page_title: Thayngen
section_title: Heritage sites of national significance
hierarchical_section_title: Thayngen / Heritage sites of national significance
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Prähistorische Höhle "Kesslerloch" bei Thayngen (Nr. 03.1-5311)
context_page_description: Thayngen is a village and a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009 Altdorf, Bibern, Hofen, Opfertshofen merged into Thayngen.
context_section_description: There are two houses and two prehistoric sites in Thayngen that are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.  In the town, the Haus zum Hirzen at Schulstrasse 3, and the Haus zum Rebstock at Im Oberhof 4 are the two significant houses.  The prehistoric sites are the Kesslerloch which was a paleolithic cave and the Weier, a neolithic river bank settlement.  The settlements Weier I-III are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
caption: Prehistoric cave dwelling at Kesslerloch
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