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 Zeiselmauer it runs 124 km to Zeiselmauer; allow about 2 h 32 of riding. The stops in between: Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld, Baden bei Wien and back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld.
Vienna began as a Roman legionary camp, Vindobona, on a terrace above the Danube, and its streets still follow some of the old lines. The camp itself was in what is now the inner city, around Hoher Markt, and the canabae, the civilian settlement that grew up beside it, spread out to the west and south with workshops, taverns, houses and cemeteries. The Gräberfeld, the field of graves, lay beyond, as Roman custom demanded. The remains here are mostly underground and under pavements, which suits a city that has built on every layer of its past.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld write-up.
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Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baden bei Wien.
The Romans already knew about the hot sulphur springs at Baden, just south of Vienna, but it was in the early nineteenth century that the town became the summer playground of the Habsburg court. Emperor Franz I spent his summers here, and the aristocracy and the wealthy bourgeoisie followed, building elegant villas, parks and bathhouses in the Biedermeier style. Beethoven came to take the waters too, staying many times and working on his Ninth Symphony in a house that is now a museum. In 2021, Baden was listed by UNESCO as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, alongside Bath, Baden-Baden, Karlovy Vary and others.
Read the complete Baden bei Wien write-up.
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about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Baden bei Wien. Next is back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld, late in the day. Next is Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell. That is the ride.
Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld → Baden bei Wien is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baden bei Wien → back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wien - Canabae West und Gräberfeld → Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.