* This work in turn cites the biographies by Heeren ( 1809 ), Döring ( 1835 ) and Monnard ( 1839 ); and biographies in G. v. Wyss's Geschichte der Historiographie in der Schweiz ( Zürich, 1895 ), pp. 305 – 311, and in the Festschrift der Stadt Schaffhausen ( Schaffhausen, 1891 ), pt.

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* link = European route E41 –: Dortmund – Wetzlar – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Stuttgart – Schaffhausen – Winterthur – Zürich – Altdorf

Christoph Blocher ( born 11 October 1940, Schaffhausen, Switzerland ) is a Swiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council heading the Federal Department of Justice and Police ( 2004 – 2007 ).

Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg ( Schaffhausen, March 16, 1445 – Strasbourg March 10, 1510 ), was a Swiss-born priest, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century.

Bernold of Constance ( c. 1054 – Schaffhausen, September 16, 1100 ) was a chronicler and writer of tracts, and a defender of the Church reforms of Pope Gregory VII.

Johann Conrad Ammann ( December 24, 1724, Schaffhausen – October 11, 1811, Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss physician, naturalist, and collector.

From 1506, he was a teacher in Leutkirch, and subsequently in Pfullendorf, Schaffhausen, and – from 1522 – in Ravensburg.

Afterwards, Auberjonois realised some of his most significant works as a colourist inspired by Delacroix and then Rembrandt, including Hommage à l ’ Olympia ( 1943 ), Baigneuses dans la forêt ( 1944, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen ), Clown et petite écuyère ( 1946 ), Portrait de l ’ artiste ( 1948, Kunsthaus Aarau ), Fille dans la chambre rouge ( 1948, Museum zu Allerheiligen ), Nature morte au crâne ( 1950 ) and L ’ arène jaune ( 1953 – 54 ).

und seine Politik ( Schaffhausen 1867 ) and Geschichte Ostfrieslands ( Hanover, 1854 – 1858 ) show his dislike of Prussia.

* Crossing of the Rhine at Schaffhausen in two spans of 52 m and 59 m respectively, ( Hans Ulrich, 1757 );

After studying at Basel and Göttingen, he was successively pastor at Schaffhausen ( 1841 ), professor of theology at Basel ( 1849 ); and at Heidelberg professor of theology ( 1851 ), director of the seminary and university preacher.

); Die Urgeschichte des menschlichen Geschlechts ( Schaffhausen, 1855, 2 vols., incomplete ), a demonstration that neither critical history nor the natural sciences, in treating of the origin and earliest history of the human race, can lay claim to certainty, when opposed to the earliest traditions of mankind and especially to Holy Writ ; Papst Gregorius VIII and sein Zeitalter ( Schaffhausen, 1859-61, in 7 vols.

by Tiedemann, Basle, 1884 ); Zur Geschichte deutscher Volksrechte im Mittelalter ( Schaffhausen, 1865, 2 vols.

Very few of their bridges have survived, those at Schaffhausen and Wettingen being burnt by the French in the war of 1799, but their designs were influential, making use of novel combinations of arches and trusses.

At the age of eight he is said to have written a history of Schaffhausen, and at eleven he knew the names and dates of all the kings of the four great monarchies.

* Altdorf, Schaffhausen, a village in the canton of Schaffhausen ( generally written as " Altdorf SH "),

Oddone was with John XXIII's entourage at the Council of Constance and followed him in his escape at Schaffhausen on 21 March 1415.

Insufficient funds caused him to leave the university and teach for a time at Schaffhausen.

Zürich adopted the Protestant religion, joined by Berne, Basel, and Schaffhausen, while Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Nidwalden, Zug, Fribourg and Solothurn remained Catholic.

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 United States Army Air Forces aircraft which strayed from German airspace into neutral Switzerland due to navigation errors.

Neighbouring districts are ( clockwise from the west ) Lörrach, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Schwarzwald-Baar ; followed in the south by the Swiss cantons of Schaffhausen, Zürich and Aargau.

In 1944 Schaffhausen suffered from a bombing raid by United States Army Air Force planes that accidentally strayed from Germany to neutral Switzerland.

