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 199 km round trip from Weinzierl bei Krems - roughly 2 h 57 in the saddle. It goes by way of Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, Ybbs - Kleinkastell, Wallsee - Kleinkastell and back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell. The line favours views over speed.
For about 25 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.
42 km on Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Wallsee - Kleinkastell.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Blashausgraben - Wachtturm comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Ybbs - Kleinkastell. Next is Wallsee - Kleinkastell.
Wallsee is the kind of Danube town you only notice if you slow down: a market square, a big castle on a rock above the river, and a long, quiet waterfront where the cycle path runs past willows and moored boats. Beneath the streets lie the remains of a small Roman fort, one of the posts that lined the river frontier of the province of Noricum, and archaeologists have also traced a larger fort nearby. Both are part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing inscribed in 2021, though above ground the medieval and Baroque town has long since taken over.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm comes up about 174 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich closes the day.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Wallsee - Kleinkastell is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wallsee - Kleinkastell → back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.