Schaffhausen (; ), historically known in English as Shaffhouse, is a town with historic roots, a municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 37,000 as of December 2018. It is located on the shore of the High Rhine; it is one of four Swiss towns located entirely on the northern side of the Rhine, along with , the historic , and .

The largely pedestrianised old town has two preserved medieval gate towers and many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos, sculptures and a total of 171 oriel windows (more than any other Swiss town). The old canton fortress, the Munot, overlooks the old town. Schaffhausen railway station is a junction of Swiss and German railway lines. One of the lines connects the town with the nearby Rhine Falls in , Europe's largest waterfall and a popular tourist attraction.

The official language of Schaffhausen is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.

Name

The town is first mentioned in 1045 as Villa Scafhusun. There are at least two theories on the origin of this name:

  • One relates to a mention of a "ford" across the Rhine that first occurs in 1050. This "ford" may actually refer to a scapha or skiff which was used to disembark goods coming from Constance to move them around the Rhine Falls. The name Scafhusun then arose from the scapha used at that point.
  • Another theory is that Scafhusun comes from Schaf (a sheep), as a ram (now a sheep) formed the ancient arms (traceable to 1049) of the town, derived from those of its founders, the counts of Nellenburg.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or on a Base Vert issuant from sinister a Semi Castle Argent with tower with entrance from which is issuing a Semi Ram Sable. The canting coat of arms refers to the second interpretation of the name, sheep-house.

History

thumb|left|Aerial view by [[Walter Mittelholzer (1919)]]

Schweizersbild, now located in a residential area, is a rock shelter, which during the Paleolithic period was the site of a habitation. Several artifacts were unearthed during archeological excavations, which are on display at the Museum zu Allerheiligen, among others.

Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins from 1045. About 1050 the counts of Nellenburg founded the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, which became the centre of the town. Perhaps as early as 1190, certainly in 1208, it was an imperial free city, while the first seal dates from 1253. The powers of the abbot were gradually limited and in 1277 the Emperor Rudolf I gave the town a charter of liberties. In 1330 the emperor Louis of Bavaria pledged it to the Habsburgs. In the early 15th century, Habsburg power over the city waned. In 1349 and 1401 (Schaffhausen Massacre), two pogroms occurred in the city. By 1411 the guilds ruled the city. Then, in 1415 the Habsburg Duke Frederick IV of Austria sided with the Antipope John XXIII at the Council of Constance, and was banned by the Emperor Sigismund. As a result of the ban and Frederick's need of money, Schaffhausen was able to buy its independence from the Habsburgs in 1418. The city allied with six of the Swiss confederates in 1454 and allied with a further two (Uri and Unterwalden) in 1479. Schaffhausen became a full member of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1501.

The Reformation was adopted, initially, in 1524 and completely in 1529. The town was heavily damaged during the Thirty Years' War by the passage of Swedish (Protestant) and Bavarian (Roman Catholic) troops and the very important bridge was burnt down. It was not until the early 19th century that the arrested industrial development of the town recommenced.

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 aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces, which strayed from German airspace into neutral Switzerland due to navigation errors. Air raid sirens had often sounded in the past, without an actual attack, so many residents ignored the sirens that day. A total of 40 civilians were killed in the raid. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent a personal letter of apology to the mayor of Schaffhausen and the United States quickly offered four million US dollars in reparations.

Geography and climate

Topography

The town of Schaffhausen stands on the right bank of the river Rhine. It has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of . Of this area, about 20.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 53.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 24.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and 1.6% is unproductive land. Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by and the agricultural land has decreased by .

In 1947 it merged with the former municipality of Buchthalen. Its area expanded again in 1964 when Herblingen was absorbed and for a third time in 2009 when Hemmental joined the municipality.

Schaffhausen shares an international border with the German village of Büsingen am Hochrhein, an enclave entirely surrounded by Switzerland.

Climate

Schaffhausen has an average of 122.5 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives of precipitation. The wettest month is July during which time Schaffhausen receives an average of of rain. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 11.3 days. The driest month of the year is February with an average of of precipitation over 8.4 days.