The canton of Schaffhausen is even divided by parts of Germany.

Schaffhausen lies on the busy Milan-Zurich-Stuttgart rail line which is serviced by trains from both the Swiss SBB-CFF-FFS and German Deutsche Bahn national railway companies.

Büsingen am Hochrhein, commonly known as Büsingen, is a German town () entirely surrounded by the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and, south across the Rhine, by the Swiss cantons of Zürich and Thurgau.

** Crossing the Rhine at Schaffhausen in two spans of 52 m and 59 m ( by Hans Ulrich )

After pushing the Army of the Danube out of the northern portion of the Swiss plateau — the territory north of the Rhine and south of the Danube — following the battles at Ostrach and Stockach, Archduke Charles ' sizable force — about 110, 000 strong — crossed the Rhine west of Schaffhausen, and prepared to join with the armies of Friedrich, Baron von Hotze and Heinrich, Count von Bellegarde by Zürich.

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 ( psychologist and psychiatrist ), took over the watch factory as an open trading company by the name of the UHRENFABRIK VON J. RAUSCHENBACH ' S ERBEN.

On April 1, 1944, as a result of a fatal error, Schaffhausen was bombed by the United States Army Air Force.

Watch manufacture was becoming streamlined ; the Japy family of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, led the way in this, and soon afterwards the newborn American watch industry developed much new machinery, so that by 1865 the American Watch Company ( afterwards known as Waltham ) could turn out more than 50, 000 reliable watches each year.

" The Bridge at Schaffhausen " by Johann Heinrich Bleuler

" The bridge at Schaffhausen " by Johann Heinrich Bleuler ( picture: Schweizerische Landesbibliothek ) edited from http :// www. uk-ch. org / articles / soane. html

On June 1, 1454, Schaffhausen became an associate ( Zugewandter Ort ) of the confederacy by entering an alliance with six of the eight cantons ( Uri and Unterwalden did not participate ).

Garmin Ltd., incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is the parent company of a group of companies founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao ( hence the name GarMin ), that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System.

Over the next few years, the cities of St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Basel, Bienne, Mulhouse, and finally Bern ( in 1528 ) all followed the example set by Zürich.

Johannes von Müller of Schaffhausen, was the first who attempted to write ( 1780 ) a detailed history of Switzerland, which, though inspired more by his love of freedom than by any deep research, was very characteristic of his times.

In Switzerland, the range covers the western border with France in the Cantons of Basel, Solothurn, Jura, Bern ( i. e., Bernese Jura ), Neuchâtel, Vaud, and the border with Germany in the canton of Schaffhausen.

Another permanent installation, Planet Circle ( 1991 ), can be seen in Museum De Pont in Tilburg, The Netherlands, or in the Hallen für Neue Kunst Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Also, when the Old Swiss Confederacy gained its formal independence from the Empire in 1648 ( it had been de facto independent since 1499 ), the independence of the Imperial Cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen, Solothurn, and Zürich was formally recognized.

Examples: Mülhausen ( Mulhouse ), Mühlhausen, Schaffhausen.

*: State police departments " Kantonspolizei " of Schaffhausen & Vallais ( Canton Vallais has replaced the Sphinx 3000 pistols with the Heckler & Koch P30 in 2011 ), some municipal police forces are also using the Sphinx 3000 as their standard sidearm.

His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin ( b. 1802 ), was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade.

In 1853, SIG was founded in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ( Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland ), as a manufacturer of railway cars.

The outcome of the war also confirmed and cemented the Catholic majority among the thirteen full members of the Swiss Confederation: after later settlements in Glarus and Appenzell, seven full and two half cantons remained Catholic ( Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Fribourg, Solothurn, and half of Glarus and Appenzell ), while four and two halves became firmly Swiss Reformed Protestant ( Zurich, Bern, Basel, Schaffhausen, and half of Glarus and Appenzell ).

Hurter, " Papst Innocenz III ", Schaffhausen, 1845, IV, 148 ), is too natural for there to be any need to seek its origin.