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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182 km from Wallsee to Wallsee, about 3 h 05 of riding. The stops in between: Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich, Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm, Schlögen - Kastell and back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm. The line favours views over speed.
This part of the ride is 26 km of Wallsee - Kleinkastell → Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Wallsee is the kind of Danube town you only notice if you slow down: a market square, a big castle on a rock above the river, and a long, quiet waterfront where the cycle path runs past willows and moored boats. Beneath the streets lie the remains of a small Roman fort, one of the posts that lined the river frontier of the province of Noricum, and archaeologists have also traced a larger fort nearby. Both are part of the Danube Limes World Heritage listing inscribed in 2021, though above ground the medieval and Baroque town has long since taken over.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kleinkastell 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.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Hirschleitengraben - Wachtturm sits at 125 km, about halfway. Next is back through Enns - Legionslager Zentralbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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 - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Wallsee - Kleinkastell closes the day.
Wallsee - Kleinkastell → 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 - Kleinkastell is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.