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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Tulln it runs 462 km to Tulln; allow about 5 h 42 of riding. On the way it passes 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. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich 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.
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about 231 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 Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich. That is the ride.
Tulln - Kastell Zentralbereich → Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bacharnsdorf - Wachtturm → Semmering Railway is 173 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 Zentralbereich is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.