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SCHAFFHAUSEN

! E2 ⌂ 46 km (29 miles) N of Zurich £ @ n Herrenacker 15;
schaffhauserland.ch
Capital of the canton of the same name, the picturesque medieval
EXPERIENCE Eastern Switzerland and Graubünden
town of Schaffhausen is set on the north bank of the Rhine, upriver
from the spectacular cataracts known as the Rheinfall.

Thanks to its location at the point where the Mohrenbrunnen, with a statue of a Moorish
falls forced ships to unload their cargoes, the king. A short walk to the southeast stands
town was an important centre of trade from the austere Romanesque Münster, part of an
the early Middle Ages. The streets of its Altstadt 11th-century Benedictine abbey. The adjoining
(Old Town) are lined with Gothic, Renaissance, mon astery is now home to a museum with
Baroque and Rococo buildings, such as the pre his toric finds and Swiss art. The abbey
Haus zum Ritter, boasting frescoed façades clois ters hold the Schillerglocke, whose sound
and oriel windows. At the centre of its his toric inspired German poet Friedrich Schiller to write
core lies Fronwagplatz, a square with two the “Song of the Bell”. Above the town to the
16th-century fountains, the Metzgerbrunnen, east lies the Munot, whose keep offers fine
topped by a statue of a mercenary, and the views of the town, the river and the countryside.

Statue
depicting a
soldier at
the Platz

The circular keep of the 16th-century
Munot, now the symbol of Schaffhausen

The Haus zum Ritter, with a façade covered in
Renaissance frescoes dating from 1568–70
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