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Also known as Gächlingen SH, Gachlingen, Gaechlingen

Gächlingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Gächlingen
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
Klettgau Aussicht.jpg
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Gächlingen COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Gächlingen Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Schaffhausen
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-SH
Swiss town.district
n.a.
Swiss town.postal_code
8214
Swiss town.municipality_code
2901
Swiss town.area
7.13
Swiss town.elevation
460
Swiss town.population
764
Swiss town.populationof
December 2008
Swiss town.popofyear
2008
Swiss town.website
gaechlingen.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Neunkirch, Oberhallau, Schleitheim, Siblingen

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Heritage sites of national significance
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Economy
  • References
  • External links

Gächlingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.

==History== thumb|left|Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1923) An area near Gächlingen was the site of the first settlement in Switzerland. This Linear Band Ceramic settlement dates to about 6000BC and is the first long-term, farming community in the borders of modern Switzerland. Gächlingen is first mentioned in a 10th Century forgery as Câhtelinga. In 1049 it was mentioned as Gehtelinga.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gächlingen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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