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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From Wallsee it runs 182 km to Wallsee; allow about 3 h 04 of riding. The stops in between: Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Schlögen - Kastell and back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. The line favours views over speed.
26 km on Wallsee - Kastell → Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kastell is where the day begins. Next is Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Where the little River Enns joins the Danube, about twenty kilometres upstream of Linz, the Romans built their frontier. This was Lauriacum, headquarters of the Second Italic Legion, who were stationed here from the late second century to guard the northern edge of the empire, the province of Noricum, against the tribes beyond the river. Around the fortress grew a civilian town that at its height may have held many thousands of people, and later a bishop is said to have lived here. The modern town of Enns, which takes pride in being the oldest in Austria, grew up beside it, and the legionary camp lay under what is now a mix of fields, streets and suburbs.
Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
Just west of Linz, the Danube narrows and the steep, wooded slopes of the Kürnberger Wald rise from its southern bank. In the Roman period this river was the frontier of the empire, and the soldiers who guarded it built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the bank to watch for raiders crossing from the north. The Hirschleitengraben watchtower is one of these, a small Roman tower in a side ravine of the forest, part of the Danube Limes, which UNESCO listed in 2021 as one of the great frontiers of the Roman Empire. Its remains are modest, but the position, looking over the river toward Puchenau and the hills of the Mühlviertel, makes the purpose clear.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 56 km into the recorded legs you reach Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. Next is Schlögen - Kastell.
The Danube here performs one of its most famous tricks. Forced by hard granite, the river makes two tight hairpin turns, the Schlögener Schlinge, doubling back on itself in a loop so neat it looks drawn with a compass. From the viewpoint on the wooded slope above, a short walk from the road, you look down on the river curling around a forested spur, and it is one of the classic images of Upper Austria.
Read the complete Schlögen - Kastell write-up.
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Schlögen - Kastell, about halfway. Next is back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm sits at 124 km, about halfway. Next is back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
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Read the complete Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich write-up.
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back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich comes up about 155 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kastell closes the day.
Wallsee - Kastell → Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → Schlögen - Kastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Schlögen - Kastell → back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm → back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich → Wallsee - Kastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.