Easy hikes and walks around Salmorth

Great view of the city

Loose cows and horses here.

Cozy place for a terrace.

A stand with seating.

Here are cows and horses roaming freely.

Beautiful walk through wet meadows on the acceptably paved dike; the cattle are actually standing right in the middle, as you can see in the photos.

Johanna Sebus (1791–1809) came from Brienen near Kleve. During a dam break in 1809, while flooding the Rhine, she first rescued her mother from the rising waters. In an attempt to save other lives, she ultimately perished herself. When her body was discovered three months later, the then sub-prefect in Kleve, Baron Karl Ludwig von Keverberg (1768–1841), initiated the construction of a memorial. The government of the French occupation of the Rhineland approved the proposal and had the monument erected in 1811. At the same time, Johanna Sebus was posthumously awarded the "White Rose," an honor established by Napoleon to be bestowed annually in every town and village within the French-occupied territories upon a particularly virtuous young woman. Johanna Sebus soon became a figure of collective memory in literature and music: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dedicated a ballad to her, and Franz Schubert composed a musical setting of this poem—albeit an unfinished one. In the 20th century, the musician and painter Béla Lajos (1929–2016) composed an opera for Johanna Sebus. To mark the 175th anniversary of her death in 1984, a Johanna Sebus Medal was established, awarded to individuals or institutions for "help in times of need." Architectural Description The memorial's form draws from the almost undecorated repertoire of a classicism that primarily employs stereometric, elementary forms. The taller-than-a-man, semicircular stele, made of bluestone, stands on a stepped cornice base and is backed by a semicircular stone bench. The front of the monument bears an inscription in French, above which is an inset medallion of white marble depicting a floating rose surrounded by twelve stars. The German translation of the French inscription on the back dates from 1953. It reads: “In memory of the seventeen-year-old beautiful and good girl from the village of Brienen, who perished on January 13, 1809, while helping to save lives during the ice floe on the Rhine and the great breach of the Cleverhamm dam.” The Johanna Sebus Memorial is owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and administered by the Düsseldorf District Government… (Fabian Kröning, Institute of Art History, University of Cologne, 2016) https://www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/KLD-298086

"The Cheese Museum at Gut Hogefeld - Drususdeich 201, 47533 Kleve Cheese was already being produced on the Lower Rhine in the 15th century. Over time, however, the knowledge of cheesemaking was lost, and cheese had to be expensively imported from the Dutch. It all began at Gut Hogefeld in 1825. Here, not only was the foundation laid for cheese production on the Lower Rhine, but also for the development of the Lower Rhine into one of the most important dairy regions in North Rhine-Westphalia. Credit for this belongs to Maria Reymer, a farmer's daughter from Kleve-Rindern, and her agriculturally and commercially astute father, the dike reeve Theodor Reymer. Since Theodor Reymer didn't believe the rumor that only milk from Dutch cows was suitable for cheesemaking, he sent his daughter Maria to relatives in Etten, Netherlands." A year later, Maria returned rich in knowledge and established the first farmstead cheese dairy on the Lower Rhine at the Hogefeld estate. Production of Lower Rhine semi-hard cheese in the Dutch style began as early as May 11, 1825. By the end of 1825, 4,300 pounds of cheese had been produced from the milk of ten cows, and it sold like hotcakes. This, however, aroused the suspicion of the Prussian Main Customs Office in Kranenburg. Only after a tireless struggle with the authorities was Theodor Reymer granted freedom of trade on January 1, 1827. Maria and Theodor Reymer readily shared their knowledge, and thus farmstead cheese dairies and later numerous large-scale dairies sprang up all over the Lower Rhine. https://www.niederrhein-tourismus.de/attraktion/das-kaesemuseum-auf-gut-hogefeld-7a5282564a