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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227 km from Linz to Linz, about 3 h 36 of riding. It goes by way of Schlögen - Kastell, Passau Haibach - Burgus, Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus and back through Passau Haibach - Burgus. It crosses from Austria into Germany - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 43 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Linz sits on the Danube about halfway between Vienna and Passau, and its history goes back to the Romans, who built a fort here called Lentia. The site of the Roman settlement lies under the old town, near the castle and the main square, and the remains of the civilian settlement spread to the surrounding districts. Martinsfeld, where this stop is placed, lies close to the centre, and the old church of St Martin nearby is one of the oldest surviving churches in Austria, with parts of its walls dating back more than a thousand years.
Read the complete Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld write-up.
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Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld is where the day begins. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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Schlögen - Kastell comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Passau Haibach - Burgus.
Passau sits where three rivers meet, the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz, and from the high point of the Oberhaus fortress you can see their colours run side by side before mixing: green from the Inn, blue-grey from the Danube, and dark from the Ilz, which flows down from the Bavarian Forest stained by peat. The Romans knew this spot well. They had a fort here called Batavis, named after a unit of Batavian soldiers from the Rhine delta, and another at Boiotro across the Inn, and along the Danube downstream they built small fortified towers called burgi to watch the river and signal to each other. One of these late Roman burgi stood near Haibach, and its remains are part of the Danube Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 as part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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about 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Passau Haibach - Burgus. Next is Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus.
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, about halfway. Next is back through Passau Haibach - Burgus.
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Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
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back through Passau Haibach - Burgus sits at 175 km, about halfway. Next is back through Schlögen - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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back through Schlögen - Kastell comes up about 186 km into the recorded legs. Next is Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld closes the day.
Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld → Schlögen - Kastell is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Kastell → Passau Haibach - Burgus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Künzing - Amphitheater und Vicus → back through Passau Haibach - Burgus is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus → back through Schlögen - Kastell is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schlögen - Kastell → Linz - Siedlung Martinsfeld is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.