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Stein am Rhein
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municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Schaffhausen
- District
- n.a.
- Executive
- Stadtrat , with 5 members
- Mayor
- Stadtpräsident (list) , Sönke Bandixen Ind. , (as of September 2017)
- Parliament
- Einwohnerrat , with 15 members
- Total
- 6.05 km (2.34 sq mi)
- Elevation ehem benedektinerkloster st ge
- 401 m (1,316 ft)
- Density
- 589/km (1,520/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-SH
- Surrounded by
- Eschenz ( TG ), Hemishofen , Öhningen ( DE-BW ), Wagenhausen (TG)
- Website
- www.steinamrhein.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Named after
- Rhine
- Official name
- Stein am Rhein
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of Schaffhausen
- Official language
- Swiss High German
- Population
- 3414
- Area
- 5.78
- Elevation
- 571
- Body of water
- Lake Constance
- Shares border with
- Eschenz
- Official website
- www.steinamrhein.ch
- Image
- Stein am Rhein - Stadtkirche und Kloster St.Georgen.jpg
- Dialing code
- 052
- Licence plate code
- SH
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- Commons category
- Stein am Rhein
- postal code
- 8260
- topic's main category
- Category:Stein am Rhein
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- Stein am Rhein
- native label
- Stein am Rhein
- described at URL
- minio.e-mitwirkung.ch/cms.e-mitwirkung.ch/sar/2_Inputreferat_Siedlungsentwicklung.pdf
- P8168
- Mana Iwabuchi
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/2964
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Stein District
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Encyclopedic overview
Stein am Rhein ( Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈʃtaɪn am ˈraɪn], lit. 'Stein on the Rhine'; abbreviated as Stein a. R.) is a historic town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. It is located at the outfall of Lower Lake Constance on the High Rhine river, about halfway between the town of Schaffhausen and the city of Konstanz.
The town's medieval centre retains the ancient street plan. The site of the city wall, and the city gates are preserved, though the former city wall now consists of houses. The medieval part of the town has been pedestrianised and many of the medieval buildings are painted with frescoes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stein am Rhein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.