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 222 km round trip from Zeiselmauer - roughly 3 h 30 in the saddle. On the way it passes Traismauer - Kastell Römertor, Blashausgraben - Wachtturm, Ybbs - Kleinkastell and back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 40 km this is Wachau Danube Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Traismauer - Kastell Römertor.
A Roman gate still stands in Traismauer, a small town on the Traisen just before the river reaches the Danube, and cars and bicycles pass through it every day. The Römertor, as it is called, is one of the best preserved Roman gates in Austria, part of the fort of Augustianis, which guarded the Danube frontier, the Limes, here. The fort was modified and reused in later centuries, and towers and walls survive in the town's fabric. Since 2021, the Danube Limes has been a piece of the World Heritage property for the frontiers of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell Römertor write-up.
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Traismauer - Kastell Römertor comes up about 39 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Blashausgraben - Wachtturm. Next is Ybbs - Kleinkastell.
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, about halfway. 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 sits at 152 km, about halfway. Next is back through Traismauer - Kastell Römertor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Traismauer - Kastell Römertor write-up.
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back through Traismauer - Kastell Römertor comes up about 184 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell closes the day.
Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell → Traismauer - Kastell Römertor is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Traismauer - Kastell Römertor → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → Ybbs - Kleinkastell is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ybbs - Kleinkastell → back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → back through Traismauer - Kastell Römertor is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Traismauer - Kastell Römertor → Zeiselmauer - Kleinkastell is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.