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 378 km round trip from Worms - roughly 6 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth, Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur and back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In the Middle Ages, three Rhineland cities, Speyer, Worms and Mainz, were the centres of Jewish learning in northern Europe, and they gave their initials, in Hebrew, to a community known as ShUM. The Jewish communities of these cities developed traditions, laws and customs that influenced Ashkenazi Jewry for centuries, and their monuments were listed together by UNESCO in 2021. In Worms, the synagogue compound includes the synagogue, rebuilt after its destruction by the Nazis in 1938, the women's synagogue, the mikveh, a ritual bath dating from the twelfth century, and the Rashi house, now a Jewish museum, named after the great medieval scholar who studied here.
Read the complete Worms Synagogue Compound write-up.
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Worms Synagogue Compound is where the day begins. Next is Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth.
For a stretch of about fifty kilometres, the Roman frontier of Upper Germany did not need a wall at all. Between Großkrotzenburg and Miltenberg, the Main river itself served as the border, and the Romans lined its western bank with forts and watchtowers to watch over the water and the forested hills of the Spessart on the other side. Wörth am Main had one of these forts, with a civil settlement where soldiers' families, traders and craftsmen lived. Very little remains above ground, but this wet frontier is inscribed as part of the Upper German Limes, and standing on the riverbank you can see why the Romans thought the river was enough.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth write-up.
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Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth comes up about 126 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur. Next is back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth, late in the day. Next is Worms Synagogue Compound.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Worms Synagogue Compound write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Worms Synagogue Compound. That is the ride.
Worms Synagogue Compound → Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth is 126 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth → Fort site and civil settlement of Osterbur is 63 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 Wörth is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort site and civil settlement of Wörth → Worms Synagogue Compound is 128 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.