The best city hikes and walks around Diessenhofen

Fountain with the town hall in the background

A cyclist pedals through a misty path, he then rolls into the Alpine land. Full of chain squeaks and a round helmet, he seeks forgiveness, saddles his mouth. He pedals, panting, oh so quiet, the mountains laugh, but in their own way. He pedals, silently whirring, his speedometer blinks: "Still far, still winding." He rides through forests, over garages, past cheese, bread, and days. "I came here to atone," he pants, "forgive me, if you grant it kindly!" The first mountain, he almost slips, the steering jams, the bike makes a feast. But Swiss charm, so friendly and light, calls: "Clothe yourself in patience, not pain." In a village, awake at the clock tower, stands a bell, making the day strong with its chimes and the heart wide: "What did you do wrong? Tell me honestly, my dress!" The cyclist breathes, looks at the view, the peaks glow in the sunlight. "I owe no one anymore, oh dear, just a good story, hooray!" They laugh, hand him cheese, bread, a pedal back, the world becomes big. He pays his fine with humor, and dark clouds gather. "You don't need to wander for penance," says an old woman: "Enjoy the meal!" He pedals again with fresh strength, and rides through Switzerland, the beautiful, many. So he cycles, with a happy smile, from the Jura to Lake Murten-Lor. A pilgrimage of penance? No, just fun, because Switzerland forgives—with a chocolate bonus.

A beautiful old town with many beautiful buildings.

A very nice place.

How imposing this fortress is, perched above the Rhine.

The Rheinbad Schaffhausen is located directly on the Rhine below the old town and is a popular meeting point in summer. The historic river pool offers changing rooms, sun terraces, and access to the clear water. Brave swimmers let themselves drift with the current, while others relax and enjoy the view of the old town, the Munot, and passing boats. The Rheinbad combines bathing fun, tradition, and a unique river landscape in the middle of the city.

The All Saints' Monastery, or Salvator Monastery, in Schaffhausen was a Benedictine abbey founded by Eberhard VI of Nellenburg in 1049. The minster is now a Protestant Reformed parish church. "On July 10, 1045, Emperor Henry III granted Count Eberhard of Nellenburg the right to mint coins in his villa Scâfhusun. A few years later, around 1050, Count Eberhard founded a Benedictine monastery in the Schachwald forest, between the town of Schaffhausen and the Rhine." On November 22, 1049, Pope Leo IX, an uncle of the founder, consecrated "an altar in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the so-called Resurrection Chapel or Erhard Chapel," and thus likely also the future site of the monastery. [...] By 1050, the monastery was already under construction." Heinz Gallmann assumes "that the monastery, in accordance with this pope's ideology, constituted a separate legal entity, subject to the pope's protection, and that the rights of the founding family were thus limited to the hereditary patronage and the appointment of the abbot." In 1064, the construction of the Nellenburg family's proprietary monastery, founded by Eberhard von Nellenburg and his wife Ita, was completed under the direction of the master builder and court chaplain Luitpald. It was dedicated to the Salvator (Latin for 'Savior'), the Holy Cross, the Virgin Mary, and all the saints. This first abbey was modeled on sacred buildings from Cluniac Burgundy. The monastery, to which a leper house had already been added at its inception, experienced rapid growth. "The minster of this proprietary monastery of the Nellenburgs was consecrated in 1064 by Bishop Rumald of Constance and placed under the protection of the Roman See by Pope Alexander II." .... Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Allergesundheiten_(Schaffhausen)

Suburb 43, the Great Cage, with preserved 17th-century facade paintings (depicting the triumphal procession of the victorious Turkish-Mongol conqueror Tamerlane over the caged Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I after the Battle of Ankara in 1402). Source: https://www.stadtbild-deutschland.org/forum/index.php?thread/6201-schaffhausen-galerie/