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Schaffhauser Kantonalbank is a Swiss cantonal bank that serves and is based in Schaffhausen. It is wholly owned by the Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen and serves the area with six branches and ten ATMs. The bank offers both public and commercial banking services including savings, cards, real estate and investments. [2] [3]
Schaffhausen is located in a finger of Swiss territory surrounded on three sides by Germany. On 1 April 1944, Schaffhausen suffered a bombing raid by aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces, which strayed from German airspace into neutral Switzerland due to navigation errors. Air raid sirens had often sounded in the past, without an ...
On 11 July 1291, Heinrich Ritter, a citizen of Schaffhausen, sold a large estate, called the "Kehlhof", to the monastery. Five years later, on 20 December 1296, Heinrich, the Pastor of Zurzach and Merishausen and his brother, Ulrich of Schaffhausen sold another estate in Beringen, "The Bonstetten", to the same Monastery.
PSP Swiss Property was founded by the insurance company Zurich Insurance Group in 1999 and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange in an initial public offering (IPO) in March 2000. Ever since, the company has focused exclusively, as a pure play real estate company, on commercial properties in Switzerland.
The bank's legal name changed multiple times by incorporating the names of the senior personally liable partners. As of 2013, the bank's name was Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers, Gesellschafter Bruderer, Hummler, Tolle & Co. [7] At the time of its closing, it was the oldest bank in Switzerland and the 13th oldest in the world.
Stein am Rhein (abbreviated as Stein a. R.) [3] is a historic town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The town's medieval centre retains the ancient street plan. The site of the city wall, and the city gates are preserved, though the former city wall now consists of houses.
Schaffhausen became a full member of the Old Swiss Confederation in 1501. [5] The first railroad came to Schaffhausen in 1857. In 1944, Schaffhausen suffered from a bombing raid by United States Army Air Forces planes that accidentally strayed from Germany into neutral Switzerland. The cantonal constitution was written in 1876 and revised in 1895.
Beggingen has an area, as of 2006, of 12.6 km 2 (4.9 sq mi). Of this area, 50.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 45.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).