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State :	Switzerland Switzerland
Canton :	Canton of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (SH)
District :	Schleitheim
BFS no. :	2951i1 f3 f4
Postal code :	8228
Coordinates :	682068 / 291 251 coordinates: 47 ° 46 '0 " N , 8 ° 32' 0" O ; CH1903: 682068 / 291,25147.766668 8.533333 545
Height :	545 m above sea level M.
Height range :	503–911 m above sea level M.
Area :	12.58 km²
Residents:	476 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km²
Website:	www.beggingen.ch
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Beggingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland .

history

The guards of the Beggingen border post, Company III / 64, 1914–1918

Beggingen was donated to Reichenau Abbey in the 10th century .

In 1530, Beggingen and Schleitheim were transferred from the Landgraviate of Stühlingen to the city of Schaffhausen in exchange for Grafenhausen and Birkendorf .

Historic aerial photo by Werner Friedli from 1948

coat of arms

Blazon

Two mutually perpendicular, silver plowshares in green.

The coat of arms of the municipality of Beggingen went through several changes in the course of history. The oldest shows a silver ploughshare on a red background. The most extraordinary coat of arms can be found in 1597: a black ram with a yellow background grows out of a lying silver ploughshare. This coat of arms connected the rural culture with the origin of the name Beggingen, which was derived from Böckingen and thus suggested the association with the goat. In the course of the next 200 years you will not learn anything about a coat of arms. In 1795 a seal appeared for the first time with the two plowshares standing on top of each other. At the municipal assembly in 1950, the coat of arms of 1597 and that of 1795 were proposed to the citizens, with the latter finally prevailing.

Dinosaur find

On May 24, 1962, a pupil in a seminar class in Schaffhausen, led by Hans Früh, discovered a vertebral bone of an ichthyosaur from the Lias with a diameter of 12 cm on an excursion to Beggingen am Allerstieg . The following excavations resulted in a tail piece about 1.20 m long. In the autumn of 1962, a further excavation found another 30 vertebrae, the smallest of which was 4 cm in diameter.

traffic

Regular buses run from Beggingen via Schleitheim to Schaffhausen .

There is a side road to Schleitheim, from where main road 14 continues in the direction of Freiburg im Breisgau or Schaffhausen. Other small side roads lead across the border to Fützen in Germany (asphalted road), as well as the Randen crossing to Hemmental (partly asphalted road).

Attractions

literature

Kurt Bächtold: The history of the Randendorf Beggingen , Beggingen 1991.

Web links

Commons : Beggingen - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Beggingen
Andreas Schiendorfer: Beggingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
↑ Presentation of the story on the website of the municipality of Beggingen. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
↑ grafenhausen.de: history . Retrieved July 21, 2012
^ Bruckner-Herbstreit, Berty: The emblems of the state of Schaffhausen and its communities, Reinach-Basel 1951, pp. 175–176.

[1] Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .

[2] Presentation of the story on the website of the municipality of Beggingen. Retrieved November 30, 2012.

[3] rafenhausen.de: history . Retrieved July 21, 2012

[4] Bruckner-Herbstreit, Berty: The emblems of the state of Schaffhausen and its communities, Reinach-Basel 1951, pp. 175–176.