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Breisach am Rhein

Schänzle Steps – Old Town of Breisach am Rhein loop from Breisach

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Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald

Breisach am Rhein

Schänzle Steps – Old Town of Breisach am Rhein loop from Breisach

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Schänzle Steps – Old Town of Breisach am Rhein loop from Breisach

01:37

6.10km

60m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 30, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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1.78 km

Fountain at Breisach Market Square

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Market square where the weekly market takes place, whose water features provide a nice cooling effect in the summer.

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2.46 km

Eckartsberg

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A wonderful viewpoint nestled among the vineyards, overlooking the old town of Breisach am Rhein, as well as offering panoramic views of the Vosges Mountains and the Black Forest.

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3.23 km

Gutgesellentor (Breisach City Gate)

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A beautiful historic city gate at the entrance to the middle town. From here, the path leads up to St. Stephen's Cathedral.

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3.43 km

Schänzle Steps

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Stairs up and down between Münsterbergstraße and Münsterplatz

Medieval church path (built in 633), where a small fortification was built in 1633

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4.07 km

Radbrunnenturm (Wheel Well Tower)

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The tower is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city. Its rear is adorned with the modern artwork "Radbühne," a work by Breisach artist Helmut Lutz from 2013. The tower itself houses a 41-meter-deep drinking water well and regularly provides space for exhibitions of all kinds for the Breisach Art Circle.

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4.24 km

View of the Rhine from the Minster

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There are many benches in the cathedral's courtyard, some with views of the Rhine.

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4.35 km

Europa Reaching for the Stars Sculpture

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Already in 1950, 13 years before the Elysée Treaty, the town of Breisach set a trend-setting peace sign with its European sculpture. Solemnly unveiled on 9 July 2000, she pointed to the importance of the European vote in 1950. The survey, "What do you think about the merger of all European peoples into a European federal state?" Answered the citizens of Münsterstadt in the largely still war-torn and rebuilding Breisach pleasing positive: With the Europabrunnen at the marketplace, a European flag and the "European light" On the Eckartsberg and the European sculpture on the Münsterplatz, the European project was to be artistically visible and supported artistically in the public space.
The study of H.G. Wunderlich from 1970 "Where the bull carried Europa", which many Greeks in the palace of King Minos in Knossos at that time busy, has to be rethought: Did not God Zeus in bull shape, the Princess Europe not to Crete but brought to Breisach? Individual heads above the bull sculpture seem to be intensely occupied with this myth and its contradictions.
Source: staudi.fr.schule-bw.de/index.php/der-muensterberg-in-breisach

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4.52 km

Old Town of Breisach am Rhein

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The hill on which Breisach is situated—the Münsterberg—was located in the Rhine until Johann Gottfried Tulla's correction of the Rhine during floods. In ancient times, it was the seat of a Celtic prince. Later, the Romans built a fortress here, and the Hohenstaufen dynasty founded Breisach in its present form in 1158.

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6.10 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.00 km

1.90 km

609 m

370 m

206 m

Surfaces

3.35 km

2.68 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 26 June

41°C

23°C

12 %

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Schänzle Steps – Old Town of Breisach am Rhein loop from Breisach

Fountain at Breisach Market Square

Eckartsberg

Gutgesellentor (Breisach City Gate)

Schänzle Steps

Radbrunnenturm (Wheel Well Tower)

View of the Rhine from the Minster

Europa Reaching for the Stars Sculpture

Old Town of Breisach am Rhein

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