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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From Wesel it runs 183 km to Wesel; allow about 3 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Kalkar-Kalkarberg, Kleve-Keeken, Arnhem-Meinerswijk and back through Kleve-Keeken. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules.
Where the Lippe meets the Rhine, the Romans came and went. Wesel stands at that confluence, and the long straight valley of the Lippe was one of their invasion routes into Germania in the years around the birth of Christ, when the generals of Augustus pushed east of the Rhine and built camps along the river. The fields called Flürener Feld lie just outside the town, on flat arable land, and they are part of the Lower German Limes, the Roman frontier along the Rhine which UNESCO inscribed in 2021. What the listing preserves is below the soil: ditches, post holes and the faint outlines of military camps, visible mostly as crop marks from the air. On the ground you see a field, a hedge and the sky.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 write-up.
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Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 is where the day begins. Next is Kalkar-Kalkarberg.
Near the Dutch border, where the Rhine flows through wide meadows and dyked farmland, the small town of Kalkar holds a surprising amount of history. The Kalkarberg is a low rise near Altkalkar, and on it stood the Roman fort of Burginatium, one of the posts along the Lower German Limes, now part of the UNESCO-listed Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The rise would have given a valuable view over the river plain, and the fort controlled the road between Xanten and Nijmegen. Today it is fields and trees, but the shape of the land still hints at the old fortification.
Read the complete Kalkar-Kalkarberg write-up.
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Kalkar-Kalkarberg comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kleve-Keeken.
Here the Rhine stops being a German river. Just downstream of the village of Keeken, the great river crosses the border into the Netherlands, and a few kilometres further on it divides, with the Waal carrying most of the water west and the Pannerdens Canal leading to the Nederrijn and the IJssel. In Roman times, this was the northern frontier of the empire, the Lower German Limes, and Keeken is one of the sites listed as part of the UNESCO frontier, with traces of Roman military installations along the old river course.
Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Kleve-Keeken. Next is Arnhem-Meinerswijk.
The Rhine has always been a frontier here. In Roman times, the Lower Rhine marked the northern edge of the empire, and the Romans built a chain of forts, watchtowers and roads along its banks to guard it. At Meinerswijk, on the southern bank of the river opposite Arnhem, the remains of one of those forts lie buried in the floodplain. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021. There is little to see on the surface, but the floodplain itself, a wide expanse of meadows, ponds and willows, is a pleasant place to walk, and markers explain the history.
Read the complete Arnhem-Meinerswijk write-up.
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Arnhem-Meinerswijk, about halfway. Next is back through Kleve-Keeken.
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Read the complete Kleve-Keeken write-up.
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back through Kleve-Keeken sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkar-Kalkarberg write-up.
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back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg comes up about 150 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 closes the day.
Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 → Kalkar-Kalkarberg is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkar-Kalkarberg → Kleve-Keeken is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Keeken → Arnhem-Meinerswijk is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Arnhem-Meinerswijk → back through Kleve-Keeken is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Keeken → back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkar-Kalkarberg → Wesel-Flüren | Flürener Feld 2 is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.