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  SCHAFFHAUSEN - LoveToKnow Article on SCHAFFHAUSEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The main portion of the canton consists of the gently inclined plateau of the Randen (its highest point, c.
The canton arose from acquisitions made at various dates from 1461 to 1798 by the town, which at the time of the Reformation obtained possession of the outlying estates of the ecclesiastical foundations then suppressed.
In 1901 there appeared at Schaffhausen two elaborate historical Festschriften, one for the canton and one for the town, while in 1906-1907 there were published at Schaffhausen two parts (from 987 to 1530) of an official Urkundenregister f-ar den Kanton Schaff hcfuseu.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SC/SCHAFFHAUSEN.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Schaffhausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schaffhausen is a city in northern Switzerland; it has an estimated population of 33,700 in 2003.
Schaffhausen is the capital of the Swiss of Canton of Schaffhausen.
Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins starting in 1045.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Schaffhausen   (182 words)

  
 Canton of Schaffhausen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canton of Schaffhausen is a canton of Switzerland.
The canton of Schaffhausen is the northernmost canton of Switzerland, located to the north of Zurich.
The Rhine Falls are the largest water falls in Europe and lie on the border of the canton of Schaffhausen, the canton of Zurich and Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canton_of_Schaffhausen   (462 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Schaffhausen, Switzerland (Swiss Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Entirely on the right (northern) bank of the Rhine River, the canton consists of three noncontiguous agricultural and forested areas, which are largely surrounded by German territory.
Nearly all of the canton's industry is concentrated in the town of Neuhausen and in the adjoining city of Schaffhausen (1993 pop.
Schaffhausen is an old city, picturesquely situated on the Rhine.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Schaffha.html   (297 words)

  
 Schaffhausen canton (Switzerland)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(Schaffhausen is the southernmost navigable point on the Rhine.) The colours fl and yellow almost certainly derive from the old imperial standard (fl eagle on a yellow field).
Schaffhausen's development was closely tied to a Benedictine convent founded in 1052.
The livery colours of Schaffhausen canton are not taken from the coat of arms.
flagquest.com /FOTW/flags/ch-sh.html   (654 words)

  
 Could a Degressive Tax Be Better Than a Flat Tax? by Alvin Rabushka
As of 2001, all the cantons were required to harmonize the concept of income and most of the deductions and allowances.
The cantons and municipalities, however, are free to set the amount of deductions and the tax rates.
One canton, Schaffhausen, is doing something about it by changing its tax law to attract wealthy people.
www-hoover.stanford.edu /pubaffairs/we/2003/rabushka10.html   (543 words)

  
 Economic Promotion Schaffhausen : Personal Taxes
General: Individuals, who are resident or domiciled in Switzerland, are subject to federal, cantonal and municipal taxes on worldwide income, with the exception of income from real estate and permanent establishments, which are located abroad.
The cantonal and the municipal tax rates are a multiple of the base rate.
Maximum cantonal and municipal tax rates in the various cantons vary between 12.5% and 33.5%.
www.economy.sh /427.html   (297 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Schaffhausen (city)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Schaffhausen (city), capital city and commercial center of Schaffhausen Canton in northern Switzerland.
Schaffhausen lies 37 km (23 mi) north of the...
Lying almost entirely north of the Rhine River, Schaffhausen Canton has an area of 299 sq...
encarta.msn.com /Schaffhausen_(city).html   (116 words)

  
 Real Posts Reports: Reviews of Life in Countries Worldwide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Schaffhausen is well connected by rail and highway to the city of Zurich.
Schaffhausen appears to recognize that daycare is a need to be met, and strives to meet that need with high-quality, centrally located daycare centers.
The canton of Schaffhausen borders and is surrounded by Germany.
talesmag.com /rprweb/the_rprs/europe/realpost_schaufhaussen.shtml   (2824 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hurter
The appearance in 1834 of the first volume of the life of Innocent III, on which he had been working for twenty years, caused a profound sensation in both Catholic and Protestant circles, and was soon translated into French, English, Italian, and Spanish.
Hurter was chosen in 1835 antistes of the clergy in the canton of Schaffhausen, and later president of the school board, in which capacities he laboured with great zeal.
During many years his manifest sympathy and intimacy with the Catholic clergy, including the Archbishop of Freiburg and the papal nuncios to Switzerland, and his disinterested efforts to assist Catholics roused the antagonism of his colleagues who took the first pretext to let loose a storm of abuse against Hurter.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07583c.htm   (574 words)

