Instead of waiting at the Garage for a towing-hitch to be fixed on our car, we take a walk along the Limmat and a hidden natural paradise reveals its secrets in the midst of hectic everyday life. The riverside path takes us in the immediate vicinity of the walls of the "Maris Stella" Cistercian monastery, founded in 1227. Exotic scents from the three-hectare facility with its 120 gardens envelop us as we walk past.

Soon we come to the Paul Fischer Bridge, also lovingly known as Gwagglibrugg (or wobbly bridge). It got this name because it was only stiffened sideways but not lengthways and therefore rocked a lot, especially when several people were using the bridge at the same time. The wobbling suspension bridge between the monastery peninsula and the Klosterrüti area is one of the oldest wire rope suspension bridges in Switzerland. It was commissioned in 1863 by the owner of the Wettingen spinning mill, Johann Wild. The bridge enabled him to build lodgings for his workers along the Limmat and the workers could still reach his factory quickly and easily. Since the safety of the bridge decreased and could no longer be guaranteed, it was lovingly restored in the early eighties keeping the old construction elements.