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 462 km round trip from Tulln - roughly 5 h 43 in the saddle. The stops in between: Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm, Semmering Railway and back through Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. 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 58 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is where the day begins. Next is Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube between Melk and Krems where the river runs through a gorge, with terraced vineyards on the slopes and small towns of white walls and baroque towers beside the water. UNESCO listed the cultural landscape in 2000, and it is one of the most beautiful stretches of the river. Bacharnsdorf is a tiny village near Spitz, the town at the heart of the valley, and Weissenkirchen is only a few minutes away.
Read the complete Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm write-up.
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Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm comes up about 58 km into the recorded legs. Next is Semmering Railway.
Carl von Ghega's railway over the Semmering was a bold idea in the 1840s, when many engineers doubted that a conventional locomotive could haul a train over a mountain pass. Built between 1848 and 1854, the line climbs from Gloggnitz to the Semmering summit through fourteen tunnels and across sixteen viaducts, some with two tiers of stone arches, curving around the flanks of the mountains on ledges cut into the rock. It became the first mountain railway inscribed on the UNESCO list, in 1998, and it still carries trains between Vienna and the south, with the new Semmering Base Tunnel under construction beneath it to take over the heavy traffic.
Read the complete Semmering Railway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 230 km into the recorded legs you reach Semmering Railway. Next is back through Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm, late in the day. Next is Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm. That is the ride.
Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm → Semmering Railway is 172 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Semmering Railway → back through Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm is 173 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm → Tulln - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.