Cielo arancione e blu tempestoso sopra le torri illuminate dal sole, le tane e i tetti in tegole dell'Altstadt o della città vecchia di Schaffhausen, accanto all'Alto Reno nella Svizzera settentrionale. Le strade prive di traffico sono fiancheggiate da molte belle gilde gotiche, rinascimentali e barocche o case mercantili con finestre a bovindo e sontuosi affreschi esterni.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 luglio 2010
Ubicazione:
Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen canton, Switzerland
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Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland: storm clouds mass above the ancient towers, stepped gables and steep-pitched roofs of the picturesque Altstadt or old town in this view from the battlements of the 16th century circular Munot fortress. The Romanesque tower with a Gothic spire to the left was built in the 12th century to serve the basilica church of the medieval Benedictine abbey of All Saints, now the Münsterkirche, a Protestant minster or cathedral. To the right stands the tower of the Kirche St Johann (St John), a triple-aisled Gothic building that replaced earlier churches on the site in the late-1300s. 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 monastery of All Saints and the town grew around it. It was an Imperial free city from about 1200 AD and in 1277, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I gave it a charter of liberties. In 1330, 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 destroyed by fire. The mainly traffic-free old town has remains of ancient city walls, fountain statues and many fine Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque guild and merchant houses with oriel windows and lavish external frescoes and sculpture. D1176.B4044
