Neuhausen am Rheinfall

Neuhausen am Rheinfall
State :	Switzerland
Canton :	Schaffhausen (SH)
District :	Schaffhausen
BFS no. :	2937
Postal code :	8212
Coordinates :	688 454  /  282076 coordinates: 47 ° 41 '0 "  N , 8 ° 37' 0"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty-four  /  282076
Height :	410  m above sea level M.
Height range :	359-568 m above sea level M.
Area :	8.00  km²
Residents:	10,512 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	1314 inhabitants per km²
Proportion of foreigners : (residents without citizenship )	39.79% (December 31, 2,014)
Website:	www.neuhausen.ch
View from Laufen-Uhwiesen over the basin of the Rhine Falls on Neuhausen
Location of the municipality

Neuhausen am Rheinfall (officially called Neuhausen until 1938 ) is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland .

geography

Neuhausen is known for the Rhine Falls tourist attraction , which is shared with the municipality of Laufen-Uhwiesen . Other neighboring communities are Flurlingen , Feuerthalen , Schaffhausen , Beringen and the German community of Jestetten . The border between Germany and Switzerland runs to the south .

To the northwest is the Neuhausen am Rheinfall transmitter (Engiwald) . A few hundred meters south of this is the Galgenbuck (500 m), a hill with great views.

history

The use of the traffic routes in the area of ​​the municipality was determined by archaeological finds from the Neolithic and the 5th century. In Roman times there was a “reloading station at the Rhine Falls”. A village existed from the 7th century. Early documentary mentions were made as Niuhusen (900/910) and Niuwenhusin (1253). From the 12th century flour mills existed and from 1404 there were iron smiths on site. The following dates characterize the development of the place: 1524 12 houses .; around 1800 206 inhabitants; 1850 922 inhabitants; 1888 2,023 inhabitants; 1900 3,905 inhabitants; 1950 7,969 inhabitants; 1970 12,103 inhabitants; 2000 9,959 inhabitants.

At the beginning of the 19th century, viticulture was the most important source of income, the village character remained until the middle of the 19th century. The railway connection in 1857 and 1863 initially promoted both tourism and industrialization. At the turn of the century, tourism declined sharply, while new businesses settled. The highest population was recorded in 1969 with 12,251 inhabitants.

Historic aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer from 1919

economy

Building of SIG

The best-known companies in Neuhausen include the IVF Hartmann dressing material factory , the Swiss Industrial Society (SIG) and the former Alusuisse branch, which is now part of the Alcan Group . Until 2014, the international security group Tyco International was also based in Neuhausen. Gun production has a tradition in Neuhausen, which was continued by several companies. From 1860 the wagon factory, which was renamed the Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG) in 1863, produced handguns in Neuhausen . like the well-known cousin rifle .

traffic

Neuhausen Rheinfall train station

Neuhausen has three railway stations of which the station Neuhausen and the train station Neuhausen Rheinfall (since December 13, 2015) at the Rheinfallbahn or at the Eglisau-Neuhausen railway line are and the Swiss Federal Railways operate while the station Neuhausen Bad Bf on the Upper Rhine Railway is and as part of the German railways on Swiss territory is under the responsibility of Deutsche Bahn .

Since December 2019 Neuhausen am Rheinfall has been bypassed by the Galgenbuck tunnel and connected to the A4 connection Schaffhausen Süd . The main roads H4 , H13 and H14 run through the tunnel .

The Schaffhausen trolleybus has been operating within Neuhausen since 1968 , replacing the Schaffhausen tram that opened in 1901 . Between 1905 and 1964, the Schaffhausen – Schleitheim tram also ran through the town.

Since 1921 the community has been linked by a road bridge over the Rhine with the community of Flurlingen in the canton of Zurich .

Incidents

Several people were injured when two passenger trains collided on January 10, 2013. The two trains - a Thurbo GTW of the S33 and an HVZ-D of the S11 - collided in the morning near the SBB train station. 26 people were slightly or moderately injured. Rescue workers from Zurich and Germany also came to help the wounded.

Sports

Neuhausen is the seat of the table tennis club Neuhausen and the VFC Neuhausen 90 (United Soccer Club Neuhausen 90).

coat of arms

Blazon :

In yellow over a green shamrock, white vine knife turned to the right with a brown handle.

In 1569 there was a jumping silver salmon in gold on the coat of arms for Neuhausen . This symbolized the importance of fishing for the community. A short time later, the same coat of arms can be identified in slightly different colors. The background is not golden, but red. With the decline in the importance of fishing, the coat of arms was probably also forgotten, because in 1822 the current association of clover leaf with vine knife can be found on the coat of arms . These two elements were nothing out of the ordinary and presumably stem from the lack of imagination of the seal engraver, who chose the same symbols as for many other Schaffhausen parishes.

