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 Ehrenhausen it runs 60 km to Soboth; allow about 1 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Gamlitz and Leutschach. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 3 km this is Susten? Austrian South Styrian Wine Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Ehrenhausen stands on the Mur river at the very edge of Austria, in the south of Styria, with Slovenia only a few minutes away, and the hills behind it are covered in vines. This is the beginning of the South Styrian Wine Road, a winding route through steep, forested ridges where every south-facing slope is planted, the farmhouses sit on top, and the whole landscape feels like a green, softer version of Tuscany, which is what the locals call it. The village is small and has an old market square with a baroque church and a castle, and a grand mausoleum built by the Eggenberg family, one of the most powerful noble houses in the Habsburg lands.
Read the complete Ehrenhausen write-up.
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Ehrenhausen is where the day begins. Next is Gamlitz.
Gamlitz is the heart of the South Styrian Wine Road, the string of steep vineyards that runs along the Slovenian border in the south of Austria, and in autumn the whole landscape seems to glow. The hills here are covered with vines in tight, green rows, and little farmhouses and wine taverns perch on the ridges, with the Alps in the far distance. The region is nicknamed the Styrian Tuscany, a fair comparison, though the light is softer and the hills are steeper.
Read the complete Gamlitz write-up.
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Gamlitz comes up about 3 km into the recorded legs. Next is Leutschach.
Leutschach lies on the Slovenian border at the southern edge of the Styrian wine country, and the roads around it follow the steepest, wildest part of the wine road. This is a place where the hills are so steep that the vineyards are worked by hand, and the border runs along the crests, so that you can look across to the vineyards of Slovenia, which seem exactly the same. The village itself is small and attractive, with a square, a church and a few old houses, and a long tradition of winemaking and farming.
Read the complete Leutschach write-up.
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about 14 km into the recorded legs you reach Leutschach. Next is Soboth.
Soboth sits on a high wooded pass in the south-west corner of Styria, close to the Carinthian border, where the long ridge of the Koralpe sinks into a broad saddle and the road crosses from one province to another. It is a spread-out settlement more than a village, with farms, a church and a lake, the Sobother Stausee, a reservoir held by a dam in the forest, whose dark water reflects the spruce on its banks. The road tops out at well over a thousand metres, and the air is cool and smells of resin, with mist hanging in the hollows on summer mornings.
Read the complete Near Soboth write-up.
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Soboth closes the day.
Ehrenhausen → Gamlitz is 3 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gamlitz → Leutschach is 11 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Leutschach → Soboth is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.