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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206 km from Enns to Enns, about 3 h 03 of riding. The stops in between: Wallsee - Kastell, Ybbs - Kleinkastell, Blashausgraben - Wachtturm and back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The ride follows Enns - Legionslager Nordecke → Wallsee - Kastell for 26 km.
For about 30 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
When the Roman army reorganised the Danube frontier after the wars against the Marcomanni in the later second century, a legion was posted here, the Second Italica, with a base large enough to hold several thousand soldiers. Fortresses of this kind were laid out to a standard plan, a rectangle with rounded corners, four gates, a main street and a headquarters building at the centre, so a soldier transferred from another province would know where to find the bath house without asking.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Nordecke write-up.
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Enns - Legionslager Nordecke is where the day begins. Next is 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.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kastell comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 69 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wallsee - Kastell.
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Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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back through Wallsee - Kastell comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is Enns - Legionslager Nordecke.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Nordecke write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Enns - Legionslager Nordecke closes the day.
Enns - Legionslager Nordecke → Wallsee - Kastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wallsee - Kastell → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Wallsee - Kastell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wallsee - Kastell → Enns - Legionslager Nordecke is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.