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Hofen

former municipality and current locality in Thayngen in the canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Place village Q660142
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Summary

Hofen is a village[1]. Hofen ranks in the top 0.46% of village entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58 views/month, #234 of 50,837).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Thayngen[3], Canton of Schaffhausen[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Instance of: former municipality of Switzerland[6], Ortsteil[7]
  • Official language: German[8]
  • Postal code: 8242[9]
  • Commons category: Hofen SH[10]
  • Licence plate code: SH[11]
  • Local dialing code: 052[12]
  • Official website: http://www.hofen.ch/[13]
  • Replaced by: Thayngen[14]
  • Contains settlement: Thayngen[15]
  • Official name: Hofen SH[16]
  • Native label: Hofen[17]
  • Elevation above sea level: 474 m[18]
  • Area: 1.05 km²[19]
  • P14976: EB657FBB-A815-4B51-94C8-327CEB21E792[20]

Why It Matters

Hofen has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Hofen is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → EB657FBB-A815-4B51-94C8-327CEB21E792
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: EB657FBB-A815-4B51-94C8-327CEB21E792, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 7d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.hofen.ch/
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Contains settlement → Thayngen
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ source for position, default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
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