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Klettgau
Klettgau (High Alemannic: ''Chleggau'') is a municipality in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the centre of the ''Klettgau'' historical region stretching across the Swiss border into the cantons of Aargau, Schaffhausen and Zürich. The municipal area includes the villages of Bühl, Erzingen, Geißlingen, Grießen, Rechberg, Riedern am Sand, and Weisweil. Geography Klettgau is located on the Klingengraben and Schwarzbach creeks. In the east it borders on the Swiss municipalities of Trasadingen, Wilchingen and Wasterkingen. The neighbouring German municipalities are Wutöschingen, Lauchringen, Küssaberg, and Hohentengen am Hochrhein in the west, as well as Dettighofen in the east. There is a border crossing into Switzerland on the road from Erzingen to Trasadingen. The municipal area comprises the villages of Bühl, Erzingen, Geißlingen, Grießen, Rechberg, Riedern am Sand, and Weisweil. Erzingen, Bühl and Riedern am Sand are part of the Baden w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Schwarzenberg
The House of Schwarzenberg is a German ( Franconian) and Czech ( Bohemian) aristocratic family, and it was one of the most prominent European noble houses. The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German nobility and Czech nobility and they held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The family belongs to the high nobility and traces its roots to the Lords of Seinsheim during the Middle Ages. The current head of the family is Karel, the 12th Prince of Schwarzenberg, a Czech politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The family owns properties and lands across Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. The family is traditionally based in Bohemia ( Czech Republic), where its ancestral seat is. History Origin The family stems from the Lords of Seinsheim, who had established themselves in Franconia during the Middle Ages. A branch of the Seinsheim family (the non-Schwarzenberg portion died out in 1958) was created whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwarzbach (Klettgau)
Schwarzbach (lit. "black stream") is a river of the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland, and of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Klingengraben. Geography Schwarzbach has its origin in the southern range of hills that separates Klettgau from the Rhine. Its headwaters lie approximately two kilometers northwest of the municipality of Rafz in Switzerland and one kilometer east of the village Berwangen in Dettighofen, Germany. South of Dettighofen, the river forms a short section of the Germany–Switzerland border. After about four kilometers the Schwarzbach runs entirely on German territory, passing the villages Bühl and Riedern am Sand, and leaving its valley near Riedern am Sand to flow across the plain of Klettgau. Shortly after it enters the plain, roughly halfway through its course, the creek Seegraben flows into it from the east. Like Schwarzbach, Seegraben also originates along Switzerland's northern border in the southern hills of Klettgau, near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldshut-Tiengen
Waldshut-Tiengen (; gsw, label=Alemannic, Waldshuet-Düenge, italic=no), commonly known as Waldshut, is a city in southwestern Baden-Württemberg right at the Swiss border. It is the district seat and at the same time the biggest city in Waldshut district and a "middle centre" in the area of the "high centre" Lörrach/Weil am Rhein to whose middle area most towns and communities in Waldshut district belong (with the exception of seven communities that belong to Bad Säckingen's area). There are furthermore complexities arising from cross-border traffic between this area and the Swiss cantons of Aargau, Schaffhausen and Zürich. This classification relates to Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory, however, and not to any official administrative scheme. The city, which was newly created in the framework of the 1975 municipal reform, at that time passed the 20,000 mark in population. City council then applied to have the city raised to ''Große Kreisstadt'', which the government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trasadingen
Trasadingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Geography Trasadingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 76.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is ''Argent, a Vine Vert fructed Azure issuant from a Cross pattee of the second and in chief dexter a Cross pattee Sable and sinister a Sickle proper.'' accessed 30-December-2009 Demographics Trasadingen has a population () of 585, of which 13.7% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 61.7% are from[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohentengen Am Hochrhein
Hohentengen is a municipality in the district of Waldshut (district), Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Location The village Hohentengen lies on the northern banks of the Rhine, overlooking Switzerland. The right weather conditions allow a view of the Swiss Alpes from the 'Kalten Wangen', a mountain in the district of Stetten. Hohentengen am Hochrhein comprises six districts: Hohentengen, Lienheim, Herdern, Bergöschingen, Günzgen and Stetten. Neighbouring towns Hohentengen borders to Klettgau in the north, the Swiss towns of Wasterkingen and Hüntwangen in the east, Glattfelden and Weiach in the south, which are all part of the Kanton Zürich, as well as Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Fisibach, and Rümikon, which are part of the Kanton Aargau. In the west, Hohentengen borders to the German town of Küssaberg. References Waldshut (district) Baden Germany–Switzerland border crossings {{Waldshut-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauchringen
