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The Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall [ˈʁaɪnfal] ⓘ, a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the most powerful waterfall in Europe. [2] [3] [1] The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Schaffhausen (SH) and Zürich (ZH), between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH), next to the town of ...
It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance [2] overlooking the Rhine Falls. The first documented reference to the castle dates to the year 858 when it was the home of the Barons of Laufen. It passed through several owners until the Old Zürich War (1439–1450) when the castle was acquired by the Fulach family, from whom the city of ...
Neuhausen am Rheinfall (sometimes abbreviated as Neuhausen a. Rhf., [3] called Neuhausen until 1938) is a town and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The town is close to the Rhine Falls (German: Rheinfall), mainland Europe's largest waterfall.
Rhine Falls: Schaffhausen: Schaffhausen: Largest waterfalls in Europe (150 m wide, 23 m high) Mürrenbach Fall: Lauterbrunnental: Bern: Highest waterfall in Switzerland Engstligen Falls: Adelboden: Berne Foroglio Fall: Foroglio: Ticino Giessbach Falls: Brienz: Berne Reichenbach Falls: Meiringen: Berne: World famous thanks to Sherlock Holmes ...
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is a 1788 landscape painting by the French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] It shows a scene on the Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, near Schaffhausen, in Switzerland. Loutherbourg visited the country that year where he produced this work in the emerging style of Romanticism.
The High Rhine The Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen (Switzerland) The High Rhine (Hochrhein) begins in Stein am Rhein at the western end of the Untersee. Now flowing generally westwards, it passes over the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall) below Schaffhausen before being joined – near Koblenz in the canton of Aargau – by its major tributary, the Aare.