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Büsingen               (German exclave in Switzerland)

Büsingen is a 7,6 km² area with a population of 1500 persons at Schaffhausen. 

I visited Büsingen for the first time on 18 July 2006. On the map pages I have included links to Mr Hugh Wallis' very interesting Büsingen page (high resolution map).

More information is to come soon.


Jan visiting Büsingen am Hochrein. Photo: Severia Krogh.
Litterature:

Dr. Philipp Daum: Die Exklave Büsingen von 1939–1964, 2. Auflage mit eimen Blick auf die Vorkriegszeit, Krämer Verlag (65 pp.), Büsingen-Hochrein, 1982, ISBN 3-921611-05-9 

Otto Weiner: Büsingen am Hochrein + Die reichsdeutsche Insel in der Schweitz (144 pp.), Verlag Gemeinde Büsingen, 1938

Links:

Wikipedia: Büsingen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Büsingen

«German island in Switzerland» (English, German):  http://www.buesingen.de/

 This page was last time updated 26/08/06 .