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The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall [ˈʁaɪnfal] ⓘ, a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe. [2] [3] [1] The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen (SH) and Zürich (ZH), between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH), next to the town of ...
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is a 1788 landscape painting by the French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] It shows a scene on the Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, near Schaffhausen, in Switzerland. Loutherbourg visited the country that year where he produced this work in the emerging style of Romanticism.
Rhine Falls at Neuhausen Neuhausen as seen from Rhine Falls Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Neuhausen am Rheinfall has an area, as of 2006 [update] , of 8.1 km 2 (3.1 sq mi). Of this area, 14.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 51.3% is forested.
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Neuhausen Rheinfall (German: Bahnhof Neuhausen Rheinfall) is a railway station in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen. The station opened on 13 December 2015, principally to serve the tourist attraction of the Rhine Falls, from which it takes its name.
One of the lines connects the town with the nearby Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Europe s largest waterfall, a tourist attraction. The official language of Schaffhausen is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Rhine Falls: Schaffhausen: Schaffhausen: Largest waterfalls in Europe (150 m wide, 23 m high) Mürrenbach Fall: Lauterbrunnental: Bern: Highest waterfall in Switzerland Engstligen Falls: Adelboden: Berne Foroglio Fall: Foroglio: Ticino Giessbach Falls: Brienz: Berne Reichenbach Falls: Meiringen: Berne: World famous thanks to Sherlock Holmes ...
The Rhine Glacier has mostly left traces that trend west: The eastern Swiss Plateau of the Thur Valley and Lake Constance. In certain places, there are characteristic drumlins of the base moraine, often clustered, especially in the highlands of Zürich, in the Hirzel region, in the Lake Constance region and between the Reuss Valley and the Lake ...