Lauchringen is a village in the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is divided in two districts: Oberlauchringen and Unterlauchringen. Geography Lauchringen lies on the Rhine Plain in the lower Klettgau at the foot of the Küssaberg with its castle of Küssaburg The Küssaburg, Küssenberg or Küssaberg Castle (german: Burg Küssaberg) is a ruined hilltop castle located at an elevation of in Bechtersbohl, a village in the municipality of Küssaberg, in the county of Waldshut in the German state ..., one of the landmarks of the region. References External links * {{Authority control Waldshut (district) Baden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasterkingen
Wasterkingen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History In 2002, Wasterkingen had his 900th birthday, the ''Wasterkingener'' celebrated a big party and there were a lot of interesting attractions to learn more about the history of this little village. Geography Wasterkingen has an area of . Of this area, 46.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 43.4% is forested. The rest of the land, (10.2%) is settled. Wasterkingen has a road border crossing into Germany. Günzgen in the state of Baden-Württemberg lies just across the border. Demographics Wasterkingen has a population (as of ) of . , 7.7% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3.7%. Most of the population () speaks German (98.0%), with French being second most common ( 0.7%) and English being third ( 0.5%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 53.8% of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilchingen
Wilchingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The former municipality of Osterfingen was incorporated into Wilchingen in 2005. Geography Wilchingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 50.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). In 2005 the village of Osterfingen merged into Wilchingen.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 23 September 2009 Coat of arms The of the municipal |
Rheinau Abbey
Rheinau Abbey (Kloster Rheinau) was a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery in Rheinau, Switzerland, Rheinau in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland, founded in about 778 and suppressed in 1862. It is located on an island in the Rhine. History The foundation of the abbey, on a strategically sheltered bend of the Rhine, is supposed to have taken place in about 778. In the ninth century, the community number forty-three, about half of whom were ordained priests. Fintan of Rheinau, St. Findan was from Ireland; after escaping Viking slavers, he lived at the abbey as a hermit for twenty-two years. In 1114 a Romanesque architecture, Romanesque basilica was dedicated here and in 1120 the still extant archive begun. The early history of the abbey, like that of many others, consists of an alternation between generous endowments and privileges from the Holy Roman Emperors, and oppression and fraud from the ''"Vögte"'' (lords protector). In 1126 Count Rudolf of Counts of Lenzburg, Lenzb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klingengraben
Klingengraben is a river of the Canton of Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland and Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany. It passes through Klettgau and flows into the Wutach in Lauchringen. See also *List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg A list of rivers of Baden-Württemberg, Germany: A * Aal * Aalbach *Aalenbach * Ablach * Ach *Acher *Adelbach *Aich *Aid * Aischbach, tributary of the Kinzig * Aischbach, tributary of the Körsch * Aitrach, tributary of the Danube * Aitrach, tri ... References Rivers of Baden-Württemberg Rivers of the canton of Schaffhausen Rivers of Switzerland Rivers of Germany International rivers of Europe {{BadenWürttemberg-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Schaffhausen
The canton of Schaffhausen, also canton of Schaffouse (german: Kanton Schaffhausen; rm, Chantun Schaffusa; french: Canton de Schaffhouse; it, Canton Sciaffusa) is the northernmost canton of Switzerland. The principal city and capital of the canton is Schaffhausen. The canton's territory is divided into three non-contiguous segments, where German territory reaches the Rhine. The large central part, which includes the capital, in turn separates the German exclave of Büsingen am Hochrhein from the rest of Germany. History Schaffhausen was a city-state in the Middle Ages; it is documented that it struck its own coins starting in 1045. It was then documented as ''Villa Scafhusun''. Around 1049, Count Eberhard von Nellenburg founded a Benedictine monastery which led to the development of a community. This community achieved independence in 1190. In 1330, the town lost not only all its lands but also its independence to the Habsburgs. In 1415, the Habsburg Duke Frederick IV of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Mediatisation
German mediatisation (; german: deutsche Mediatisierung) was the major territorial restructuring that took place between 1802 and 1814 in Germany and the surrounding region by means of the mass mediatisation and secularisation of a large number of Imperial Estates. Most ecclesiastical principalities, free imperial cities, secular principalities, and other minor self-ruling entities of the Holy Roman Empire lost their independent status and were absorbed into the remaining states. By the end of the mediatisation process, the number of German states had been reduced from almost 300 to just 39. In the strict sense of the word, mediatisation consists in the subsumption of an immediate () state into another state, thus becoming ''mediate'' (), while generally leaving the dispossessed ruler with his private estates and a number of privileges and feudal rights, such as low justice. For convenience, historians use the term ''mediatisation'' for the entire restructuring process that to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
