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 15 of riding. It goes by way of 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.
Pöchlarn is a small town on the south bank of the Danube, a few kilometres upstream from Melk, where the river is broad and slow and the Wachau valley is about to begin. The Romans called it Arelape and kept a fort here on the frontier of the empire, with a civilian settlement, the vicus, and a bathhouse for the garrison. Not much is visible above ground, but the town is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage site, which traces that long line of forts and watchtowers through Austria.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
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Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Albing - Legionslager, late in the day. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad. That is the ride.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → 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 - Vicus und Kastellbad is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.