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 347 km round trip from Passau - roughly 5 h 43 in the saddle. On the way it passes Oberranna - Kleinkastell, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Albing - Legionslager and Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It climbs into the mountains.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 34 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Passau sits at the point where three rivers meet, in the far east of Bavaria, close to the Austrian border: the Danube, which is a cold greenish-blue here, the Inn, which arrives milky green from the Alps, and the Ilz, a small, dark river that stains the water black from the peat of the Bavarian Forest. On a still day you can see all three colours running side by side at the tip of the old town, which is why people call it the City of Three Rivers, and sometimes the Bavarian Venice.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
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Passau Altstadt - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Oberranna - Kleinkastell comes up about 33 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is Albing - Legionslager.
There is almost nothing to see at Albing, and that is exactly what makes it a good story. Under these fields near the confluence of the Enns and the Danube lay one of the largest Roman military bases ever built in what is now Austria, a full legionary fortress raised in the later second century, around the time of the Marcomannic Wars, when Rome was fighting hard to hold the Danube against peoples from the north. It was planned on a grand scale and then, it seems, given up very soon after, probably because the site was too exposed to floods. The legion moved a few kilometres south to Lauriacum, the camp at today's Enns.
Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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Albing - Legionslager, about halfway. Next is Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben.
Wilder Graben translates as the wild ravine, and the name fits the country south of the Enns valley in Upper Austria, where the Kalkalpen National Park protects a great tangle of limestone mountains, gorges and forest. This is the Reichraminger Hintergebirge, a maze of steep valleys with clear green streams at the bottom and almost no settlements at all. It is one of the largest forested areas in Austria, and parts of its old beech woods belong to the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests across Europe.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben write-up.
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Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben sits at 181 km, about halfway. Next is back through Albing - Legionslager.
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Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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back through Albing - Legionslager comes up about 236 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 271 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell, late in the day. Next is Passau Altstadt - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Altstadt - Kastell write-up.
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The route ends here after 347 km.
Passau Altstadt - Kastell → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Albing - Legionslager is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Albing - Legionslager → Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalkalpen - Wilder Graben → back through Albing - Legionslager is 60 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Albing - Legionslager → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell → Passau Altstadt - Kastell is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.