  
 Talk:Switzerland - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cantons Jura, Basel-land, Solothurn, Fribourg, Berne, and Valais all straddle the linguistic divide.
Actually I'm not terribly sure that the canton borders are at all imporantant to the traveller, I would probably just have the regions and the towns, and skip the cantons, or perhaps better yet, only have pages for the cantons which are more imporantant as destinations than their cities, freely mixing cantons and cities.
Geneva (canton and Geneva (city) are not (at the moment), but for a traveller's needs they might as well be.
wikitravel.org /en/Talk:Switzerland   (1482 words)

  
 Canton of Schaffhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The canon of Schaffhausen is even divided by parts of Germany.
The small district of Rüdlingen-Buchberg lies in the south west of the canon, north of Stein am Rhein.
Schaffhausen was a city-state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins starting in 1005.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/canton_of_schaffhausen   (461 words)

  
 RHINE - LoveToKnow Article on RHINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Swiss Portion.The Rhine rises in the mountains of the Swiss canton of the Grisons, and flows for 233 m.
From Reichenau the united streams flow N.E. to Coire, the capital of the canton of the Grisons, and then turn towards the N., past Ragats, the valley broadening out, and the river being joined on the right by the Landquart and the Ill, before it expands into the Lake of Constance.
Extensive corrections of the river bed, especially the canal of Diepoldsau, have been carried out in the lower bit of this part of the valley, while from a little north of Ragatz the right bank belongs first to Liechtenstein and then to the Austrian province of the Vorarlberg.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Rhine
Although the river's flow is moderated somewhat as it passes through the Bodensee (Lake of Constance), the river remains a torrent westward to Basel, Switzerland.
Near the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen it is 185 m (600 ft) wide and plunges 23 m (75 ft) over a spectacular waterfall, the Rheinfall.
At Basel the river turns north and enters the Rhine Graben, a flat-floored rift valley lying between the Vosges on the west and the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) on the east.
encarta.msn.com /text_761578232___2/Rhine.html   (464 words)

  
 Around the village Hofen SH - Figures and facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hofen has the smallest area with 1.05 km² (259 acres) of all communities in the canton (for comparison: whole canton Schaffhausen: 298 km²; [115 square miles], whole of Switzerland: 41,293 km² [15,943 square miles]) and is at an altitude of 474 m above sea-level.
Hofen is always among the communities in the canton with the three highest rates of participation in voting.
The canton of Schaffhausen is the only Swiss canton with a duty to vote in its laws.
www.hofen.ch /Englisch/ZahlenUndFakten.html   (352 words)

  
 Cartographica Helvetica 4 (1991) 3-16: Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The topographic survey 1:25 000 of Schaffhausen canton for the 'Dufour map' was produced between 1843 and 1848 by the two engineers Johann Conrad Auer and Johann Jakob Müller.
Because of the difficult boundary situation between Schaffhausen and the southern part of Baden, the two states settled a mutual agreement to coordinate their mapping programme.
The still existing cantonal map, divided in four sheets and kept in the State Archives of Schaffhausen, is a handdrawn copy of these original ordnance survey sheets.
www.stub.unibe.ch /dach/ch/ch/summaries/e04a.html   (225 words)

  
 Switzerland 25 February 2002 District Court Schaffhausen [translation available]
The parties have chosen Schaffhausen as the forum in No. 6.5 of the confirmation of order of 4 November (KB 3) on which the legal relationship is based.
The Canton Court Schaffhausen is therefore compentent and obliged to hear the case, as it has local and subject matter jurisdiction.
The declaration of appeal must be doubled and handed in in writing at the court office of the first instance in Schaffhausen and it must be specified which numbers of the decision (after the word "it is held") are challenged and which amendment is demanded.
www.cisg.law.pace.edu /cases/020225s1.html   (6232 words)

  
 Schaffhausen Canton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Schaffhausen town/(city) is the capitol of the canton/(state) of the northernmost part of Switzerland.
Germany undercuts the western part of the canton, almost separating it from the remainder of Switzerland.
If one drives the direct old route to Zürich, one has to cross into and out of Germany on the way between Schaffhausen and the commercial capitol of the country.
www.storrer.com /townsources/schafcan.html   (221 words)

  
 Ancestral ROLL Family - German, Russian, and ROLL Family Heraldry
The city Schaffhausen used the ram coming from a city gate, and both images have also been used for the whole canton during the centuries.
After the conquest of the area by the city of Bern in 1536, the fl mountain was added to the arms of the, since 1416, Dukes of Savoie, as a symbol of their claim to the area.
In the canton an emblem of Khersons'ka province.
www.rollintl.com /roll/grcoat.htm   (5704 words)

