Münster Schaffhausen

Münster Schaffhausen
Entrance of Münster Schaffhausen and the Kloster Allerheiligen
Religion
AffiliationReformed
DistrictEvangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Schaffhausen
Location
LocationSchaffhausen
Switzerland
Geographic coordinates47°41′41.63″N 8°38′12.3″E / 47.6948972°N 8.636750°E / 47.6948972; 8.636750
Architecture
TypeBasilica
StyleRomanesque Architecture, Gothic Revival
FounderEberhard von Nellenburg
Date established22 November 1049 (1049-11-22)
Groundbreaking1049
Completed1064 (1064)
Direction of façadewest
Website
Official website (in German)

Münster is one of the two main churches of the old town of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. First built in 1064 AD as a Romanesque Basilica of the then Benedictine Kloster Allerheiligen, it was rebuilt several times, and became in 1524 the Reformed Church of the city of Schaffhausen.