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| Coordinates: 47°42′N 8°38′E / 47.700°N 8.633°ECoordinates: 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 SP (as of January 2017) |
| • Parliament | Grosser Stadtrat with 36 members |
| Area | |
| • Total | 41.85 km2 (16.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation (Bahnhofstrasse) | 403 m (1,322 ft) |
| Population (December 2017) | |
| • Total | 36,332 |
| • Density | 868.15/km2 (2,248.49/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 |
| 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1190 or 1218–1330 1415–1501 | |||||||||
| Status | Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Schaffhausen | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• | betw 1190 and 1218 | ||||||||
• Pledged to Habsburgs | 1330 | ||||||||
• Bought independence | 1415 | ||||||||
| 1454 | |||||||||
• | 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 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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