Politics

Government

The City Council (de: Stadtrat) constitutes the executive government of the town of Schaffhausen and operates as a collegiate authority. It is composed of five councilors (), each presiding over a department (Referat), which each consists of several administrative districts. The president of the executive department acts as mayor (Stadtpräsident(in)). In the mandate period January 2025 – December 2028 (Amtsdauer) the City Council is presided by Stadtpräsident Peter Neukomm. Departmental tasks, coordination measures and implementation of laws decreed by the Grand City Council (parliament) are carried by the City Council. The regular election of the City Council by any inhabitant valid to vote is held every four years. Any resident of Schaffhausen allowed to vote can be elected as a member of the City Council. The mayor is elected as such as well by public election while the heads of the other directorates are assigned by the collegiate. The mayor as well as the delegates are elected by means of a system of Majorz.

, Schaffhausen's City Council is made up of two representative of the SP (Social Democratic Party), of who one is also the mayor, one of the FDP (The Liberals), one of the SVP (Swiss People's Party), one of the GLP (Green Liberal Party), and one independent. The last regular election was held on 18 August 2024.

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|+ Stadtrat of Schaffhausen 2025-2028

The last regular election of the Grand City Council was held on 24 November 2024 for the mandate period () from January 2025 to December 2028. Currently the Grand City Council consist of 10 members of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS) and one of its junior section, the JUSO, 8 of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), 6 of The Liberals (FDP/PLR) and none of its junior partner, the JFSH, 4 of the Green Liberal Party (GLP/PVL), 2 of the Green Party (GPS/PES)) and one of its junior partner, the Junge Grüne, and one each of The Centre (former CVP/PDC), Evangelical People's Party (EVP/PES), Federal Democratic Union (EDU/UDF), and one of the PUSH.

National elections

; National Council

In the 2023 federal election the most popular party was the SP (35.9%, +3.8). The next five most popular parties were the SVP with 29.7% of the vote (-3.1), the FDP (12.7%, +3.1), the GLP with 7.4% (+0.8), the Greens with 6.3% (-1.7), and others (8.0%). In the federal election, a total of 14,450 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 60.9% (+2.2).

In the 2019 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 32.8% of the vote (-6.2). The next five most popular parties were the SP (32.1%, -1.9), the FDP (9.6%, -3.1), the Greens with 8.0% (+3.7), the GLP with 6.6% (+6.6), and others (10.9%). In the federal election, a total of 13,351 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 57.7% (-3.0).

In the 2015 federal election the most popular party was the SVP with 39.0% of the vote (+7.2). The next three most popular parties were the SP (34.0%, -7.6), the FDP (12.7%, +0.6), the Greens with 4.3% (+4.3), and others (10.0%). In the federal election, a total of 13,754 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 60.7% (+2.8).

Demographics

thumb|[[Rhine Falls as seen from Neuhausen am Rheinfall]]

thumb|Views of old town, Schaffhausen

Population

Schaffhausen has a population () of . , 27.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 21% are from Germany, 13.3% are from Italy, 8.8% are from Croatia, 13.3% are from Serbia, 6% are from North_Macedonia, 9% are from Turkey, and 28.6% are from other countries. Most of the population () speaks German (84.3%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (3.4%) and Italian being third (3.2%).

Over the last four years (2010–2014) the population has changed at a rate of 2.82%. The birth rate in the municipality, in 2014, was 9.6, while the death rate was 10.1 per thousand residents.

In 2014 there were 16,723 private households in Schaffhausen with an average household size of 2.10 persons. Of the 5,863 inhabited buildings in the municipality, in 2000, about 51.5% were single family homes and 29.7% were multiple family buildings. Additionally, about 22.1% of the buildings were built before 1919, while 7.6% were built between 1991 and 2000. In 2013 the rate of construction of new housing units per 1000 residents was 1.29. The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.71%.

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Religion

, 27.4% of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 43.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church,

Education

In Schaffhausen about 69.8% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule (university of applied sciences)).

In 2014 a total of 1.3% of the population received social assistance. In 2015 there were two movie theaters in the municipality, with a total of 10 screens and a total of 1,816 available seats. , there are 102 restaurants, and 11 hotels with 445 beds. The catering industry in Schaffhausen employs 924 people.

Bus

thumb|[[Battery electric buses at Bahnhofstrasse]]

thumb|Bahnhofstrasse in 1906 with [[:de:Strassenbahn Schaffhausen|trams and interurban train to Schleitheim]]

Schaffhausen and the neighboring town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall have an urban bus network of 9 lines. Since 2019, lines (3–10) are operated by battery-powerd buses (Irizar) and diesel-powered buses. Until December 2025, line 1 was operated by trolleybuses, which replaced the former tram system, but since the closure of the trolleybus system line 1 is also operated by battery-electric buses. All routes except line 9 call at Schaffhausen railway station. Route 9 calls at Herblingen railway station. During weekends, there are night buses (designated as N#) operating after midnight.

