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 Český Krumlov it runs 439 km to Český Krumlov; allow about 7 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Schlögen - Kastell, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Albing - Legionslager and Ybbs - Kleinkastell. It crosses from Czechia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Český Krumlov is shaped by a river. The Vltava makes a series of tight S-bends in a rocky valley in south Bohemia, and the old town sits in one of the loops, with a castle on a cliff above it, so that the whole place feels like a stage set. The castle is the second largest in the Czech Republic, with a round tower painted in Renaissance style, a bridge across the moat where brown bears live, and a Baroque theatre from the seventeenth century that still has its original stage machinery. The town was owned by the Rožmberk family and later the Schwarzenbergs, and the painter Egon Schiele lived here for a time in 1911. UNESCO listed the historic centre in 1992.
Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
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Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is where the day begins. 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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Schlögen - Kastell comes up about 99 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Just west of Linz, the Danube narrows and the steep, wooded slopes of the Kürnberger Wald rise from its southern bank. In the Roman period this river was the frontier of the empire, and the soldiers who guarded it built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the bank to watch for raiders crossing from the north. The Hirschleitengraben watchtower is one of these, a small Roman tower in a side ravine of the forest, part of the Danube Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021 as one of the great frontiers of the Roman Empire. Its remains are modest, but the position, looking over the river toward Puchenau and the hills of the Mühlviertel, makes the purpose clear.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 133 km into the recorded legs you reach Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is 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.
Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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Albing - Legionslager, about halfway. 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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Ybbs - Kleinkastell sits at 201 km, about halfway. Next is back through Albing - Legionslager.
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Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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back through Albing - Legionslager comes up about 294 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 329 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is back through Schlögen - Kastell.
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Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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back through Schlögen - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Historic Centre of Český Krumlov.
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Read the complete Historic Centre of Český Krumlov write-up.
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The route ends here after 439 km.
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov → Schlögen - Kastell is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Schlögen - Kastell → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Albing - Legionslager is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albing - Legionslager → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Albing - Legionslager is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albing - Legionslager → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Schlögen - Kastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schlögen - Kastell → Historic Centre of Český Krumlov is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.