History lesson in the saddle.

Spectacle, there were always on the Danube: Where once the Emperor Barbarossa gathered tens of thousands of soldiers are now hundreds of cyclists on the road. The helmets are colorful, and their enemies are others - on the shore waiting for huge swarms of mosquito prey.

 

Between Schlögen and Aschach are the darkest places of the Danube, the mysterious depths and the dark hills. Who here is rising from the saddle, helmet decreases the kühlrippenbesetzten and constantly talking stocks and diseases Radler group can move on, who for a few minutes in the sub-timber is hidden and silent, which are the secrets of the old, wild river reveal.

Is not there a few meters to a tree leaned a shooter? He holds the bow forward, breath and a young deer in sight. Behind him roars of electricity, from the distant voices are heard, but the animal can not disturb. The shooter will replace the handle, the arrow sirrt it, the deer disappears in the grove. This is clear: Today, there are fish.

Fish is abundant in the river, but when a hunter shot a noble animal, and then remains for him is often a good bit left over, tripe, or brains. The Emperor can not eat everything. The Emperor? Which emperor? Remove any. Almost all Konrad, all of Charles and Henry were here all along, young and old.

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Even today come Konrad, Charles and Henry along here, but also Elsbeth and Hannelore. Almost all wear clothes, as colorful as it is one worthy emperor and helmets on the head as the fight. Also they do not travel alone, some are in groups of 50 or more on the banks of the Danube on the way. Cyclists, cyclists and cyclists, most of them belong to the more experienced generation.

This is due to two things: one is the section of the Danube between Passau and Linz the best, wildest, most surprising river stretch in our latitudes, but it always goes downhill. And who wants to return, it has been easy: on the whole route of 100 kilometers, there are just 50 meters in height difference.

Insects as Quälgeister

In a quiet bend of the Danube, where the water is calm in large swirls flowing, grab the fish today, to grasp, according to mosquitoes, as it always did. In the floating masses Quälgeister as a gray cloud over the late Danube. At this quiet place near the Schlögener noose, where the river on his way to the east a pirouette turns, can be a bit of the times nachspüren than the heart of Europe, street traders and warriors, kings and emperors.

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As early as Roman ruins still smoked and Central Europe as it was dark Hagens beard, came the awful proud Kriemhild along here on the way, Ms. Etzel to be and then to the murderer. 1400 years later, Franz Joseph at the Danube near Linz in his Sisi Reception and led her home. The bloodshed ended. And in between? Except Waffenklirren girls laugh. How might it have geklungen than 1719 Karl Alexander von Württemberg "Moidle ship" sent to the Balkans with 150 young women, his remaining in the Banat, where settling officers should marry? (Descendants still live in Romania and Hungary.) Your laughter and anticipation of the complaints about the uncertain future are in the river sediments trapped.

Ernst Neweklowsky, Linzer engineer who has recorded everything in his life's work on the upper Danube, a gigantic compendium of everything on ships, cargoes, voyages occurred, plus all the legends and curses of the boatmen, the customs and rights of the songs, the River surrounded in his quest for completeness forgot Neweklowsky not, poetry and prose around the river for water and navigational accuracy to be verified.