Up to the Wissegg

The route mostly leads over paved roads and well-maintained forest paths – and is therefore easily walkable even in winter.  

The magnificent Zellweger palaces and the church built by Hans Ulrich Grubenmann provide the backdrop of the Landsgemeindeplatz in the middle of the village of Trogen. Around it stand stately bourgeois houses and somewhat further away modest weavers' cottages. All are witnesses of the time when the textile trade flourished in Trogen in the 18th century and shaped the daily life of the villagers. There are also the farmhouses and farms in the remote hilly landscape, which indicate the former small-scale farming with home work – usually a loom stood in the cellar. And as an example of the building material wood, which played a major role back then, the sawmill in Grosse Säge stands.

Text & images Jolanda Spengler