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.

Attention: There is a short-term parking zone within the town center. Please park outside the main square.

Retz is located on the Czech border and is very well accessible by car via federal roads.

Retz is very well accessible by train coming from Vienna.
There is also a train connection from Znaim to Retz.

The route is suitable for:

• trekking bikes
• mountain bikes