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 131 km round trip from Enns - roughly 2 h 12 in the saddle. On the way it passes Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg, Schlögen - Kastell and back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Enns - Gräberstraße is where the day begins. Next is Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Linz is a city that has reinvented itself. For much of the twentieth century it was known mainly for its steelworks and its uncomfortable links with the Nazi period; today it markets itself as a city of culture and technology, with the Ars Electronica centre glowing on the Danube bank at night, the Lentos art museum opposite, and a lively music scene. The Schlossberg, the castle hill above the old town, is where it all began: the Romans had a fort here called Lentia, part of the Danube frontier of the empire, and the Danube Limes is now on the World Heritage list. The castle that stands there now dates largely from the Renaissance, built for Emperor Frederick III, who spent his last years in Linz and died here in 1493. It houses a branch of the Upper Austrian state museum.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
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Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Schlögen - Kastell. Next is back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg, late in the day. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Enns - Gräberstraße. That is the ride.
Enns - Gräberstraße → Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Schlögen - Kastell is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Kastell → back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Linz - Befestigung Schlossberg → Enns - Gräberstraße is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.