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 476 km round trip from Klosterneuburg - roughly 5 h 53 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, Semmering Railway and back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 76 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Klosterneuburg Abbey rises on a terrace above the Danube just north of Vienna, its baroque domes topped with an imperial crown and an archducal hat, and few visitors realise that beneath its walls lie the remains of a Roman fort. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier, the Limes, with a chain of forts, and Klosterneuburg's position on a hill overlooking the river made it an obvious choice. The fort and the civil settlement around it are part of the UNESCO site of the Danube Limes, inscribed in 2021.
Read the complete Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus write-up.
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Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is where the day begins. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
In the fifth century, as Roman authority along the Danube collapsed, a holy man named Severinus lived at a place called Favianis, organising food supplies, ransoming captives and negotiating with barbarian kings on behalf of the remaining Roman population. His biography, written by his disciple Eugippius, is one of the most vivid accounts of the end of Roman rule in central Europe, and Favianis is generally identified with Mautern, a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems. The Roman fort here, parts of which survive in the town walls, is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich comes up about 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Semmering Railway.
Carl von Ghega's railway over the Semmering was a bold idea in the 1840s, when many engineers doubted that a conventional locomotive could haul a train over a mountain pass. Built between 1848 and 1854, the line climbs from Gloggnitz to the Semmering summit through fourteen tunnels and across sixteen viaducts, some with two tiers of stone arches, curving around the flanks of the mountains on ledges cut into the rock. It became the first mountain railway inscribed on the UNESCO list, in 1998, and it still carries trains between Vienna and the south, with the new Semmering Base Tunnel under construction beneath it to take over the heavy traffic.
Read the complete Semmering Railway write-up.
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about 231 km into the recorded legs you reach Semmering Railway. Next is back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, late in the day. Next is Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus. That is the ride.
Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Semmering Railway is 160 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Semmering Railway → back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 161 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.