La Hochrhein ou le Haut Rhin à Schaffhausen, au nord de la Suisse, est enjambée par un pont routier moderne reliant Feuerthalen (à gauche) à l'Altstadt ou la vieille ville (à droite), avec la tour romane de 12th siècles et la flèche gothique du Münsterkirche, Autrefois la basilique d'une abbaye bénédictine mais maintenant une cathédrale ou un minster protestant.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
21 juillet 2010
Lieu:
Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen canton, Switzerland
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Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland: the landmark 12th century Romanesque tower and Gothic spire of the Münsterkirche, once the basilica church of a medieval Benedictine abbey but now a Protestant minster or cathedral, rises beyond one of the modern road bridges spanning the Hochrhein or High Rhine. The bridge, decorated with flowers, links Schaffhausen’s Altstadt or old town, on the northern or right bank of the river, to the suburb of Feuerthalen on the southern or left bank. Schaffhausen is one of four Swiss towns on the north side of the High Rhine. It was a city state in the Middle Ages, striking its own coins from 1045. Five years later, the counts of Nellenburg founded the Benedictine monastery of All Saints and the town grew around it. It was an Imperial free city from around 1200 AD and in 1277, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I gave it a charter of liberties. In 1330, the emperor Louis of Bavaria pledged Schaffhausen to the Hapsburgs, but their power waned and it eventually bought its independence. Schaffhausen then allied itself with some Swiss confederate states, becoming a full member of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1501. The town was badly damaged by Swedish and Bavarian troops during the Thirty Years’ War of the early 1600s and its ancient Rhine bridge was burnt down. The traffic-free old town has ancient city walls, the imposing 16th century Munot fortress, fountain statues and many fine Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque guild and merchant houses with oriel windows and lavish external frescoes and sculpture. D1175.B4034
