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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290 km from Klein-Pöchlarn to Klein-Pöchlarn, about 4 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Albing - Legionslager, Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben and back through Albing - Legionslager. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The word Hufeisenturm means horseshoe tower, and it is the sort of detail that tells you about the Roman world when it was under pressure. In the fourth century, with raiders crossing the Danube more often, the Romans rebuilt many of their frontier forts with a new style of defence. Instead of square corner towers, they built tall towers in a U shape that projected out from the walls, giving archers and artillery a wider field of fire. The east tower at Pochlarn, the Roman fort of Arelape, belongs to that period.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost write-up.
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Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 70 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben.
Where the Pyhrn pass road drops from the Totes Gebirge toward the Enns and the Steyr valleys, Austria keeps one of its most important pieces of old forest. Kalkalpen National Park covers a large area of limestone mountains, gorges and woodland in Upper Austria, and its beech forests are among the last in Europe where trees have been left to grow, fall and rot undisturbed. They are part of a UNESCO listing called the Ancient Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, a strange name for what is, in the end, a green cathedral of grey trunks and soft, filtered light.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben write-up.
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about 147 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben. Next is back through Albing - Legionslager.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Albing - Legionslager write-up.
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back through Albing - Legionslager, late in the day. Next is Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost. That is the ride.
Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost → Albing - Legionslager is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Albing - Legionslager → Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kalkalpen - Bodinggraben → back through Albing - Legionslager is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Albing - Legionslager → Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm Ost is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.