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 Windischgarsten it runs 522 km to Windischgarsten; allow about 9 h 16 of riding. The stops in between: Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben, Wallsee - Kastell and Ybbs - Kleinkastell. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
This part of the ride is 63 km of Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Wallsee - Kastell.
The Kalkalpen National Park is the largest forest wilderness in Austria, and the Hintergebirge is one of its quiet corners, a limestone mountain range in Upper Austria with steep wooded slopes, deep valleys and very few roads. It is a landscape of beech, spruce and fir, with some of the oldest unmanaged beech forest in the Alps, so valuable that it is included in the UNESCO listing of ancient beech forests of Europe. Walking in it feels like walking in the Europe before the roads.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is where the day begins. Next is Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is a wilderness area in the Ybbstal Alps of Lower Austria, where the limestone mountains rise above deep valleys covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir. It includes the Rothwald, one of the largest remaining primeval forests in Central Europe, a forest that has never been logged, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. Here trees grow, die and decay naturally, creating a rich habitat for insects, fungi, birds and mammals.
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Dürrenstein-Lassingtal comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Wilder Graben translates as the wild ravine, and the name fits the country south of the Enns valley in Upper Austria, where the Kalkalpen National Park protects a great tangle of limestone mountains, gorges and forest. This is the Reichraminger Hintergebirge, a maze of steep valleys with clear green streams at the bottom and almost no settlements at all. It is one of the largest forested areas in Austria, and parts of its old beech woods belong to the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests across Europe.
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about 152 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. 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.
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Wallsee - Kastell, 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.
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Ybbs - Kleinkastell sits at 205 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wallsee - Kastell.
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back through Wallsee - Kastell comes up about 300 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
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Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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about 367 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. Next is back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal.
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back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal, late in the day. Next is Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
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The route ends here after 522 km.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 88 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → Wallsee - Kastell is 63 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 → back through Wallsee - Kastell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wallsee - Kastell → back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dürrenstein-Lassingtal → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 71 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.