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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A 72 km round trip from Traismauer - roughly 1 h 12 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm and back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 15 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
At Traismauer, one Roman tower still stands high enough to be seen from the street. The Hufeisenturm, the horseshoe tower, is a rounded corner tower of the old cavalry fort Augustianis, named for its shape, and it was part of a defensive wall that ran for hundreds of metres around the Roman garrison. The brick and stone, laid in neat courses, survived because later builders used it as part of the town's medieval walls, and it has been preserved and restored in recent decades.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
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Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is where the day begins. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
In the fifth century, as Roman authority along the Danube collapsed, a holy man named Severinus lived at a place called Favianis, organising food supplies, ransoming captives and negotiating with barbarian kings on behalf of the remaining Roman population. His biography, written by his disciple Eugippius, is one of the most vivid accounts of the end of Roman rule in central Europe, and Favianis is generally identified with Mautern, a small town on the south bank of the Danube opposite Krems. The Roman fort here, parts of which survive in the town walls, is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
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Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm, 18 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm. Next is back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich, late in the day. Next is Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm. That is the ride.
Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Johann im Mauerthale - Wachtturm → back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → Traismauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.