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 Künzing it runs 276 km to Künzing; allow about 4 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Passau Boiotro - Kastell, Oberranna - Kleinkastell, Passau Altstadt - Kastell and Schlögen - Vicus. It crosses from Germany 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. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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 Passau Altstadt - Kastell.
Passau sits at the point where three rivers meet, in the far east of Bavaria, close to the Austrian border: the Danube, which is a cold greenish-blue here, the Inn, which arrives milky green from the Alps, and the Ilz, a small, dark river that stains the water black from the peat of the Bavarian Forest. On a still day you can see all three colours running side by side at the tip of the old town, which is why people call it the City of Three Rivers, and sometimes the Bavarian Venice.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
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Passau Altstadt - Kastell, about halfway. 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 sits at 154 km, about halfway. Next is back through Passau Altstadt - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
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back through Passau Altstadt - Kastell comes up about 180 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell. Next is back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Boiotro - Kastell write-up.
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back through Passau Boiotro - Kastell, late in the day. 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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The route ends here after 276 km.
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 → Passau Altstadt - Kastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Altstadt - Kastell → Schlögen - Vicus is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Vicus → back through Passau Altstadt - Kastell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Altstadt - Kastell → back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 33 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.