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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Zeiselmauer it runs 433 km to Zeiselmauer; allow about 5 h 19 of riding. The stops in between: 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. The line favours views over speed.
A Roman fort is built around its gates, and the Kastentor at Zeiselmauer is where the road once entered the fort of Cannabiaca. Gates were the weak point of any fort, so they were guarded by towers and given heavy doors, and the roads that led through them were the arteries of the frontier. This gate faced the main road along the Danube, and soldiers, merchants and messengers passed through it for generations. The excavation of the gate gave archaeologists a close look at how the fort was built and how it changed over time.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor write-up.
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Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor 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.
Read the complete Mautern - Kastell Westbereich write-up.
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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.
Read the complete Semmering Railway write-up.
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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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mautern - Kastell Westbereich, late in the day. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor. That is the ride.
Zeiselmauer - Kastell Kastentor → 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 Kastentor is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.