Linz - Steyregg - Enns - St. Pantaleon - Wallsee - Ardagger
Route description
You start this route in Flussgasse in Linz, near the New Town Hall. You immediately find the Danube embankment, which leads you directly along the river and grants a view of the Linz Danube bend. The view of Pöstlingberg is not denied to you either.
Continuing on the Danube bike path past Steyregg, a name familiar to all castle enthusiasts. You now cross the Danube via the dam of the Abwinden-Asten Danube power plant and continue on the southern riverbank. The Danube bike path initially leads you through bright forests, and you cross two small waters. Shortly thereafter, you turn left and thus continue downstream. You pass through the small town of Enghagen and continue along the Danube bank. All culture lovers should make a short detour to Enns - Austria’s oldest city - because this is where Lauriacum was located. It was a legion base and a significant Roman town on the Austrian Danube Limes. It’s worth making a detour to St. Florian. The baroque monastery and Anton Bruckner’s organ are worth a visit. Due to the Enns river, which also forms the border between Upper and Lower Austria, you must use the bike ferry to cross this Danube side arm. On the other side, you are already in the Mostviertel region, and the ride continues through a forest along the Danube. The area blooms and smells strongly of wild garlic here.
Passing Albing, you move away from the Danube again and ride through St. Pantaleon. From this point, you continue on the well-signposted Mostviertel Danube bike path towards your destination. The cider route opens up the largest contiguous cider pear orchard area in Europe, the Mostviertel south of the Danube in Lower Austria. You pass numerous cider taverns, cider route inns, and farm "farm-gate" businesses offering locally produced cider. Ultimately, you reach Wallsee, where there is another castle to admire. You again move away from the Danube for a longer stretch and continue through the cider pear orchard area towards Ardagger. There, a visit to the eponymous monastery, over 950 years old, which was converted into a castle in 1813, is worthwhile.
