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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A 433 km round trip from Zeiselmauer - roughly 5 h 19 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mautern - Kastell Westbereich, Semmering Railway and back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Zeiselmauer is a village that grew up inside a Roman fort, and it never quite moved out. The late Roman fort of Cannabiaca guarded this stretch of the Danube near Tulln, part of the frontier of the province of Noricum, and its walls, gate and towers were absorbed into the village over the centuries. One of the best-preserved features is a horseshoe-shaped tower, typical of late Roman fortifications, and a later fortlet within the fort, with walls standing several metres high, is one of the most impressive Roman buildings in Austria. Zeiselmauer is part of the Danube Limes, listed by UNESCO in 2021.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is where the day begins. Next is Mautern - Kastell Westbereich.
On the south bank of the Danube, just where the river leaves the Wachau gorge and swings out onto the plain, the Romans built a fort called Favianis, and its successor, the town of Mautern, still has the pattern of the Roman streets. The fort was part of the Danube frontier, and in the fifth century, when the empire was crumbling, it became famous because of a monk named Severinus, who came here to help the population and negotiate with the barbarian kings. His life, written by a disciple, is one of the few detailed accounts of life on the Danube at the end of Roman rule.
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Mautern - Kastell Westbereich comes up about 55 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.
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about 216 km into the recorded legs you reach Semmering Railway. Next is back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Westbereich write-up.
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back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich, late in the day. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm. That is the ride.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm → Mautern - Kastell Westbereich is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mautern - Kastell Westbereich → Semmering Railway is 161 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Semmering Railway → back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich is 161 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich → Zeiselmauer - Kastell Hufeisenturm is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.