Why this ride
A 92 km round trip from Tulln - roughly 1 h 26 in the saddle. It goes by way of Zwentendorf - Kastell, Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich and back through Zwentendorf - Kastell. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich and Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 92 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 26
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Wachau Danube Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 29 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 29 km
- Named road
- Wachau Danube Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich
The Nibelungenlied, the great medieval German epic, sends Kriemhild down the Danube to marry Etzel, king of the Huns, and has her meet him at Tulln, which says something about the town's importance on the river for centuries. Long before that, the Romans built a cavalry fort here called Comagena, and its walls still lurk beneath the town centre. The best survival is the Salzturm, a tower by the river whose lower parts are Roman, among the best preserved Roman structures in Austria. The fort is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is where the day begins. Next is Zwentendorf - Kastell.
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.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zwentendorf - Kastell comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich.
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.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich. Next is back through Zwentendorf - Kastell.
4. back through Zwentendorf - Kastell
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zwentendorf - Kastell write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich.
5. Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich to Zwentendorf - Kastell
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Zwentendorf - Kastell is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zwentendorf - Kastell to Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich
Zwentendorf - Kastell → Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich to back through Zwentendorf - Kastell
Mautern - Kastell Ostbereich → back through Zwentendorf - Kastell is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell to Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich
back through Zwentendorf - Kastell → Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.