When the coats of arms were cleaned up in 1949, the municipal and residents' council chose the historic coat of arms because it is well documented and unique to Schaffhausen. Shortly after this vote, however, a referendum was held, in the course of which the more modern coat of arms was chosen.

Attractions

Parish hall

reformed Church

Rhine Falls near Neuhausen

See also : List of cultural assets in Neuhausen am Rheinfall

• Rhine Falls
• Castle Wörth
• Neuburg ruins
• Villa Charlottenfels
• Aazheimerhof
• Badischer Bahnhof

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Dietrich Woessner (* 1906), non-fiction author, was made an honorary citizen in 1987.

Sons and daughters of the church

• René Bardet (1948-2005), guitarist and spokesman for Swiss television (SF DRS)
• Walter Maria Förderer (1928–2006), architect, sculptor, university professor and politician
• Vreni Frauenfelder (1927–2018), development worker
• Hans Frey (1873–1947), engineer, general staff officer and university professor
• Daniela Keizer (* 1963), concept and installation artist
• Peter Kilian (born as Fritz Schlumpf , 1911–1988), working-class writer and poet
• Arthur Moser (1880–1957), architect and politician
• Oscar Neher (1862–1944), industrialist
• Arthur Rich (1910–1992), theologian, social and economic ethicist
• Kurt Ruh (1914–2002), mediaevalist and university professor in Würzburg
• Dieter Wiesmann (1939–2015), songwriter

Other personalities who worked in Neuhausen am Rheinfall

• Johann Jakob Mezger (1817–1893), Protestant clergyman and local researcher

literature

• Peter Pfaff: Neuhausen am Rheinfall. A picture of the village yesterday and today , Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1996, ISBN 3-906660-07-9 .
• Franz Morath: Neuhausen am Rheinfall , in: Schaffhauser Magazin, 21, 1998, No. 2, pp. 6-40.
• Robert Pfaff: The Holy Cross Church in Neuhausen on the Rhine Falls. Festschrift for the inauguration of the restored-renovated Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , Neuhausen am Rheinfall 1993.
• Karl-Hellmuth Jahnke: "Jestetter Zipfel". 100 years of the Eglisau - Neuhausen rail link , in: Schaffhauser Mappe, 20, 1997, No. 2, pp. 6-53.
• Jürg Zimmermann: On the history of the "Badischer Bahnhof" in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , in: Schaffhauser contributions to history, 64, 1987, pp. 109–123.

Web links

Commons : Neuhausen am Rheinfall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the community of Neuhausen am Rheinfall
• Martin Akeret Weishaupt: Neuhausen am Rheinfall. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Robert Pfaff: Aazheim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Robert Pfaff: Hofstetten (SH). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• over 1000 old photos of Neuhausen, the Rhine Falls and the surrounding area
• Old views of Neuhausen and the Rhine Falls
• Old photographic views of the Rhine Falls
• Stock: Archive Photo Müller, Neuhausen am Rheinfall. State Archives Schaffhausen. link

Individual evidence

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. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population according to institutional structure, gender, nationality and age . Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Status: April 1, 2012, accessed on July 11, 2014
3. ^ Martin Akeret Weishaupt: Neuhausen am Rheinfall. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 21, 2009 , accessed June 5, 2019 .
4. ↑ http://www.neuhausen.ch/index.dna?rubrik=23&lang=1
5. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , edition of October 3, 2008: Traditional business before another new beginning ( Memento from July 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), in Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS)
6. ^ Adrian Knoepfli: Swiss Industrial Society (SIG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 27, 2011 , accessed June 5, 2019 .
7. ↑ Use of the railway infrastructure of DB Netz AG, Swiss Infrastructure ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), information from DB Netz AG, accessed on December 4, 2012
8. ^ Mathias Rellstab, Walter von Andrian: The SBB accidents in Lenzburg and Neuhausen. In: Schweizer Eisenbahn-Revue 2/2013, pp. 93–96.
9. ^ Berty Bruckner-Herbstreit: The emblems of the state Schaffhausen and its communities. Reinach-Basel 1951 (self-published), pp. 231–234.
10. ↑ Mandy Ranneberg, Nathalie Walter: Estate and Charlottenfels Palace. Swiss Art Guide Series 97, No. 965, published by the Society for Swiss Art History , Bern 2015.
11. ↑ Kurt Waldvogel: Dietrich Woessner. Swiss father of roses and honorary citizen. In: Schaffhauser Magazin. Volume 21, No. 2, 1998, p. 21.