CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Persenbeug it runs 363 km to Persenbeug; allow about 6 h 01 of riding. It goes by way of Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert, Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell and Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Ybbs an der Donau and Persenbeug face each other across the Danube in Lower Austria, connected by a hydroelectric dam that was one of the first built on the Austrian Danube after the war. Persenbeug is dominated by its castle, perched on a rock above the river, which belonged to the Habsburgs and was the birthplace of Emperor Charles I, the last emperor of Austria-Hungary. On the Ybbs side, the remains of a small Roman fort have been found, part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Ybbs - Kleinkastell 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 48 km in. Next is Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
Traismauer is a small wine town on the south side of the Danube, just where the Traisen river comes down from the Alpine foothills to meet the big river, and it has been a fortified place for something like eighteen centuries. The Romans called their fort here Augustianis, one link in the chain of camps and watchtowers that guarded the frontier of the province of Noricum. In 2021 the Danube Limes was added to the UNESCO list, and Traismauer is one of the places where you can still see the old walls doing a job.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert write-up.
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95 km in you reach Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell.
Before there was a Vienna, there was a frontier. For some four hundred years the Danube formed the northern boundary of the Roman empire in central Europe, and a chain of forts, watchtowers and harbours kept watch along the south bank. Zeiselmauer, about thirty kilometres upstream from the modern capital, was one of them, and a stretch of Roman wall with a tower still stands in the village, incorporated into later buildings. The Danube Limes in Austria, Germany and Slovakia was listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell, about halfway. Next is Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube.
Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, spent several years at Carnuntum during his wars against the Germanic tribes north of the Danube, and he is thought to have written part of his Meditations here; the third book carries the note that it was written at Carnuntum. In the second century, this was one of the most important places on the Roman frontier: a legionary fortress, an auxiliary fort and a civil town that grew into the capital of the province of Upper Pannonia, with tens of thousands of inhabitants. Today, the archaeological park at Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg shows reconstructed houses, a bath and streets built using Roman methods, two amphitheatres, and the Heidentor, a great ruined triumphal arch standing alone in the fields. The Danube Limes became a World Heritage site in 2021.
Read the complete Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube write-up.
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube sits at 190 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
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back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell comes up 238 km in. Next is back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert.
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285 km in you reach back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert. Next is back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
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Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, late in the day. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
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Read the complete Ybbs - Kleinkastell write-up.
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The route ends here after 363 km.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Danube → back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traismauer - Kastell südwestlicher Fächert → back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.