Radroute 84 – von Retz nach Tulln

This route does not make a loop. It starts in Retz on the town square, runs across the western Weinviertel and ends at the Danube bridge in Tulln, directly on the Danube Cycle Path. So at the end, you won't get off where you started, but at one of Europe's major cycling axes. The route passes the train stations of Retz, Ziersdorf, Großweikersdorf and Tulln. So you can shorten it wherever you want, and you can easily get away from any of these points. It is signposted in both directions; so the ride can also be started from Tulln to Retz – then you will have the gradient against you, but the wine villages await you as a reward at the end of the day.

Hardly out of Retz, the first eye-catcher appears: a windmill on the hills in front of the town. Afterwards, it heads southwest into the wine villages of Obermarkersdorf, Waitzendorf and Pulkau, a stretch through the Retzer Hügelland nature reserve, then on to Röschitz. Near Roseldorf, there is a rest stop at a wetland biotope with a stone table where a whole group can find a place. Shortly thereafter, the Great Bustard observation tower stands on a meadow.

Afterwards, the route turns south, via Sitzendorf an der Schmida and Ziersdorf to Großweikersdorf. Here you reach the axis of the Schmida valley. The terrain changes noticeably along the way. In the north, there are still hills and hollow paths, then it becomes more and more open, wider and wider, until the landscape south of Großweikersdorf merges into the plain. This is also where the Schmida river enters the Tullner Becken. The last section leads via Hippersdorf and Stetteldorf through the Wagram region to Tulln.