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 Dürnstein it runs 77 km to Dürnstein; allow about 1 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad and back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm. 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 20 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Between Dürnstein and Mautern, a small gully called the Windstallgraben cuts down toward the Danube, and somewhere along its edge stood a Roman watchtower. The Wachau valley was once the frontier of the empire, and the Danube was the line. The Romans built a chain of forts and watchtowers along the south bank, and Mautern, ancient Favianis, was one of the strongest. The Danube Limes in Austria and Germany is now part of a UNESCO World Heritage listing, and these modest remains are part of that long, thin story.
Read the complete Windstallgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Windstallgraben - Wachtturm is where the day begins. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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Blashausgraben - Wachtturm comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad.
Pöchlarn is a small town on the south bank of the Danube, a few kilometres upstream from Melk, where the river is broad and slow and the Wachau valley is about to begin. The Romans called it Arelape and kept a fort here on the frontier of the empire, with a civilian settlement, the vicus, and a bathhouse for the garrison. Not much is visible above ground, but the town is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage site, which traces that long line of forts and watchtowers through Austria.
Read the complete Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad write-up.
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about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad. Next is back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, late in the day. Next is Windstallgraben - Wachtturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Windstallgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Windstallgraben - Wachtturm. That is the ride.
Windstallgraben - Wachtturm → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pöchlarn - Vicus und Kastellbad → back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Windstallgraben - Wachtturm is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.