Dörflingen
Doerflingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
The community is surrounded on three out of four sides by German territory. It forms a stop of a few hundred meters wide, which Büsingen separates from the remaining German territory and makes it an exclave.
The center of Doerflingen is listed in the inventory of estimable townscapes Switzerland ( ISOS ) and is thus an ensemble under monument protection.
Geography
Doerflingen is an old farming village, in the earlier prevailed in particular agriculture and viticulture. 1875 took a 25 ha vineyard of the community area. In recent decades, the place became more and more a residential community with many commuters. In 2005 there were still 24 active farms on site.
Population
Policy
Mayor 's Pentti Aellig (as of 2011 ).
History
The place was already in 1264 as Dorfelingen documentary called, as he fell to the Habsburgs.
1535 the Reformation was introduced as part of the Doerflinger iconoclasm.
1651 the community for independent parish was charged. The church still standing was built in 1689.
Together with the town of Stein am Rhein and the communities Ramsen and Hemishofen Doerflingen was allocated against the will of the population in 1798 in the Helvetic Republic, the Canton of Schaffhausen. So far, they belonged to Zurich. Doerflingen was swapped Ellikon am Rhein.
2006 saw a church renovation. The Metzler organ from 1941 was dismantled, a new instrument of Stans Erni was inaugurated in 2007.
Coat of arms
Blazon
The oldest evidence of the Doerflinger coat of arms can be found on a plate crack in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and dates from the second half of the 16th century. It already shows a plow shares, over which hovers an isosceles cross. The knowledge of this coat of arms was lost over time. All the more surprising that the crest is back on the seal of the municipality at the beginning of the 19th century. The only difference is that the lower beam of the cross has been extended and is now stuck on the plowshares.
The plowshares as symbol indicates the arable shaft. The white cross is an example of the spread in the old Confederation custom of wearing a white cross as Erkennungsmal on armor or clothing. As a tincture in 1951 that of Zurich (lead white) is selected.