CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 173 km round trip from Klein-Pöchlarn - roughly 2 h 56 in the saddle. On the way it passes St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm, Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert, Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm and back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 27 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm, 31 km on.
Above the Wachau, in the forested hills on the south bank, a watchtower stood in the Roman period, and its stones are a quiet reminder that this valley was once the border of an empire. The Danube was the northern frontier of the province of Noricum, and the Romans guarded it with forts and signal towers every few kilometres, a chain that now forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Danube Limes. The tower near St Johann im Mauerthale was one of these, placed to see along the river and warn of anyone crossing from the north. Not much remains but the foundations, and they sit in a place with a long view.
Read the complete St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm write-up.
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St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm comes up 31 km in. Next is Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
Traismauer is a small wine town on the south side of the Danube, just where the Traisen river comes down from the Alpine foothills to meet the big river, and it has been a fortified place for something like eighteen centuries. The Romans called their fort here Augustianis, one link in the chain of camps and watchtowers that guarded the frontier of the province of Noricum. In 2021 the Danube Limes was added to the UNESCO list, and Traismauer is one of the places where you can still see the old walls doing a job.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert write-up.
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61 km in you reach Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Egon Schiele was born in Tulln in 1890, in the station building where his father was stationmaster, and the town that produced one of the most provocative painters of Viennese modernism is today a quiet, prosperous place on the Danube, known as Austria's garden town. Long before that, it was the Roman fort of Comagena, part of the frontier along the Danube that protected the Roman province of Noricum. One of the fort's towers has survived remarkably well: the so-called Salzturm, a horseshoe-shaped tower on the riverbank, one of the best-preserved Roman structures in Austria. It is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
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Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm, about halfway. Next is back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
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Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert write-up.
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back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert sits at 123 km, about halfway. Next is back through St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm, 30 km on.
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Read the complete St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm comes up 153 km in. Next is Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West.
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Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West closes the day.
Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West → St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm → Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → back through St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm → Pöchlarn - Kastell Hufeisenturm West is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.