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 Brloh it runs 329 km to Brloh; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. The stops in between: Oberranna - Kleinkastell, Passau Haibach - Burgus, Schlögen - Vicus and back through Passau Haibach - Burgus. It crosses from Czechia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 32 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Holašovice looks like a village painted from memory by someone who loved it. A long rectangular green sits in the middle, with a pond and a small chapel, and around it stand more than twenty farmhouses with gabled fronts in rich, ornate plasterwork, some in white and pale yellow and some in soft blue. The style is called folk Baroque, or peasant Baroque, and the houses were mostly built in the nineteenth century, when wealthy farmers dressed their gables in a local version of the grand style of the cities. It has been on the UNESCO list since 1998.
Read the complete Holašovice Historic Village write-up.
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Holašovice Historic Village is where the day begins. Next is Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
The Danube between Passau and Linz is one of the loveliest stretches of the whole river, and near Oberranna, on the Upper Austrian bank, it flows quietly between steep wooded slopes, dark and almost gorge-like. Here, beside the water, archaeologists found a small Roman fort, a Kleinkastell, part of the Danube Limes that guarded the northern frontier of the province of Noricum. Its remains are now protected under a modern shelter, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire along the Danube.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Oberranna - Kleinkastell comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Passau Haibach - Burgus.
Passau sits where three rivers meet, the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz, and from the high point of the Oberhaus fortress you can see their colours run side by side before mixing: green from the Inn, blue-grey from the Danube, and dark from the Ilz, which flows down from the Bavarian Forest stained by peat. The Romans knew this spot well. They had a fort here called Batavis, named after a unit of Batavian soldiers from the Rhine delta, and another at Boiotro across the Inn, and along the Danube downstream they built small fortified towers called burgi to watch the river and signal to each other. One of these late Roman burgi stood near Haibach, and its remains are part of the Danube Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Passau Haibach - Burgus. Next is Schlögen - Vicus.
The Danube does something remarkable at Schlögen. Forced by hard granite, the river makes a tight double hairpin, the Schlögener Schlinge, turning back on itself twice in a deep, wooded valley in Upper Austria, and the view of it from above is one of the most famous in the country. A short walk from the river up through the forest leads to the Schlögener Blick viewpoint, where you can see the river coiling below like a green-brown snake between steep slopes.
Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
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Schlögen - Vicus, about halfway. Next is back through Passau Haibach - Burgus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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back through Passau Haibach - Burgus sits at 219 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell comes up about 230 km into the recorded legs. Next is Holašovice Historic Village.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Holašovice Historic Village write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Holašovice Historic Village closes the day.
Holašovice Historic Village → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Passau Haibach - Burgus is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Schlögen - Vicus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Vicus → back through Passau Haibach - Burgus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus → back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Holašovice Historic Village is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.