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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An 87 km round trip from Weinzierl bei Krems - roughly 1 h 27 in the saddle. On the way it passes Traismauer - Kleinkastell, Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm and back through Traismauer - Kleinkastell. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 16 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the south bank of the Danube, just where the river leaves the Wachau gorge and swings out onto the plain, the Romans built a fort called Favianis, and its successor, the town of Mautern, still has the pattern of the Roman streets. The fort was part of the Danube frontier, and in the fifth century, when the empire was crumbling, it became famous because of a monk named Severinus, who came here to help the population and negotiate with the barbarian kings. His life, written by a disciple, is one of the few detailed accounts of life on the Danube at the end of Roman rule.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Westbereich write-up.
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Mautern - Kastell Westbereich is where the day begins. Next is Traismauer - Kleinkastell.
Traismauer is a small town with a very long memory. Before it was a market town on the Traisen river, it was the Roman fort of Augustianis, one of the posts on the Noricum stretch of the Danube frontier, and some of the Roman wall still stands in the town. The Kleinkastell, the small fort, is part of that chain: a compact stone enclosure, a few watchtowers and a garrison, one of the many modest strongpoints that made the limes more than a line on a map.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Traismauer - Kleinkastell comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Egon Schiele was born in Tulln in 1890, in the station building where his father was stationmaster, and the town that produced one of the most provocative painters of Viennese modernism is today a quiet, prosperous place on the Danube, known as Austria's garden town. Long before that, it was the Roman fort of Comagena, part of the frontier along the Danube that protected the Roman province of Noricum. One of the fort's towers has survived remarkably well: the so-called Salzturm, a horseshoe-shaped tower on the riverbank, one of the best-preserved Roman structures in Austria. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. Next is back through Traismauer - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Traismauer - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Mautern - Kastell Westbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Westbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mautern - Kastell Westbereich. That is the ride.
Mautern - Kastell Westbereich → Traismauer - Kleinkastell is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kleinkastell → Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → back through Traismauer - Kleinkastell is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traismauer - Kleinkastell → Mautern - Kastell Westbereich is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.