  
 Georg Fischer - Georg Fischer supports redevelopment in the "Vorderes Mühlental"
The focal point is the redevelopment of the former steel foundry to create an extensive and attractive commercial and residential centre with hotel, multipurpose rooms for conferences and seminars, residential dwellings, various ancillary facilities and car parks.
The city and canton of Schaffhausen will support the planned redevelopment in the Mühlental close to the city centre although it is not part of the property development team.
Owing to its proximity to the old town of Schaffhausen, to the railway station and the junction to the A4 at the back, it has considerable advantages as a business location compared with other towns.
www.georgfischer.com /omcms/omPage.asp?ID=367   (614 words)

  
 Schaffhausen --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is virtually surrounded on the north, east, and west by Germany, portions of which divide the canton into three detached parts: a large region including the...
A period of internal strife ensued that was instrumental in shaping the human geography of the country.
The cities, particularly the major centres of Bern, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne, Schaffhausen, and Zürich, were far more receptive to the reform preaching of such men as...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066078?tocId=9066078   (470 words)

  
 Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen - switzit.co.uk
Cereals, fruit, and vegetables are raised and a fine wine is produced.
Nearly all of the canton's industry is concentrated in the town of Neuhausen and in the adjoining city of Schaffhausen.
Originally a Benedictine abbey (founded about 1050), Schaffhause became (about 1208) a free city of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled first by its abbots, then by the Hapsburgs, and, after about 1415, by its local trade guilds.
www.switzit.co.uk /places/canton.php?canton=SH   (116 words)

  
 Support Measures Database - View Support Measure Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Canton of Schaffhausen's tax laws offer several opportunities for investors who create new jobs and bring specific know-how to the region.
Client offer: The Canton of Schaffhausen is strongly committed to attracting new businesses to the region and is prepared to make the most competitive offer.
Tax privileges: The Canton of Schaffhausen may be able to offer a significant reduction in cantonal and municipal taxes for up to the first ten years.
europa.eu.int /comm/enterprise/smie/viewmeasure.cfm?m_id=12676   (239 words)

  
 Schaffhausen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Latin America's Minnesota Rose; Whether it's spaghetti dinners or power lunches, Rose Schaffhausen of Little Canada for a quarter-century has cajoled millions of dollars from donors on behalf of disadvantaged children...
DISA Industrie AG, Schaffhausen Switzerland, has sold its Schaffhausen-based foundry planning.
Disa Holding AG, Schaffhausen, and SavelliSpA, Brescia, Italy, have signed an agreement for common RandD.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Schaffha.asp   (367 words)

  
 Switzerland 23 April 2002 District Court Schaffhausen [translation available]
Decision of the 1st civil chamber of the Canton Court.
Therefore, [buyer] is hit by the threatened consequences of her default, and the Court assumes a waiver of further means of evidence (apart from the ones already named during the main proceedings; cf.
The appeal is to be filed in duplicate version with the Court Office of the first instance, Herrenacker 26, 8200 Schaffhausen, and needs to state which of the numbers of the tenor (after the word "held" on page 11) is appealed and which modifications are requested.
www.cisg.law.pace.edu /cases/020423s1.html   (3242 words)

  
 Klettgau-Randen Valley
This valley is the farmland of Schaffhausen canton.
The Rhine flows from the Bodensee/Lake Constance west to Schaffhausen town, turns south over the Rhinefalls at Neuhausen am Rheinfall, then does an S-curve around Rheinau where Germany has intruded between Zürich and Schaffhausen cantons.
Among these are Wilchingen, Trasadingen and Osterfingen are part of the valley, while Schleitheim and Begingen are on the road out the northwest border of Schaffhausen canton.
www.storrer.com /townsources/kletran.html   (444 words)

  
 SwissGen : genealogical records by Canton - Schaffhausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A most valuable source for the families of the city of Schaffhausen are the genealogical registers, also available at the Schaffhausen City Archive, and including the family crests (copies of the crests may be ordered from the City archives).
These genealogical registers are succeeded for the time period 1873-1949 by civil registers: this list mentions all families holding (city of) Schaffhausen citizenship at any time during 1900 and 1948.
Selected genealogical information relating to all communities of the canton Schaffhausen ist provided by Martin Schupisser.
www.genealogienetz.de /reg/CH/kibu/shkbinde.htm   (197 words)

  
 Cartographica Helvetica 22 (2000) 21-30: Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Heinrich Peyer was an architect, a cartographer, an engineer for fortresses, and served in the artillery.
The large painted map of the Canton of Schaffhausen at the scale 1:25 000 from 1684 was the highlight of his cartographic work.
This map was used several times as a basis for copper engravings: for instance in 1685 by Felix Meyer and again in 1747 by Heinrich Albertin.
www.stub.unibe.ch /dach/ch/ch/summaries/e22c.html   (109 words)

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