Beggingen

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

Policy

Mayor Mike Schneider (2009).

Traffic

Regularly from Beggingen buses stop on Schleitheim to Schaffhausen.

There is a side street to Schleitheim, from where the main road 14 continues towards Freiburg im Breisgau or Schaffhausen. Other small side street leading across the border to Fützen in Germany ( paved road ), and the edge crossing to Hemmental (partially paved road ).

Coat of arms

Blazon

The coat of arms of the municipality Beggingen made ​​in the course of history through several changes. The oldest is a silver plowshares on a red background. 1597 finds the most extraordinary crest: From a lying silver plowshares, a black ram is growing with yellow background. This coat of arms joined the peasant culture with the origin of the name Beggingen, the herleitete from Böckingen and suggesting that the association with the goat. Over the next 200 years you learn nothing of a coat of arms. 1795 appeared for the first time a seal on the two above the other, plowshares. At the town meeting in 1950 the citizens was the coat of arms of 1597 and the proposed 1795, the latter asserted itself eventually.

History

In the 10th century Beggingen passed through a donation to the monastery of Reichenau.

In 1530 Beggingen and Schleitheim went in exchange for Grafenhausen and birch village of the country county Stühlingen to the town of Schaffhausen on.

Dinosaur Fund

On 24 May 1962, a student of a seminary class Schaffhauser discovered under the leadership of Hans breakfast during a trip to Beggingen on Allerstieg a vertebra of a ichthyosaur from the Lias with 12 cm diameter. The following excavations revealed a tail of about 1.20 m length. In the fall of 1962, a further 30 vertebrae were found in a re-excavation, had the smallest still 4 cm in diameter.

Attractions