Gächlingen
Gächlingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
Geography
Gächlingen is located on the northern edge of the Swiss Klettgau, ( there called Chläggi ) at the foot of Hallauerberg. North of Gächlingen connects the ridge of Hallauerberg on the Siblingerhöhe with the Long Randen, a southern foothills of the Randen.
The Chläggi - northern edge is occupied in a direct line to the German border out of the villages Oberhallau, Hallau and Trasadingen.
Policy
The Mayor is Kurt Salvisberg (as of 2010 ).
Traffic
With Schaffhausen bus Gächlingen is easily reached in 25 minutes from the Schaffhausen Train ago. The bus usually every half hour, frequently commuting time.
Nearest train station is in nine parishes in the Upper Rhine Railway (Basel - Schaffhausen- Singen ( Hohentwiel ) ), which is now operated by the Deutsche Bahn.
Gächlingen is located between the highways Waldshut- Schaffhausen ( German designation B 34) and ( limit at Oberwiesen ) Schleitheim - Schaffhausen, with an interval of about 3 km in both directions. In East-West direction also exist local connections to Siblingen and Oberhallau.
Nearest airport is Zurich Airport, about 45 km south of Gächlingen. Zurich Airport is also accessible by the S.16 SBB from Schaffhausen quickly.
History
In Gächlingen the oldest remains of sedentary farmers have been found in Switzerland. The finds are dated to the end of the 6th millennium BC. Back then wandered a small group of Neolithic farmers and ranchers from the upper reaches of the Danube in the south. This group built on the western edge of today's Gächlingen a small hamlet of residential and farm buildings.
In the region around Gächlingen the settlers found a good basis to survive in a maximum of one day's journey from the buildings removed: flint for the manufacture of sharp tools and weapons at Südranden, coarse - and fine-grained sandstones for millstones and grindstones in Wutachtal, clayey loam for the construction and for the production of cooking and eating utensils in the settlement area itself, good timber and firewood in the surrounding woods.
Finds from Gächlingen and a model of Neolithic settlements are exhibited in the museum at All Saints in Schaffhausen.
Coat of arms
Blazon
The oldest tradition of the emblem can be found on a coat of arms disc from 1572, located in the Museum of All Saints. On this disc, however, the plowshares and pruning hooks are on the exchanged places. 1602 we find the first seal of the municipality on a mortgage note. In this seal the Rebmesser is already on the left ( heraldic: right) side. In the following centuries, the coat of arms changed only slightly. So again is the plowshares in the middle, while the Rebmesser bulges with the edge of the spitz. A cleanup of the arms eventually led to today's, but historically proven crest.