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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 ...
Schaffhausen was a city-state in the Middle Ages; it is documented that it struck its own coins starting in 1045.It was then documented as Villa Scafhusun. [5] Around 1049, Count Eberhard von Nellenburg founded a Benedictine monastery which led to the development of a community.
Schaffhausen railway station (German: Bahnhof Schaffhausen) is a railway station in Schaffhausen, the capital of the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen. [4] The station is jointly owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) and Deutsche Bahn (DB), and is served by trains of both national operators, as well as trains of the Swiss regional operator Thurbo.
The conversion of the Schaffhausen Waldfriedhof–Neuhausen Zentrum tramway to trolleybus operation was the consequence of a popular vote held on 13 September 1964.The trams providing the service at the time were between 43 and 63 years old, the oldest being from the opening of the tramway in 1901. [2]
The Schaffhausen S-Bahn is an S-Bahn network in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and the German state of Baden-Württemberg (Konstanz and Waldshut districts). It comprises three services and began operation in 2015. Services are operated by SBB GmbH, Swiss Federal Railways' German subsidiary, and Thurbo.
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.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Schaffhausen from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. It is sorted by municipality and contains 47 individual buildings, 7 collections and 18 archaeological finds.
Schaffhausen Schaffhausen / Schaffhouse 1501 Schaffhausen: 7,244 87,569 83,107: 298: 278 26 German: 15 AR Appenzell Ausserrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden / Appenzell Outer-Rhodes 1513 (as Appenzell until 1597/1999) Herisau [note 8] 3,190 57,601 55,309: 243: 228 20 German: 16 AI Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Innerrhoden / Appenzell Inner-Rhodes