Bargen

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Bargen

Total population

290

Coordinates47.79°, 8.61°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Bargen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. The northernmost point of the country is situated in the municipality, at Oberbargen.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Otto Lueger

German engineer (1843–1911)

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Winfried Fluck

German academic

Gerold Bührer

Swiss politician

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Markus Kutter

Swiss politician and historian (1925-2005)

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Walter Pfeiffer

Swiss photographer (1946- )

Otto Sauter

German musician

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Andreas Schaad

Swiss Nordic combined skier

Thomas A. Frank

German author

Christine Muscheler-Frohne

German politician

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Edmund Kuppel

German artist (born 1947)

Franz Christoph von Scheyb

(1704-1777)

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Gustaf Adolf Wanner

Swiss historian (1911-1984)

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Hans Ruh

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Natascha Ungeheuer

German painter

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Laux Maler

renaissance luthier

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Fritz Peter

German mathematician (1899-1949)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Convolvulus Hawkmoth

Agrius convolvuli

Seen 2026-09-23

Forest Bug

Pentatoma rufipes

Seen 2026-09-17

European Chub

Squalius cephalus

Seen 2026-09-14

Common Buzzard

Buteo buteo

Seen 2026-09-10

Red Kite

Milvus milvus

Seen 2026-09-08

Lurid Bolete

Suillellus luridus

Seen 2026-09-07

Lapidary Snail

Helicigona lapicida

Seen 2026-09-03

Cheese Snail

Helicodonta obvoluta

Seen 2026-09-03

Cicindela sylvicola

Cicindela sylvicola

Seen 2026-09-03

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).