Verenahof

The Verenahof ( also referred to as deckle Harter farm or farms Verena ) is a filled with three residential area which was an exclave of the German former town Wiechs am Randen until 1967. From this it was separated by a 200 to 300 meter wide strip Swiss territory. Together with Wiechs am Randen belonged originally to the front of the court county Tengen.

1806 fell their sovereign rights to Baden, so that the Verenahof to Baden enclave within the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen was. 1815 and 1839 failed Swiss attempts to obtain the Verenahof.

At the end of the Second World War, members of the SS saved to the field of Verena court and tried as to avoid capture. They could be moved eventually by Swiss negotiators to task.

By 1964 concluded treaty between Germany and Switzerland, which came into force on 4 October 1967, the 43 -ha area of Verenahofs came in the wake of a territorial exchange to Switzerland. Today the area is part of the Swiss municipality of Verenahofs Büttenhardt. In Wiechs am Randen, at the Town Hall, and in Büttenhardt, with the old school house, are still the old boundary stones as souvenirs.