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 Hietzing it runs 83 km to Hietzing; allow about 1 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus, Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich and back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
This part of the ride is 17 km of Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
27 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Schönbrunn was the summer residence of the Habsburgs, the dynasty that ruled a large part of Europe for centuries. The palace, on the western edge of Vienna, was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the eighteenth century under Empress Maria Theresa, and it has more than a thousand rooms. It began as a hunting lodge on land where, legend says, Emperor Matthias found a beautiful spring, the schöner Brunnen that gave the place its name. The gardens are vast and formal, with avenues of trees, fountains, statues, a maze, and the Gloriette, a colonnaded structure on the hill above the palace with views over Vienna. The palace and gardens were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1996.
Read the complete Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn write-up.
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Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is where the day begins. Next is Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
Klosterneuburg Abbey rises on a terrace above the Danube just north of Vienna, its baroque domes topped with an imperial crown and an archducal hat, and few visitors realise that beneath its walls lie the remains of a Roman fort. The Romans guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier, the Limes, with a chain of forts, and Klosterneuburg's position on a hill overlooking the river made it an obvious choice. The fort and the civil settlement around it are part of the UNESCO site of the Danube Limes, inscribed in 2021.
Read the complete Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus write-up.
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Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
The Nibelungenlied, the great medieval German epic, sends Kriemhild down the Danube to marry Etzel, king of the Huns, and has her meet him at Tulln, which says something about the town's importance on the river for centuries. Long before that, the Romans built a cavalry fort here called Comagena, and its walls still lurk beneath the town centre. The best survival is the Salzturm, a tower by the river whose lower parts are Roman, among the best preserved Roman structures in Austria. The fort is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
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about 41 km into the recorded legs you reach Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. Next is back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus, late in the day. Next is Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn. That is the ride.
Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn → Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Klosterneuburg - Kastell und Vicus → Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.