30.1.– 1.2.2026 | Austria
WINTER MEETING at the castle ruin Prandegg
LAST EDITION !!!
Date: Fri., 30 January to Sun., 1 February 2026
Upper Austria, Mühlviertel, A-4274 Schönau, Prandegg 3, in and around the castle tavern of Franz Leitner's www.taverne-prandegg.at
In 2013, we organized a small winter event for sidecar at the tavern on the Prandegg castle ruins for the first time, focusing on the fun of driving together through the winter landscape of the eastern Mühlviertel. 13 years later, the last meeting will take place at Prandegg Castle, as tavern owner Franz is retiring.
So, take advantage of this last opportunity and celebrate with us! sidecars others than Ural are also welcome. The famous (or infamous) Saturday ride (starting at 10:30 a.m.) can be truly challenging for non-Ural motorcycles; pushing, pulling, and sweating are to be expected. Good tires, riding skills, and a lack of care for the equipment are required.
We prefer difficult weather conditions, and we enjoy pushing motorcycles, drivers, and passengers to their limits.
Please let us know at office@ural.at if you would like to participate in the 2026 winter meeting so we can tell the host what to expect. There is no participation fee, there is plenty of space for camping around the tavern, and wood for a campfire is available.
Overnight accommodations are also available indoors, either in one of the three guest rooms or in the castle museum, where we can improvise a dormitory: please bring a bed, sleeping bag, or a mat!
But there is also complete luxury: 8 great sleeping bunks, see
https://www.taverne-prandegg.at/uebernachten
16 people can sleep comfortably here, including a snoring competition.
Please book these bunks directly with us at office@ural.at.
Onkel Peda offers rooms very close by: https://www.ferienhof-kriechbaumer.at/
There are hotels in nearby Bad Zell and Unterweißenbach.
Directions: It is a nice tradition that participants from the west or south come to us in Marchtrenk for lunch on Friday and then we drive together from Marchtrenk along small, unknown roads to Prandegg.
Here the report from URAL Winter Meeting castle ruin Prandegg
2nd – 4th February 2018
We like to remember: as always a motorcycle ride on detours, bridleways, dirt roads and trails is planned, the very popular path through the forest behind the castle was from the first higher slope no longer passable – too much snow! We took another easier route 400 meters after leaving the castle.
After 1 km drive a steep descent in deep snow was planned. After the departure everyone should wait for each other. The first fifteen motorcycles in the column wait in the deep snow after the descent. They wait and wait and no one comes after.
After a long wait we drive around the castle to look for the rest of the group. We do not find anyone. We drive to the start of the exit, maybe the rest of the group is already there. There is nobody here. After an hour, the nervousness increases. Almost the whole group of sidecar drivers disappeared. Telephone calls begin, further search parties are starting to search. There are indications from the population that sidecars were seen here and there.
After two hours, the missing sidecars finally drive up the mountain, in time for lunch. What happened? Right at the first little mountain, so almost at the start of the exit participant number 6 got stuck in the snow. Thereby the group divides and drives to the not passable rise and fails. In a collective action, the group helps each other, to get individually to the mountain. One and a half hours hard work with the sidecars in the forest. An action that will be unforgettable for the sidecar drivers. This adventure was unfortunately not planned.
In the afternoon there was a highlight: The driveway to the castle can now be traveled individually and the URAL sidecars forms a queue. A BMW X3 comes along the road and wants to pass the queue. The BMW X3 drives into the ditch and hangs in the snow. The BMW four-wheel drive luxury vehicle can not get out of the ditch! With our URAL spades we remove the snow around the drive wheels and push and pull the BMW on the rope of a URAL Ranger out of the ditch.
A beautiful picture: a BMW four-wheel drive on the rope of a URAL Ranger.
It was very funny at this winter meeting at the castle ruin Prandegg.
