Moscow SH
| SH is the abbreviation for the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland and is used to avoid confusion with other entries of the name Moscow . |
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 Schaffhausen (SH)
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| District : | stone | |
| Municipality : | Ramsen SH | |
| Postal code : | 8262 | |
| Coordinates : | 703 772 / 285 291 | |
| Height : | 420 m above sea level M. | |
| Residents: | 50 (2015) | |
 Moscow aerial view June 16, 2006 |
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Moscow is a district of the municipality of Ramsen in the eastern part of the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen . Moscow has fifteen houses.
geography
The hamlet is on the border with Germany on a main road. The German L 191 leads from Kirchen-Hausen through the Hegau and past Singen to the Ramsen customs office. The road continues as T332 through Moscow to the Rhine crossing at Hemishofen . The district of Petersburg is adjacent . The northernmost part of today's Moscow district used to be called Warsaw . These three place names are reminiscent of three capitals in the Russian Empire : St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia, Warsaw the capital of Russian Poland and Moscow the coronation city of the Tsars.
history
The names
According to tradition, Russian troops are said to have occupied the village in 1799, during the Second Coalition War , and set up camp here. At that time the allied Russians, Austrians and British fought against Napoleon's France.
It is historically certain that the oldest of the place names, Petersburg, goes back to Stabhalter (Vice President of the Municipality) Peter Neidhart, who built a house outside of Ramsen in 1822, which the population jokingly named after him. When the farmer Clemens Gnädinger built a farm nearby around 1852, he found many horseshoes allegedly made by the Russians, which is why he named his homestead - starting from Petersburg - Moscow . Both names were later transferred to the two gradually forming quarters. Further single houses were subsequently given names inspired by Russian: On older maps of the Siegfried Atlas, two houses directly on the border with Warsaw were named (they were demolished in the 20th century); Even today there is a house in the Crimea, and until 1934 an inn there was called the Restaurant zur Moskau .
Moscow restaurant
The restaurant Moscow was by his strange name and the location directly on the border rise to many speculations. During the 1930s, for example, communist propaganda was sent without being asked because some comrades suspected that there were friends of opinion there. The German Reich shared this view and feared that a Bolshevik attack on Germany was being planned in Moscow .
In fact, it was all about smuggling . The landlord of the Gasthof zur Moscow had provided the 24-year-old smuggler Hermann Weber, an unemployed merchant from Czechoslovakia , with a shed for his goods and for overnight stays. On August 27, 1933, Hermann Weber and an escort were stopped by German customs officers. Shots rang out on both sides, Weber was able to flee, his companion and the smuggled goods he had brought with him remained behind: around 50 pounds of sugar and 150 pounds of anti-fascist Communist pamphlets . As a result, customs officers, police officers, SA and SS people from the nearby town of Singen searched the border area for hours, but Weber was already in the Swiss shelter. Four men from the Sturmabteilung crossed the border , broke into the shack in Moscow , beat Weber and dragged him back to the German Reich, where he was imprisoned. After a protest by the Federal Council envoy in Berlin against the border violation and the threat not to participate in the Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress, the smuggler Hermann Weber was transferred to the Swiss authorities near Konstanz . Because of the security threat to the country, the smuggler Weber was then deported to France. In 1934 the landlords Anna and Ernst Züllig finally thought it appropriate to give their restaurant the more harmless name of Hegau .
Economy and Transport
Today Moscow is mainly characterized by its location on the border. Petrol pumps and petrol station shops dominate the picture. Several shipping companies have their customs offices in Moscow.
The Ramsen train station is in the Moscow / Petersburg area. In 2004, operations on the railway line were shut down by the SBB . Line 25 from SchaffhausenBus ends at the "Ramsen, Petersburg" stop in the station area. The SEHR & RS Foundation bought the entire infrastructure of the Etzwilen - Rielasingen railway line from SBB in 2006, with the exception of the Rhine bridge near Hemishofen. Museum trains and rail bikes / draisines run on the route .
literature
- Doris Fehrenbacher u. a .: Ramsen homeland book. Published for the 1150th anniversary of the Ramsen community by the Ramsen community. Ramsen 1969, p. 210.
- Franz Hofmann: Once Moscow – Petersburg and back in one day. In: On old ways - mobility in Hegau (= yearbook of the Hegau history association. Volume 68). MarkOrPlan, Singen (Hohentwiel) 2011, ISBN 978-3-933356-65-9 , ISSN 0438-9034, pp. 91-108.
- Eduard Joos u. a .: The place and field names of the canton of Schaffhausen. Including the German enclave Büsingen. Huber, Frauenfeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7193-1595-5 .
- Stefan Keller : Captions. 66 true stories. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85869-711-0 .
- Georg Walter: The place and field names of the canton of Schaffhausen, with comparative consideration of the names of the neighboring communities in Baden, Zurich and Thurgau. Meier, Schaffhausen 1912.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.watson.ch/Schweiz/Tour%20dur%20dSchwiiz/355739720-Eine-Weltreise-in-der-Schweiz--Grad-links-von---Moskau--- geht-es- ueber- --Chlii-America --- to --- paradise--
- ↑ Plan excerpt from TRP Strassen of the Canton of Schaffhausen. sh.ch, accessed on September 19, 2018 .
- ^ A b c Stefan Keller: Keller's stories: Moscow. In: Saiten Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin. Saiten Association, Verlag, Schmiedgasse 15, Postfach 556, 9004 St. Gallen, August 2016, accessed on February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ different authors: village names: in the truest sense of the place. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b A trip around the world in Switzerland: From «Moscow» via «Chlii-Amerika» to «Paradise» . In: watson.ch . ( watson.ch [accessed February 1, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Georg Walter: The place and field names of the canton of Schaffhausen, with comparative consideration of the names of the neighboring communities in Baden, Zurich and Thurgau. Meier, Schaffhausen 1912.
- ↑ a b Eduard Joos u. a .: The place and field names of the canton of Schaffhausen. Including the German enclave Büsingen. Huber, Frauenfeld 2018, p. 742.
- ↑ Return to Moscow once, please. htr.ch, accessed on February 2, 2018 .
- ^ Wolfgang Neidhart: Moscow and Petersburg. Retrieved February 2, 2018 (Chamorro).
- ↑ Homepage of the railway operator