Wilchingen
Sign in to saveWilchingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The former municipality of Osterfingen was incorporated into Wilchingen in 2005.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Wilchingen
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Wilchingen 097.JPG
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- Flag of Wilchingen.gif
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Wilchingen.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Schaffhausen
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-SH
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 8217
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2974
- Swiss town.area
- 21.10
- Swiss town.elevation
- 419
- Swiss town.population
- 1692
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2008
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2008
- Swiss town.website
- www.wilchingen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Dettighofen (DE-BW), Eggingen (DE-BW), Hallau, Jestetten (DE-BW), Klettgau (DE-BW), Neunkirch, Trasadingen
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Wilchingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The former municipality of Osterfingen was incorporated into Wilchingen in 2005.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Wilchingen has an area, , of . Of this area, 50.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 42.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). In 2005 the village of Osterfingen merged into Wilchingen.