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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A 233 km round trip from Miehlen - roughly 3 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81, Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a, Remagen and back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 48 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is where the day begins. Next is Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81.
Kadenbach, Arzbach and Eitelborn are three small villages on the broad, wooded plateau of the Westerwald, a short way north of the Lahn valley, and the four watchtowers here sit in a short run along the Roman frontier. Numbers 1/78 to 1/81 belong to the first section of the Upper German-Raetian Limes, running from the Rhine towards the Taunus. The frontier was a palisade with towers placed within sight of one another, and the signal system relied on fire at night and smoke or flag by day. In this area the Romans picked ridges and shoulders of hills so the view ran for miles over land that was then forest and scrub.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 comes up about 30 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a.
Between Rengsdorf and Anhausen the Westerwald is open farmland and beech woods, and a Roman frontier ran straight through it. The Upper German-Raetian Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2005, started on the Rhine near Rheinbrohl and ran for hundreds of kilometres to the Danube, a line of timber towers, a palisade, and in places a ditch and bank. The code WP 1/39 a is not poetry, it is bookkeeping: the old German Reichs-Limeskommission numbered the frontier by section and then by watchtower, and archaeologists still use their numbers. Here, a section of the line survives as a low bank and shallow hollow in the grass, which you will walk past without noticing unless someone points it out.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a. Next is Remagen.
On 7 March 1945, soldiers of the US 9th Armored Division reached Remagen and found the Ludendorff railway bridge across the Rhine still standing, despite German attempts to blow it. They rushed across, and for the first time the Allies had a foothold on the far bank of the great river. Ten days later the damaged bridge collapsed, but by then pontoons had been built and the war in the west had entered its last chapter. What remains today are the black stone towers on both banks, and those on the Remagen side house a small peace museum telling the story with honesty and without glorification.
Read the complete Remagen write-up.
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Remagen, about halfway. Next is back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a sits at 109 km, about halfway. Next is back through Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 comes up about 202 km into the recorded legs. Next is Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f closes the day.
Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f → Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 → Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a → Remagen is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Remagen → back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limessection between watchtowers WP 1/39 a → back through Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Watchtowers WP 1/78 to 1/81 → Watchtowers WP WP 2/23 to 2/26 including f is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.