The urban bus routes, which all operated by Verkehrsbetriebe Schaffhausen (vbsh), are as follows:

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| Herbstäcker – Neuhausen Zentrum – Schaffhausen railway station – Ebnat – Waldfriedhof

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| Sommerwies – Schützenhaus – Schaffhausen railway station – Krummacker

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| Birch – Schützenhaus – Schaffhausen railway station – Gruben

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Falkeneck – Einkaufszentren – Schlossweiher

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| bgcolor=#f8ae1a | <span style="color:white"><big>6</big></span>

| Buchthalen – Schifflände – Rhybadi / IWC – Schaffhausen railway station – Kantonsspital – Falkeneck

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| Neuhausen SBB – Neuhausen Zentrum – Schützenhaus – Schaffhausen railway station

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Schifflände – Im Freien

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| Ebnat – Kinepolis – Herblingen railway station – Einkaufszentren

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| Schaffhausen railway station (North) – Logierhaus – Falkeneck

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Schützenhaus – Riet – Sommerwies – Nordstrasse – Schaffhausen railway station

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| bgcolor=#1A1817 | <span style="color:#FFEC00"><big>N2</big></span>

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| bgcolor=#1A1817 | <span style="color:#FFEC00"><big>N3</big></span>

| Schaffhausen railway station – Mühlentor – Schifflände – Buchthalen – Gruben – Niklausen – Kinepolis – Ebnat – Schaffhausen railway station

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Mühlentor – Neuhausen Zentrum – Kreuzstrasse – Herbstäcker – Hohfluh – Wiesli – Schaffhausen railway station

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One of the previous urban routes, line 12 to the Rhine Falls, was the first route ever to feature a level 5 autonomous bus (2018–2019).

In addition, there are several regional bus services that link Schaffhausen with villages in the canton of Schaffhausen, the canton of Zürich and nearby German territory. The regional bus services 21–25, lines 630 and 634 and all night bus services (designated with N#) all depart from the forecourt of Schaffhausen railway station:

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Hemmental

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Merishausen – Bargen

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Stetten – Lohn – Büttenhardt – Opfertshofen – Altdorf – Hofen – Bibern – Thayngen (– Barzheim)

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Büsingen – Dörflingen – Randegg – Murbach – Buch – Ramsen

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Feuerthalen – Flurlingen – Uhwiesen – Benken – Marthalen

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| Schaffhausen railway station – Feuerthalen – Flurlingen – Uhwiesen – Dachsen – Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall

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| bgcolor=#1A1817 | <span style="color:#FFEC00"><big>N76</big></span>

| Schaffhausen railway station – Falkeneck – Schlossweiher – Thayngen, Hüttenleben – Thayngen railway station – Falkeneck – Schaffhausen railway station

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| bgcolor=#1A1817 | <span style="color:#FFEC00"><big>N77</big></span>

| Schaffhausen railway station – Neuhausen am Rheinfall – Beringen – Guntmadingen – Neunkirch – Oberhallau – Hallau – Wilchingen – Osterfingen – Trasadingen

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Boat

thumb|Boat of [[Schweizerische Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Untersee und Rhein|URh near Dörflingen on the High Rhine]]

Departing from Schifflände, there are regular boat trips on the river Rhine (High Rhine) to Stein am Rhein and Kreuzlingen (Lake Constance) offered by Schweizerische Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Untersee und Rhein (URh) during warmer seasons.

Private Transport

The A4 motorway connects Schaffhausen with Zürich. The A4 continues northward to Donaueschingen/Singen (Hohentwiel) in Germany. Since 1996, the A4 runs through a tunnel, bypassing the town's center. There are three nearby exits along the A4: Schaffhausen Süd, Schaffhausen Nord and Schaffhausen Schweizersbild.

The Hauptstrasse 13 connects Schaffhausen with villages in the western part of the canton (Klettgau), through the Galgenbucktunnel which opened in 2019, and with villages along the Rhine east of Schaffhausen.

Culture

; Heritage sites of national significance

There are 35 buildings or sites in Schaffhausen that are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance. This includes the entire old town of Schaffhausen, the city walls, the Giesserei +GF+ Werk I factory, the town and cantonal archives, the Schweizersbild Paleolithic cave and the Herblingen and Grüthalde Neolithic settlements. Additionally, there are four former guild houses and seven listed houses. There are only two listed religious buildings, the former Benedictine All Saints Abbey and the Church of St. John.

