CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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216 km from Künzing to Künzing, about 3 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Passau Boiotro - Kastell, Oberranna - Kleinkastell, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm and back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell. It crosses from Germany into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Künzing sits on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, in a broad, fertile plain known as the Gäuboden, and in Roman times it was a place with a name, Quintana. The Romans built a fort here in the second century, one of the posts on the river frontier of the province of Raetia, and a civilian settlement, a vicus, grew up beside it, with houses, workshops and even an amphitheatre. The Danube Limes in Germany, Austria and Slovakia was listed by UNESCO in 2021, and Künzing is one of the places where it is easiest to grasp what daily life along the frontier was like.
Read the complete Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus write-up.
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Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus is where the day begins. Next is Passau Boiotro - Kastell.
Passau stands at a meeting of three rivers, and the Romans noticed. The Inn, the Danube and the small, dark Ilz flow together under the cathedral hill, and the Inn bank opposite, where the Innstadt lies today, was the site of the Roman fort of Boiotro, which guarded the Danube frontier, the Limes, and commanded the river crossing. The name suggests the Boii, the Celtic people who once lived in this region, and the Roman fort stood in a long line of defences along the river, from here down to Oberranna in Austria.
Read the complete Passau Boiotro - Kastell write-up.
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Passau Boiotro - Kastell comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 63 km into the recorded legs you reach Oberranna - Kleinkastell. 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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Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell sits at 168 km, about halfway. Next is back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell.
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Read the complete Passau Boiotro - Kastell write-up.
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back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell comes up about 182 km into the recorded legs. Next is Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus write-up.
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Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus closes the day.
Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus → Passau Boiotro - Kastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Boiotro - Kastell → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell → back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell → Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.