The best city hikes and walks around Husemersee

Fountain with the town hall in the background

A very beautiful building.

A very nice place.

The Rhine Bath in Schaffhausen is located directly on the Rhine below the old town and is a popular meeting place in summer. This historic river bathing area offers changing rooms, sun terraces, and access to the clear water. Brave swimmers can drift with the current, while others relax and enjoy the view of the old town, the Munot fortress, and passing boats. The Rhine Bath combines swimming fun, tradition, and a unique river landscape right in the heart 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/

The Schwabentor (Swabian Gate) in Schaffhausen's old town was first documented in 1361 as the "Neuturm" (New Tower). It formed the northern boundary of the medieval city fortifications against Swabia. Today, the Schwabentor provides access to the suburbs. On the western side of the Schwabentor, a section of the old city wall with its parapet walk and the "Finsterwaldturm" (Dark Forest Tower) corner tower remains. In 1555, a bastion, the so-called Zwinger, was built in front of the tower. In 1607/1608, this bastion was replaced by a larger outer ward with two inner courtyards and two round towers. The two round towers were demolished in 1867. In 1932, a fire completely destroyed the interior of the tower and the mansard roof with its small bell tower, which dated from 1782. Between 1933 and 1935, the architect Wolfgang Müller redesigned the Schwabentor. The artist Carl Roesch painted frescoes in the clock niches. The painting on the south side is called "Cosmos" (a man and woman in the cosmic cycle between death and demons, with a flame-guarding angel protecting the couple). The painting on the north side is called "Cycle" (the four ages of man in the sequence of the clock's inexorable passage). Since the fire, the tower has been covered by a tent-like roof. A Schaffhausen goat, designed by Richard Petraschke, serves as a weathervane at the top. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwabentor_(Schaffhausen)

By Kurt Bruckner in the Rhine