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File:Schaffhausen - Kloster Allerheiligen IMG 2705.JPG | All Saints Abbey () as seen from Munot

File:Schaffhausen - Kloster Allerheiligen IMG 2690.jpg | Church portal of Münster Schaffhausen

File:Schaffhausen Münster Hauptschiff 1.jpg| Cathedral interior of Münster Schaffhausen

File:Schaffhausen IMG 2689.jpg | Restaurant Thiergarten and Munot tower

File:Schaffhausen IMG 2702.jpg | Altstadt

File:Schaffhausen IMG 2721.JPG | St. Johann

File:Haus zum Sittich. Schaffhausen.jpg|House zum Sittich at Vordergasse 43

File:Zum Ritter Schaffhausen.jpg|House ' at Vordergasse 65, one of the listed houses

File:CH Schaffhausen, Vorstadt 006.jpg|House zum Grossen Käfig at Vorstadt 43

File:Schaffhausen - Mohrenbrunnen 01.jpg|': fountain statue depicting Caspar of the Biblical Magi

File:Schaffhausen 1.JPG|View of the Rhine, with Altstadt with the Münster

File:Schaffhausen, de Obertorturm IMG 4642 2023-04-28 19.44.jpg|Towngate: Obertorturm ()

File:2004-Schaffhausen-Schwabentorturm.jpg|Towngate: Schwabentorturm ()

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Economy

Schaffhausen hosts some well-known industrial companies like Georg Fischer (piping systems, machine tools and automotives) and ABB Schweiz AG, internationally reputed manufacturers of watches (IWC and H. Moser & Cie), as well as Johnson & Johnson from pharmaceutical industry (former Cilag AG, founded by Bernhard Joos) and BB Biotech (biotechnologies). Tyco International, Garmin, Aptiv and cyber protection company Acronis are also incorporated in Schaffhausen.

Sport

The town has two football teams, SV Schaffhausen, of the fourth-tier Swiss 1. Liga, and FC Schaffhausen, of the second-tier Swiss Challenge League. There is a football stadium in Breite, Schaffhausen which seats 4,200 persons, known as the Breitestadion. It is also the training headquarters for local children's football teams.

There is a handball team in Schaffhausen which plays in the first Swiss division: Kadetten Schaffhausen. They are centered at the BBC Arena on Schweizersbildstrasse. It was built in 2011 and seats up to 3,500 persons. Kadetten has been very successful and has won the second most titles in the history of the SHL.

In 2024, Schaffhausen hosted the World Men's Curling Championship.

Notable people

140px|thumb|Johann Jakob Wepfer, engraving

140px|thumb|Lorentz Spengler, 1751

140px|thumb|Emil Ermatinger, 1921

140px|thumb|Christoph Blocher, 2007

140px|thumb|Irene Schweizer, 2014

140px|thumb|Juerg Froehlich, 2005

140px|thumb|Roberto Di Matteo, 2015

140px|thumb|Florence Schelling, 2011

Pre-17th century

  • Bernold of Constance (c.1054–1100 in Schaffhausen), chronicler and writer of religious tracts
  • Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg (1445–1510), priest, a popular preacher of the 15th-century
  • Sebastian Hofmeister (1476–1533), known in writing as Oeconomus or Oikonomos, was a Swiss monk and religious Reformer
  • Tobias Stimmer (1539–1584), painter and illustrator, particularly of the Strasbourg astronomical clock
  • Daniel Lindtmayer (1552–c.1605), the fourth generation of artists and glass painters

17th century

  • Johann Jakob Wepfer (1620–1695), pathologist and pharmacologist
  • Johann Conrad Peyer (1653–1712), anatomist
  • Johann Konrad Ammann (1669–1724), physician and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons
  • Andrew Schalch (1692–1776), the first gun-founder at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich

18th century

  • George Michael Moser (1706–1783), chaser and enameller, co-founder of the Royal Academy in 1768
  • Johann Amman (1707–1741), Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany
  • John Snetzler (1710–1785), organ builder who worked mostly in England
  • Lorenz Spengler (1720–1807), Danish turner and naturalist.
  • Johann Jakob Schalch (1723–1789), painter, noted for his paintings of the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen
  • Johann Conrad Ammann (1724–1811), physician, naturalist and collector of fossils
  • Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), historian
  • Johann Conrad Fischer (1773–1854), metallurgist, inventor, and pioneer in the steel industry; founded Georg Fischer AG in 1802
  • Friedrich Emmanuel von Hurter (1787–1865), Protestant cleric and historian who converted to Roman Catholicism
  • Caroline Mezger (1787–1843), painter, printmaker, and art teacher

