Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm and Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich

Scenic road chapters

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is where the day begins. Next is Zwentendorf - Kastell.

2. 2. Zwentendorf - Kastell

   The Danube flows broad and brown past Zwentendorf, a quiet village on the Tullnerfeld plain west of Vienna, and for once the most famous building in the area is not the oldest one. Zwentendorf is where Austria built a nuclear power station in the 1970s and then, after a national referendum in 1978, decided never to switch it on. The plant still stands by the river, complete and unused, now a training site and a curiosity.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   Zwentendorf - Kastell comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.

3. 3. 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.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   about 44 km into the recorded legs you reach Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. Next is back through Zwentendorf - Kastell.

4. 4. back through Zwentendorf - Kastell

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

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   Planning note

   back through Zwentendorf - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.

5. 5. Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. That is the ride.