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 Klein-Pöchlarn it runs 290 km to Klein-Pöchlarn; allow about 4 h 17 of riding. The stops in between: 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Danube has been a border for a long time, and Pöchlarn is one of the places where you can feel it. The Romans knew it as Arelape, one of the forts on the river frontier of the province of Noricum, and the Horseshoe Tower, the Hufeisenturm, is what is left of the western side of that fort. A horseshoe-shaped tower is just what it sounds like: a defensive bastion with a curved outline that lets the garrison cover the wall in more directions. It is a modest ruin, not a Colosseum, and its charm is that you find it between houses rather than in a field of tickets.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West write-up.
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Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West 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 71 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 148 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 West.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West. That is the ride.
Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West → Albing - Legionslager is 71 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 West is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.