Albing - Legionslager and Ybbs - Kleinkastell

Scenic road chapters

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Albing - Legionslager

   There is almost nothing to see at Albing, and that is exactly what makes it a good story. Under these fields near the confluence of the Enns and the Danube lay one of the largest Roman military bases ever built in what is now Austria, a full legionary fortress raised in the later second century, around the time of the Marcomannic Wars, when Rome was fighting hard to hold the Danube against peoples from the north. It was planned on a grand scale and then, it seems, given up very soon after, probably because the site was too exposed to floods. The legion moved a few kilometres south to Lauriacum, the camp at today's Enns.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Albing - Legionslager is where the day begins. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.

2. 2. Wallsee - Kastell

   Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Wallsee - Kastell comes up about 21 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.

3. 3. Ybbs - Kleinkastell

   Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   about 64 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Wallsee - Kastell.

4. 4. back through Wallsee - Kastell

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   back through Wallsee - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Albing - Legionslager.

5. 5. Albing - Legionslager

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Back at Albing - Legionslager. That is the ride.