19th century

  • Heinrich Moser (1805–1874), watchmaker and entrepreneur
  • Johann Heinrich Gelzer (1813–1889), historian and diplomat
  • Hans Bendel (1814–1853), painter and illustrator
  • Ferdinand Hurter (1844–1898), industrial chemist who settled in England, researched photography
  • Dame Sophia Wintz DBE (1847–1929), British philanthropist who co-founded the Royal Sailors' Rests in Plymouth and Portsmouth
  • Ernst Homberger (1869–1955), industrialist, company director at Georg Fischer and IWC Schaffhausen
  • Emil Ermatinger (1873–1953), professor for Germanic philology
  • Ferdinand Schalch (1848–1918), paleontologist and geologist
  • Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (brought up in Schaffhausen)
  • Bernhard Peyer (1885–1963), paleontologist and anatomist
  • Karl Jäger (1888–1959), mid-ranking official in the SS of Nazi Germany, perpetrated acts of genocide during the Holocaust
  • Walther Bringolf (1895–1981), mayor of Schaffhausen (1933–1968); former President of the National Council of Switzerland (1961–1962)

20th century

  • Richard Meili (1900–1991), scientist in practical psychology, diagnostics, personality development and intelligence
  • Conrad Beck (1901–1989), composer and head of Music of Radio Basel 1933–1963
  • Carl Alfred Meier (1905–1995), psychiatrist, Jungian psychologist, scholar, and first president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich
  • Cardinal Gilberto Agustoni (1922–2017), prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Ernst Hess (1912–1968), conductor, composer and musicologist
  • Rita Wolfensberger (1928–2020), classical pianist
  • Bruno Meyer (born 1938), religious leader and founder of the Menorah church; convicted in 2010 for rape and child sexual abuse
  • Markus Werner (1944–2016), writer, author of the novels Zündels Abgang
  • Christoph Blocher (born 1940), politician, industrialist and former member of the Swiss Federal Council
  • Pia Gyger (1940–2014), specialist for special education and psychologist
  • Irène Schweizer (1941–2024), jazz and free improvising pianist
  • Jürg Fröhlich (born 1946), mathematician and theoretical physicist
  • Giorgio Behr (born 1948), businessman, lawyer, accountant and university professor
  • Beat Furrer (born 1954), Austrian composer and conductor
  • Philipp Landmark (born 1966), journalist and former editor-in-chief of the St. Galler Tagblatt
  • Tom Strala (born 1974), designer, architect and artist

Sport

  • Jules Ehrat (1905–1997), chess player, the 1942 joint Swiss Chess Champion
  • Liselotte Kobi (1930–2022), former swimmer, competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
  • Marianne Gossweiler (born 1943), equestrian, medallist in team dressage at both the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics
  • Meta Antenen (born 1949), pentathlete, won nine medals at European championships, competing for LC Schaffhausen
  • Stefan Maurer (1960–1994), cyclist, competed in the individual road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Stephan Lehmann (born 1963), retired football goalkeeper, goalkeeper coach for FC Sion, 538 team games and 14 for the national side
  • Roberto Di Matteo (born 1970), Italian professional football manager and former player, won FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 2012
  • Daniela Baumer (born 1971), sprint canoer, silver medallist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  • Florence Schelling (born 1989), ice hockey goaltender and three-time Olympian; first woman to be named GM of a professional men's team in the world (SC Bern)

See also

  • Cholfirst Radio Tower
  • List of mayors of Schaffhausen
  • Bombing of Schaffhausen in World War II

Notes

References

  • Tourism information Schaffhauserland
  • Town archives
  • Rhine Falls - an amazing spectacle
  • U.S. Bombings of Switzerland during World War II
  • Digitized Edition of Chronik der Stadt und Landschaft Schaffhausen, in German, 1884–1910, at E-rara
  • Digitized Edition of Wappenbuch der Stadt Schaffhausen, in German, Schaffhausen 1819, at E-rara.
  • Schaffhausen – where businesses grow. And makers belong.
  • Munot Fortress