Portrait

According to the song by Dieter Wiesmann Schaffhausen is just a small town. But what a town! Between Munot, Rhine Falls, Randen and Klettgau lies a medieval little place with an irresistible attraction. And, ten minutes away, a youth hostel in a small castle. At one time the meeting point for writers and painters, today it is open to all connoisseurs of the art of living.

Hessestube and tower rooms

"A dilapidated old manor house, with unkept garden paths, moss-covered bench seats, crumbling steps and an impenetrably overgrown park". That was how in 1914 Hermann Hesse described the small castle Belair in his novel "Rosshalde". His friend and owner of the castle, Hans Sturzenegger, a painter, provided the main character Johann Veraguth.
Fifty years later, the 16th-century manor house became the youth hostel. And today, freely adapting Hesse's words, it looks like this: A magnificently decked-out, striking small castle, with large meadows, romantic bench seats under mighty plane trees, narrow and winding stairs to plush rooms and an extensive, well-tended park.

Member benefits

Your local discounts

(Available all the year round at the hostel reception)

• Reduced tickets for busses VBSH for families as from 3 over night stays

Your member benefits

• within Switzerland
• all over the world

Getting here

From the station15 minutes on foot via Hintersteig and Schützenhaus. By bus No. 3 direction Sommerwies to the “Wiesli” stop or by bus No. 6 direction Neuhausen to the “Hallenbad” stop.

From the town centre by car in the direction of Breite. Free car parking 100 metres from the youth hostel.