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 Passau it runs 203 km to Passau; allow about 3 h 14 of riding. The stops in between: Oberranna - Kleinkastell, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Enns - Gräberstraße and back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Expect gradients and long views.
Passau stands at a meeting of three rivers, and the Romans noticed. The Inn, the Danube and the small, dark Ilz flow together under the cathedral hill, and the Inn bank opposite, where the Innstadt lies today, was the site of the Roman fort of Boiotro, which guarded the Danube frontier, the Limes, and commanded the river crossing. The name suggests the Boii, the Celtic people who once lived in this region, and the Roman fort stood in a long line of defences along the river, from here down to Oberranna in Austria.
Read the complete Passau Boiotro - Kastell write-up.
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Passau Boiotro - 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 30 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 73 km into the recorded legs you reach Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is 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.
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Enns - Gräberstraße, about halfway. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm sits at 150 km, about halfway. Next is back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Oberranna - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Oberranna - Kleinkastell comes up about 172 km into the recorded legs. Next is Passau Boiotro - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Passau Boiotro - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Passau Boiotro - Kastell closes the day.
Passau Boiotro - Kastell → Oberranna - Kleinkastell is 30 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 → Enns - Gräberstraße is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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 → 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 Boiotro - Kastell is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.