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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216 km from Traismauer to Traismauer, about 3 h 06 of riding. It goes by way of St. Lorenz - Wachtturm, Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad, Wallsee - Kleinkastell and back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad. The line favours views over speed.
For about 24 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
51 km on Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → Wallsee - Kleinkastell.
Traismauer is a small town with a very long memory. Before it was a market town on the Traisen river, it was the Roman fort of Augustianis, one of the posts on the Noricum stretch of the Danube frontier, and some of the Roman wall still stands in the town. The Kleinkastell, the small fort, is part of that chain: a compact stone enclosure, a few watchtowers and a garrison, one of the many modest strongpoints that made the limes more than a line on a map.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Traismauer - Kleinkastell is where the day begins. Next is St. Lorenz - Wachtturm, 38 km on.
On the quiet south bank of the Danube in the Wachau, opposite the wine village of Weißenkirchen, the little church of St. Lorenz has a secret in its walls. Part of the building stands on, and incorporates, the masonry of a Roman watchtower, one of a chain of small fortifications that guarded the river frontier of the province of Noricum in late antiquity. The Danube was the edge of the empire here, and soldiers in the tower kept watch over the far bank for raiders. Today the site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Danube Limes listing, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete St. Lorenz - Wachtturm write-up.
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St. Lorenz - Wachtturm comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 57 km into the recorded legs you reach Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad. Next is Wallsee - Kleinkastell.
Wallsee is the kind of Danube town you only notice if you slow down: a market square, a big castle on a rock above the river, and a long, quiet waterfront where the cycle path runs past willows and moored boats. Beneath the streets lie the remains of a small Roman fort, one of the posts that lined the river frontier of the province of Noricum, and archaeologists have also traced a larger fort nearby. Both are part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing inscribed in 2021, though above ground the medieval and Baroque town has long since taken over.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is back through 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 through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through St. Lorenz - Wachtturm, 39 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete St. Lorenz - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through St. Lorenz - Wachtturm comes up about 192 km into the recorded legs. Next is Traismauer - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Traismauer - Kleinkastell closes the day.
Traismauer - Kleinkastell → St. Lorenz - Wachtturm is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
St. Lorenz - Wachtturm → Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → Wallsee - Kleinkastell is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wallsee - Kleinkastell → back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → back through St. Lorenz - Wachtturm is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through St. Lorenz - Wachtturm → Traismauer - Kleinkastell is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.