Current information: Due to clean-up work after the flood, the Danube Cycle Path Stage 6 North Bank / Krems - Tulln is closed. The section from Krems to Vienna is not continuously accessible on both sides of the Danube. We recommend continuing your tour from Vienna and avoiding the affected area.
From medieval city to a city of gardens and art
Today’s tour takes you along the north and south bank of the Danube and out of the Wachau and its countryside shaped by human hand. You start in Krems along the Danube, a charming center of commerce and culture, and pedal along the Danube Bike Path to Tulln, a Danube town known for its gardens and art. Altenwörth and Zwentendorf are among the towns you pass through before arriving at your destination on the south bank of the river.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
- The Danube Cycle Trail will be diverted in the Höhe Ringstraße area of Krems, due to necessary pipeline works. Please follow the diversion signposts in the Krems city area.
Krems is a center of wine, commerce, shopping, culture and education and has an enchanting location: The historical center (also part of the Wachau, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape) extends between the Danube and the vineyards of the Krems Valley. Steiner Tor, a town gate and landmark of Krems since 1480, attests to the eventful history here, as do the many burgher houses from the 16th c, when Protestant merchants brought the city great wealth. Stroll along Obere and Untere Landstrasse, pay a visit to the Early Gothic Gozzoburg, the Kunsthalle, or the caricature museum. An absolute highlight is the State Gallery of Lower Austria, inaugurated in 2019, which is located on the Kunstmeile Krems (a mile-long stretch of cultural attractions).
Soon after Krems you see another landscape on the horizon: a plateau known as Wagram. It is dominated by a patchwork of vineyards that give way to wavy fields and shady ravines carved out of the loess soil over millions of years by water. The deep loess creates perfect conditions for fine full-flavored, full-bodied wines, including the famed Grüner Veltliner but also the lesser known Roter Veltliner.
Vinothek Weritas is a wine shop in Kirchberg am Wagram that carries 250 wines by 50 top winemakers. Kirchberg also has an Alchemist Museum and Alchemist Park with permacultural plantings. Close by is the Pleyel Museum and Pleyel Culture Centre not far away in Ruppersthal. Ignaz Joseph Pleyel was the most famous favorite son of Wagram. He left this romantic wine village for Paris around 1800 to create a furor as a composer and piano builder. Visitors can explore Wagram on discovery tours that follow five themed cycling routes.
Finally, you arrive in Tulln. Right at the outskirts of the city you pass the premises of GARTEN TULLN, an ecological world of gardens unlike any other in Europe with over 70 show gardens plus a host of other attractions. At the Egon Schiele Museum, the Egon Schiele birthplace and the Egon Schiele Special Theme Trail, you can gain fascinating insights into the life of this internationally renowned painter. Tulln’s Donaulände is an attractively landscaped promenade along the Danube and takes you in a matter of minutes from one sight to the next, including the Stadtmuseum Tulln, which houses the Tulln Roman Museum, documents pertaining to the imperial convent as well as the Virtulleum interactive history museum.
