, hints at the wet, clay-lined depressions that dot this plateau and hold water after rain. Underneath lie old Roman remains too, including part of the Eifel aqueduct that carried water toward Cologne, though you will see it only if you know where to look.
Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar write-up.
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Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar, about halfway. Next is Köln-Deutz.
Opposite the great cathedral of Cologne, on the right bank of the Rhine, stands Deutz, which began as a Roman fort named Divitia. Around the year 310 the emperor Constantine had a fortress built here, connected to Colonia Agrippinensis on the opposite bank by a stone bridge, one of the first permanent bridges across the Rhine. The fort was about a hundred and fifty metres square, with massive walls and towers, and it gave the Romans a bridgehead on the edge of the Germanic lands. Sections of the walls have been excavated and can be seen in the area, and the fort belongs to the Lower Germanic Limes.
Read the complete Köln-Deutz write-up.
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Köln-Deutz sits at 145 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar.
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Read the complete Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar write-up.
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back through Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar comes up 181 km in. Next is back through Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a.
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Read the complete Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a write-up.
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217 km in you reach back through Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a. Next is back through Watchtower WP 1/64.
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Read the complete Watchtower WP 1/64 write-up.
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back through Watchtower WP 1/64, late in the day. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
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Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
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The route ends here after 301 km.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Watchtower WP 1/64 is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtower WP 1/64 → Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a → Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar → Köln-Deutz is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Köln-Deutz → back through Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kottenforst Süd | Oben der Krayermaar → back through Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limes section between watchtowers WP 1/2 a → back through Watchtower WP 1/64 is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtower WP 1/64 → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.