Circular hike close to the lake and on the panoramic heights of the Schienerberg! The municipality of Gaienhofen with its districts of Hemmenhofen, Horn and Gundholzen is located on the Hornspitze of the Höri peninsula in Lake Constance. The 4 sub-towns are situated over 10 kilometres directly on the lakeshore and are excellent places to relax thanks to their Mediterranean location. The varied landscape with forest and lake, orchards and vegetable gardens around the 708 m high Schienerberg is largely under nature or landscape protection and is ideal for hiking. On the opposite shore of Lake Zell from Radolfzell lies the smallest, most rural and quietest Höri farming village of Gundholzen. You won't find a landing stage, church, cemetery, restaurant or shopping facilities here; the old town hall is now the fire station. The inhabitants of Gundholzen can find all this in Horn. Gundholzen belonged to the diocese of Constance, which is why the red cross of the diocese of Constance appears on the coat of arms. Since 1974, it has been incorporated into Gaienhofen with Horn and Hemmenhofen and belongs to the "Mittlere Höri". The Hotel & Gasthaus Seehörnle in Horn, where people with and without disabilities work together, is well worth a stop. It is worth taking a short detour via a small dirt track on the right up the slope through light-flooded orchards to the late Gothic hall church of Horn with its blunt church tower that dominates from afar. The Grand Duke of Baden, Friedrich I, is said to have once commented while standing next to the church: If I were not the Grand Duke of Baden, I would want to be the parish priest of Horn! The Horn vicarage was the summer residence of the prince-bishops of Constance! Hans Leip, the author of the soldiers' song "Lilli Marlen", was buried in the church cemetery in 1983; he lived in Wangen in the 1950s. A visit to the Hesse Museum in Gaienhofen or the Hesse House in Gaienhofen is highly recommended. In 1997, the sculptor Peter Lenk created the sculpture "Dix-Kurve" across the main road in Gaienhofen, with a figure height of 2.60 m and a total height of 8.00 m. The Dix Museum in Hemmenhofen is another 2 km away! Before you start this circular walk, walk approx. 200 m down to the shore of Lake Zell, where you will find the Alfred Beer House , an idiosyncratic oasis of peace with a small bathing beach, built in 1928 by Pastor Alfred Beer + 1952. As a co-operator at Constance Minster in the years 1920-1923, Beer always remembered the lake and so he bought a plot of land on the shore of Gundholzen from his own funds to build a holiday home for young people. After his death, the building went to the Catholic Youth Organisation St. Bernhard e.V. and is still primarily available to Catholic youth groups today. On the near-natural shores of Lake Constance, the coot winters in flocks of up to 10,000 animals and the marsh and litter meadows are home to the orchid, orchids and lung gentian.
