Why this ride
A 252 km round trip from Sankt Aegidi - roughly 3 h 51 in the saddle. On the way it passes Passau Haibach - Burgus, Schlögen - Vicus, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm and Enns - Gräberstraße. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Oberranna - Kleinkastell and Enns - Gräberstraße
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 252 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 51
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Scenic road chapters
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Passau Haibach - Burgus
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 32 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 28 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Oberranna - Kleinkastell is where the day begins. Next is Passau Haibach - Burgus.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Passau Haibach - Burgus comes up about 28 km into the recorded legs. Next is Schlögen - Vicus.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 65 km into the recorded legs you reach Schlögen - Vicus. Next is Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, about halfway. Next is Enns - Gräberstraße.
5. Enns - Gräberstraße
Enns claims to be the oldest town in Austria, on the strength of a charter granted in 1212, but its roots go much deeper. Just outside the modern town lay Lauriacum, a Roman legionary fortress that housed the Second Italian Legion and grew into one of the most important places on the Danube frontier, with a civilian town, temples and, as the Gräberstraße name suggests, roads lined with cemeteries. The Romans buried their dead along the roads outside settlements, and excavations here have found hundreds of graves, stones and offerings. The site is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Enns - Gräberstraße write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Enns - Gräberstraße sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
6. back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm comes up about 155 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Schlögen - Vicus.
7. back through Schlögen - Vicus
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Schlögen - Vicus write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Schlögen - Vicus. Next is back through Passau Haibach - Burgus.
8. back through Passau Haibach - Burgus
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Haibach - Burgus write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus, late in the day. Next is Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
9. Oberranna - Kleinkastell
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 252 km.
Leg by leg
Oberranna - Kleinkastell to Passau Haibach - Burgus
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Passau Haibach - Burgus is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Passau Haibach - Burgus to Schlögen - Vicus
Passau Haibach - Burgus → Schlögen - Vicus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Vicus to Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm
Schlögen - Vicus → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm to Enns - Gräberstraße
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Enns - Gräberstraße is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Enns - Gräberstraße to back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm
Enns - Gräberstraße → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm to back through Schlögen - Vicus
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Schlögen - Vicus is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Schlögen - Vicus to back through Passau Haibach - Burgus
back through Schlögen - Vicus → back through Passau Haibach - Burgus is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus to Oberranna - Kleinkastell
back through Passau Haibach - Burgus → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.