page_title: Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland
section_title: Schaffhausen
hierarchical_section_title: Flags and arms of cantons of Switzerland / History / Schaffhausen
caption_attribution_description: Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Wappenscheibe der Stadt Schaffhausen
context_page_description: Each of the 26 modern cantons of Switzerland has an official flag and a coat of arms.
  The history of development of these designs spans the 13th to the 20th centuries.
context_section_description: The flag is documented from 1218. The crown was added to the ram in 1512. The ram was originally rampant with only the rear left hoof on the ground, but in the 1940s this was changed to the salient position with both rear hooves on the ground.
caption: Standesscheibe with the old form of the coat of arms where the ram is shown as leaping from the window of a tower.
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