Easy hikes and walks in Eastern Switzerland

Beautiful promenade - Rhine bank - Stein am Rhein Canton Schaffhausen 🇨🇭

Welcome to the Steiner Liliputbahn! We operate a regular train service from April to mid-October and on the Sundays of the 2nd - 4th Advent. Treat yourself and your children to an approximately 10-minute ride along the beautiful Rhine River with a coal-fired model steam locomotive or a historic model electric locomotive, the "Krokodil". We look forward to your visit. Source: https://steinerliliputbahn.ch/ https://steinerliliputbahn.ch/trailer/Trailer_2024.mp4

The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen houses a rich collection of paintings and sculptures from the late Middle Ages to the present day. The collection focuses on 17th-century Dutch painting, 19th-century art from Switzerland, Germany and France, Appenzell peasant painting and international modern art. The current museum building was opened in 1877.

The Dreisparten-Theater St. Gallen (opera, operetta, musical, drama, children's theater and dance) is considered the oldest existing professional theater in Switzerland. An initial amateur theater emerged here as early as the Middle Ages around the year 900; the driving forces were the monks Tutilo and Notker Balbulus. Because the dominant church in the monastery town was opposed to the theater, no regular theater operations could gain a foothold until the beginning of the 19th century. A permanent theater was not established until 1801. The new theater building by Claude Paillard was inaugurated in 1968. The consistently implemented architectural basic idea is the regular hexagon and thus the 120-degree angle. From 2020 to 2023, the theater building was completely renovated for 48.6 million Swiss francs (a good 53 million euros). Since 2000, the Symphony Orchestra St. Gallen and the former Stadttheater St. Gallen have been operating under "Konzert und Theater St. Gallen".

The low row of houses in Zeughausgasse has a special charm. Its cozy atmosphere is enchanting.

Since 1983, the Collegiate Church and Cathedral of St. Gallen (actually Collegiate Church of St. Gallus and Otmar) and the entire Abbey District have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The baroque new building of the Benedictine monastery church, built between 1755 and 1766, stands where Saint Gallus is said to be buried. From 720 onwards, Abbot Otmar organised the construction work around the crypt, and his successor Gozbert began the construction of the new monastery church from 820 onwards. The construction of the Collegiate Church in its present form - it is one of the last monumental sacred buildings of the late Baroque period - was planned by Gabriel Loser and Johann Caspar Bagnato. Its two 68-metre-high towers tower above the old town of St. Gallen.

The legend of the Griffin, a fearsome mythical creature, inspired Willy Koch's mural from 1943 on this old town house. According to ancient legend, the Griffin guards the hidden gold of the mountains. In Koch's painting, the giant bird clutches the treasures with its claws. Anyone who snatches a piece of it will meet certain death - as in the picture the greedy grabber, the flattering beauty, the king and the queen. Quite different are the people who do not grab their happiness, but work for it and beg for it: the monk, the peasants, the shepherds, who are depicted on the right side.

The two-story bay window on the "Haus zum Pelikan" dates from 1708. The house name "Zum Pelikan" was first mentioned in a document in 1733. The four-story building is now used as a café and residential building. The copper roof is crowned by a golden pelican. He tears open his chest to soak his three young with blood. His nest is formed from a crown of thorns. The bird symbolizes "self-sacrificing charity", the crown of thorns the suffering of Christ.