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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358 km from Deutsch Jahrndorf to Deutsch Jahrndorf, about 5 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, Baden bei Wien and back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape. It crosses from Slovakia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape for 72 km.
Three countries meet in the fields south of Bratislava, and the Romans had a fort here long before anybody drew those borders. Gerulata was an auxiliary fort on the Danube frontier, in what is now Rusovce, a district at the southern edge of the Slovak capital. Its remains have been excavated, and a small museum displays foundations and finds, from coins to pottery and gravestones. The site is part of the Danube Limes listed by UNESCO, a frontier that ran from Germany to the Black Sea.
Read the complete Rusovce - Gerulata write-up.
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Rusovce - Gerulata is where the day begins. Next is Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
The Neusiedler See, Fertő in Hungarian, is a strange lake. It is huge, over three hundred square kilometres of water stretching from Austria across the border into Hungary, but almost nowhere is it deeper than a couple of metres, and a vast belt of reeds surrounds much of it, so that from many places you cannot actually see the water. It has no natural outflow, its level depends on rain and evaporation, and in the 1860s it dried out completely for several years, with farmers ploughing the lakebed. The lake and the villages around it were listed by UNESCO in 2001 as a cultural landscape shaped by thousands of years of human life on the border between Alpine and steppe worlds.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
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Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baden bei Wien.
The Romans already knew about the hot sulphur springs at Baden, just south of Vienna, but it was in the early nineteenth century that the town became the summer playground of the Habsburg court. Emperor Franz I spent his summers here, and the aristocracy and the wealthy bourgeoisie followed, building elegant villas, parks and bathhouses in the Biedermeier style. Beethoven came to take the waters too, staying many times and working on his Ninth Symphony in a house that is now a museum. In 2021, Baden was listed by UNESCO as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, alongside Bath, Baden-Baden, Karlovy Vary and others.
Read the complete Baden bei Wien write-up.
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about 183 km into the recorded legs you reach Baden bei Wien. Next is back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape, late in the day. Next is Rusovce - Gerulata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rusovce - Gerulata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rusovce - Gerulata. That is the ride.
Rusovce - Gerulata → Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → Baden bei Wien is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Baden bei Wien → back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape → Rusovce - Gerulata is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.