Lohn, Schaffhausen
Wage is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland.
Geography
Wage is on the high plateau of Reiat, the sun terrace of the Canton of Schaffhausen. The total area of the municipality is 486.6 ha, of which 167.9 ha of forest and 30.4 ha development area. The village center (church) located at 640 m above sea level, the lowest point is in the " oblong box Brunn " at 480 m above sea level, the highest in the " Dicki " to 674 m asl
Population
The community wage total counts 645 inhabitants (as of March 2005), of which voting rights are 454 The population comprises 160 Lohnemer citizens, permanent residents and 35 450 foreigners.
Denominational divides the population as follows: 439 evangelical reformed, 102 Catholic, 7, and 97 other non-denominational.
Policy
Community president is Vreni Wipf Scherrer (July 2011).
Traffic
The community wage is 8 km from the center of the capital of the canton of Schaffhausen and 3 km from the former county seat Thayngen. The next driveway on the A4 towards Zurich, airport or Stuttgart is 5.4 km away.
There is also a dense schedule offered by " Schaffhausen bus (line 24). " The buses run every hour and at peak times every half hour.
School
In reward, there are two mixed classes with Fourth - fifth-and sixth -graders, and a kindergarten ( students from the communities of wage and Büttenhardt ). The first to third class is in Büttenhardt, the secondary school in Herblingen (Schaffhausen).
History
The first written record of the village wage took place on 10 May 1238. Knight Heinrich von Liebenberg, a kyburgischer ministerial or service man who was desperate to get permission from his master, Count Hartmann of the elders of Kyburg, his wife Bertha heiress of all his goods, and While on the way the so-called substitution. Among the transferred goods there is also a personal property in wages. The original of this Ersterwähnungsurkunde is preserved in the State Archives of the Canton of Zurich. 1259 gave the Count of Kyburg the district pay the monastery paradise. On April 14, 1529 Bailiwick was sold for 145 florins to pay the town of Schaffhausen. In the village there is also the mother church of all the surrounding villages of Reiat. Already 1743 is known, which was sold to the area of wages, white clay of good quality as far as Strasbourg. The first brick hut was but probably in the 14th century. Today, two brick kilns are still standing in the village.
Coat of arms
Blazon
The oldest depiction of a coat of arms of the municipality of wages is found 1569th It is an upright plowshares in yellow dar. end of the 16th century there is a representation of red and gold with a split plate, occupied by a six -pointed star in confounded color. A further illustration of this period provides an upright, blue grape on white constitute grounds for the time of the Helvetic Republic introduced the Seal of symbols typical of this period, the hat of freedom over a plumb line, dar. The following mediation is turned away from this seal and created a new, upright plow shares representing seal. To prevent differentiation with other similar coat of arms, was proposed in 1949 during cleanup, bring the plowshares to in connection with a brick model, as a symbol of the flourishing trade for centuries. However, this was eventually rejected.
Attractions
Church of reward: This architecturally very significant landmark of Reiat that has been consecrated at the time the holy Martin, is indeed relatively late, on February 1, 1259 first mentioned, but let both its location and in particular also the Frankish patron saint - the other Martin Church in Canton, Merishausen is, for example, testified in the year 846 - in all probability a much earlier origin also, perhaps as early as the 9th or 10th century, close.
Personalities
- Conrad Beck (1901-1989), composer