Wine Cycle Route Weinviertel DAC

Description

Accompanied by vineyards, cycle through the hilly Retzer Land – exciting insights into romantic wine cellar lanes and historic settlement sites await the ambitious pleasure cyclist on this full-day route.

Starting point of the tour

Retz Main Square / Znaimerstraße

Destination point of the tour

Retz Main Square / Znaimerstraße

Route description Wine Cycle Route Weinviertel DAC

The “Wine Route with Insights – Weinviertel DAC” starts at the historic main square in Retz. Here you should definitely visit the Retz Experience Cellar, the largest historic wine cellar in Austria. Passing the city’s landmark, the windmill, you cycle over gentle hills with vineyards and continue via Waitzendorf, with the first rest opportunity, to the central town of Pulkau. Particularly worth seeing here is the St. Michael’s Church. The route then leads to the pilgrimage site and rest opportunity “Pulkauer Bründl”, with its protected chapel. Via Rafing and Groß-Reipersdorf, you finally reach Röschitz. Here you can enjoy regional delicacies from the Weinviertel at the “Weberkeller” and visit a vaulted cellar with clay carvings.
From Röschitz, you have the option to shorten the cycle route directly to Zellerndorf via Deinzendorf. The regular route continues via Roseldorf to Sandberg. As a special attraction, you can overlook the “Celtic Settlement at Sandberg”, Austria’s largest Celtic open-air settlement, from the observation tower. Due to its location in an undeveloped area, it is particularly well preserved.
The cycle route continues to Platt, where the Stone Age Cellar Museum, with its unique finds, invites you to rest. The wine cellar lane “Nußwald” is also worth a visit! Then it goes on to Zellerndorf. Here awaits a particularly idyllic ensemble of developed wine architecture – the wine cellar lane “Maulavern”. If needed, you can comfortably return to Retz by train from here (boarding in Platt or Zellerndorf).
In Pillersdorf, the “Öhlberg Wine Cellar Lane”, one of the most beautiful in the whole region, invites you to linger and enjoy before returning to the starting point of the route.