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 Klosterneuburg it runs 295 km to Klosterneuburg; allow about 4 h 56 of riding. It goes by way of Zwentendorf - Kastell, Windstallgraben - Wachtturm, Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad and St. Lorenz - Wachtturm. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
44 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it — speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
For about 33 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.
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 Zwentendorf - Kastell.
The Danube flows broad and brown past Zwentendorf, a quiet village on the Tullnerfeld plain west of Vienna, and for once the most famous building in the area is not the oldest one. Zwentendorf is where Austria built a nuclear power station in the 1970s and then, after a national referendum in 1978, decided never to switch it on. The plant still stands by the river, complete and unused, now a training site and a curiosity.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
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Zwentendorf - Kastell comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Windstallgraben - Wachtturm.
Between Dürnstein and Mautern, a small gully called the Windstallgraben cuts down toward the Danube, and somewhere along its edge stood a Roman watchtower. The Wachau valley was once the frontier of the empire, and the Danube was the line. The Romans built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the south bank, and Mautern, ancient Favianis, was one of the strongest. The Danube Limes in Austria and Germany is now part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing, and these modest remains are part of that long, thin story.
Read the complete Windstallgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 71 km into the recorded legs you reach Windstallgraben - Wachtturm. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
Pöchlarn is a small town on the south bank of the Danube, a few kilometres upstream from Melk, where the river is broad and slow and the Wachau valley is about to begin. The Romans called it Arelape and kept a fort here on the frontier of the empire, with a civilian settlement, the vicus, and a bathhouse for the garrison. Not much is visible above ground, but the town is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage site, which traces that long line of forts and watchtowers through Austria.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
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Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad, about halfway. Next is St. Lorenz - Wachtturm, 40 km on.
On the quiet south bank of the Danube in the Wachau, opposite the wine village of Weißenkirchen, the little church of St. Lorenz has a secret in its walls. Part of the building stands on, and incorporates, the masonry of a Roman watchtower, one of a chain of small fortifications that guarded the river frontier of the province of Noricum in late antiquity. The Danube was the edge of the empire here, and soldiers in the tower kept watch over the far bank for raiders. Today the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Danube Limes listing, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete St. Lorenz - Wachtturm write-up.
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St. Lorenz - Wachtturm sits at 159 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
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Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
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back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad comes up about 185 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Windstallgraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Windstallgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 223 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Windstallgraben - Wachtturm. Next is back through Zwentendorf - Kastell.
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Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
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back through Zwentendorf - Kastell, 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.
The route ends here after 295 km.
Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → Zwentendorf - Kastell is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zwentendorf - Kastell → Windstallgraben - Wachtturm is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Windstallgraben - Wachtturm → Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → St. Lorenz - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Lorenz - Wachtturm → back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → back through Windstallgraben - Wachtturm is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Windstallgraben - Wachtturm → back through Zwentendorf - Kastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.