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Bargen, Schaffhausen

The northernmost point of the country is situated in the municipality, at Oberbargen.

Beringen

Beringen, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.

Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen

In exchange for this renunciation, Berthold gained territorial concessions in what is now southern Germany and northern Switzerland, consolidating Zähringer hold over the Ortenau, the Breisgau, Schaffhausen, Breisach and All Saints' Abbey.

Canton of Schaffhausen

The Rhine Falls are the largest waterfalls in Europe and lie on the border of the canton of Schaffhausen and the canton of Zurich.

Casino Luxembourg

With a view to using the building for art exhibitions during Luxembourg City's year as European Cultural Capital in 1995, the Swiss artist Urs Raussmüller of Schaffhausen's Hallen für Neue Kunst was charged with adapting the casino into an exhibition space for a limited period by creating substantially more hanging space than could be provided by the walls in the various rooms.

Clara Thalmann

In 1932 Clara Thalmann became editor of Arbeiter-Zeitung in Schaffhausen, working closely with Trotskyists and Left-Communists.

Freedom Party of Switzerland

The party enjoyed success in the cantonal parliaments, particularly in St. Gallen, Thurgau and Schaffhausen).

Frienisberg Abbey

Finally it controlled the patronage and the right to appoint parish priests in Rapperswil, Seedorf, Nieder-Lyss, Bargen, Schüpfen and Grossaffoltern.

International Watch Company

After the death of J. Rauschenbach-Schenk in 1905, his wife, two daughters and their husbands, Ernst Jakob Homberger (director of G. Fischer AG in Schaffhausen) and Dr. Carl Jung (psychoanalyst and psychiatrist), took over the watch factory as an open trading company by the name of the UHRENFABRIK VON J. RAUSCHENBACH'S ERBEN.

Johann Amman

Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман (22 December 1707 Schaffhausen - 14 December 1741 St Petersburg), was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg.

Johann Konrad Ammann

Johann Konrad Amman (Schaffhausen, Switzerland 1669 – closed to Leiden, Netherlands 1724) was a Swiss physician and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons.

Jürg Fröhlich

Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

After the Congress of Vienna, Karl Alexander took over the Hessian and Thuringian postal services, as well as those in the Hanseatic League cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck, and Schaffhausen.

Louis Philippe I

He first moved to Switzerland under an assumed name, and met up with the Countess of Genlis and his sister Adélaïde at Schaffhausen.

Marco Aratore

He made his international U-20 debut as substitute on 6 September 2010 in the 2:3 home defeat in the Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen, against German U-20 team.

Martin Eisengrein

Some have been edited by Johann Nepomuk Brischar in "Die kathol. Kanzelredner Deutschlands" (Schaffhausen, 1867–70), I, 434-545.

Nagold Valley Railway

Between Calw and Horb, long-distance trains from Stuttgart also ran on the Württemberg Black Forest Railway to Singen and from there to Lake Constance or Schaffhausen.

NanoAndMore

In 2005, NanoWorld Holding AG from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, acquired and integrated NanoAndMore into the NanoWorld group composed of Nanotechnology companies.

Peter Alan Rayner

He is survived by his Swiss wife Madeleine from Schaffhausen, who caused Rayner to learn Schweizerdeutsch (Swiss German), four children and eight grandchildren.

Romanshorn

Romanshorn railway station, opened in 1855, forms the junction between the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway, the Schaffhausen–Rorschach railway and the Romanshorn–Nesslau Neu St. Johann railway.

Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen hosts some well-known industrial companies like Georg Fischer (piping systems, machine tools and automotives), an internationally reputed manufacturer of watches (IWC), pharmaceutical industry (Cilag, founded by Bernhard Joos) and BB Biotech (biotechnologies).

Schaffhausen Communication Group

The German Advertising Agency Schaffhausen Communication Group (SCG) was founded in 1978 and is located in the cities of Elmshorn, Hamburg and Gremmelin.

Swiss National Day

Since the mid-19th century, the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen has illuminated its 25 meter high waterfalls for special events.

Swiss playing cards

In this design, a central rectangle on the aces of Schellen and Schilten were used for the text "Schaffhausen & Hasle" (the location of the presses) and "Spielkartenfabrik", respectively.

Tuttlingen station

It was very conveniently situated on the so-called Swiss Post Road (Schweizer Poststraße), a major north-south road link from Stuttgart to the Swiss border near Schaffhausen.


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