Trasadingen
title: "Trasadingen" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-the-canton-of-schaffhausen", "germany–switzerland-border-crossings"] topic_path: "geography/germany" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trasadingen" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| subject_name | Trasadingen |
| municipality_type | municipality |
| image_photo | Trasadingen 144.JPG |
| imagepath_coa | Wappen Trasadingen.png |
| canton | Schaffhausen |
| iso-code-region | CH-SH |
| district | n.a. |
| coordinates | |
| postal_code | 8219 |
| municipality_code | 2973 |
| area | 4.14 |
| elevation | 403 |
| population | 585 |
| website | www.trasadingen.ch |
| mayor | |
| mayor_title | |
| neighboring_municipalities | Eggingen (DE-BW), Hallau, Klettgau (DE-BW), Wilchingen |
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| subject_name = Trasadingen | municipality_type = municipality | image_photo = Trasadingen 144.JPG | imagepath_coa = Wappen Trasadingen.png|pixel_coa= | canton = Schaffhausen | iso-code-region = CH-SH | district = n.a. |coordinates = | postal_code = 8219 | municipality_code = 2973 | area = 4.14 | elevation = 403|elevation_description= | population = 585 |populationof = December 2008 | popofyear = 2008 | website = www.trasadingen.ch | mayor = |mayor_asof=|mayor_party= | mayor_title = |list_of_mayors = | places = | demonym = | neighboring_municipalities= Eggingen (DE-BW), Hallau, Klettgau (DE-BW), Wilchingen | twintowns = |}} Trasadingen is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Trasadingen_116.JPG" caption="Trasadingen"] ::
Geography
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Trasadingen has an area, , of 4.1 km2. Of this area, 76.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 11% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes).
Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, a Vine Vert fructed Azure issuant from a Cross pattee of the second and in chief dexter a Cross pattee Sable and sinister a Sickle proper.
Demographics
Trasadingen has a population () of 585, of which 13.7% are foreign nationals. Of the foreign population, (), 61.7% are from Germany, 23.5% are from Italy, 1.2% are from Turkey, and 13.6% are from another country. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 2.6%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.8%), with Italian being second most common ( 0.8%) and English being third ( 0.4%).
The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 23.8% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 59.1% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 17.1%.
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 46.6% of the vote. The next two most popular parties were the SP (28.4%), and the FDP (25%) .
In Trasadingen about 83.5% of the population (between age 25–64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). In Trasadingen, , 1.72% of the population attend kindergarten or another pre-school, 5.66% attend a Primary School, 3.95% attend a lower level Secondary School, and 2.23% attend a higher level Secondary School.
, 21.7% of the population belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 61.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
The historical population is given in the following table: ::data[format=table]
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 560 |
| 2000 | 562 |
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Transportation
There is a border crossing into Germany at Trasadingen town with Erzingen in Klettgau municipality, Baden-Württemberg state. Both have railway stations on the High Rhine Railway: and , respectively.
Economy
Trasadingen has an unemployment rate of 1.82%. , there were 61 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 23 businesses involved in this sector. 93 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 6 businesses in this sector. 74 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 22 businesses in this sector.
the mid year average unemployment rate was 1%. There were 29 non-agrarian businesses in the municipality and 57% of the (non-agrarian) population was involved in the secondary sector of the economy while 43% were involved in the third. At the same time, 67.1% of the working population was employed full-time, and 32.9% was employed part-time. There were 158 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 45.6% of the workforce. there were 82 residents who worked in the municipality, while 162 residents worked outside Trasadingen and 75 people commuted into the municipality for work.
, there are 2 restaurants and the hospitality industry in Trasadingen employs 8 people.
References
References
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- [http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] accessed 30-December-2009
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