Schaffhausen | |
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Coordinates: 47°42′N 8°38′E / 47.700°N 8.633°E | |
Country | Switzerland |
Canton | Schaffhausen |
District | (None in canton of Schaffhausen) |
Government | |
• Executive | Stadtrat with 5 members |
• Mayor | Stadtpräsident (list) Peter Neukomm SPS/PSS (as of January 2017) |
• Parliament | Grosser Stadtrat with 36 members |
Area | |
• Total | 41.78 km2 (16.13 sq mi) |
Elevation (Bahnhofstrasse) | 403 m (1,322 ft) |
Population (31 December 2018)[2] | |
• Total | 36,587 |
• Density | 880/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (Central European Time) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time) |
Postal code(s) | 8200, 8203, 8207, 8208, 8231 Hemmental |
SFOS number | 2939 |
Localities | Schaffhausen, Breite, Gruben, Buchthalen, St. Niklausen, Herblingen, Hauental, Hemmental |
Surrounded by | Beringen, Büsingen am Hochrhein (DE-BW), Büttenhardt, Dörflingen, Feuerthalen (ZH), Flurlingen (ZH), Merishausen, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Stetten, Thayngen |
Twin towns | Sindelfingen (Germany), Singen am Hohentwiel (Germany), Dobrich (Bulgaria) |
Website | www Profile (in German), SFSO statistics |
Imperial City of Schaffhausen Reichsstadt Schaffhausen | |||||||||
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1190 or 1218–1330 1415–1501 | |||||||||
Status | Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
Capital | Schaffhausen | ||||||||
Government | Republic | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Gained Reichsfreiheit | betw 1190 and 1218 | ||||||||
• Pledged to Habsburgs | 1330 | ||||||||
• Bought independence | 1415 | ||||||||
1454 | |||||||||
• Joined Switzerland | 1501 | ||||||||
1648 | |||||||||
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Imperial Abbey of All Saints in Schaffhausen Reichskloster Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen | |||||||||
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1080–1529 | |||||||||
Status | Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
Capital | Schaffhausen | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Consecrated (Leo IX) | 22 November 1049 | ||||||||
1080 | |||||||||
• Gained Hiltensweiler lands | 1122–1389 | ||||||||
1454 | |||||||||
• City joined Switz. | 1501 | ||||||||
• Converted to monastery and cathedral church | 1524 | ||||||||
1529 | |||||||||
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Schaffhausen is a town in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name. It has a population of about 36,000[3] as 2016.
The old portion of the town has many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos and sculpture, as well as the impressive old canton fortress, the Munot. A train runs out of town to the nearby Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Europe's largest waterfall, a tourist attraction.
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