page_title: Büsingen am Hochrhein
section_title: Vehicle registration
hierarchical_section_title: Büsingen am Hochrhein / Peculiarities of Büsingen am Hochrhein / Vehicle registration
caption_attribution_description: An old style West German plate, non-reflective from Busingen. Busingen is part of Germany but it is an enclave surrounded entirely by Switzerland. See comments for more detail.
context_page_description: Büsingen am Hochrhein, commonly known as Büsingen, is a German municipality in the south of Baden-Württemberg and an exclave entirely surrounded by territory belonging to Switzerland. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabitants. Since the early 19th century, the village has been separated from the rest of Germany by a narrow strip of land containing the Swiss village of Dörflingen.
  Politically Büsingen is part of Germany, forming part of the district of Konstanz, but economically it forms part of the Swiss customs union, along with the principality of Liechtenstein and up until 2019, albeit unofficially, the Italian village of Campione d'Italia. As such there have been no border controls between Switzerland and Büsingen since 4 October 1967.
  Büsingen is a holiday destination for much of the year and attracts a significant number of visitors from around the region as well as from further afield, for its recreational areas along the Rhine and proximity to the Rheinfall waterfalls in nearby Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Many dwellings in Büsingen are holiday flats which are accompanied by a number of small guest houses.
context_section_description: Büsingen has its own license plate (BÜS), even though it is part of Constance district which has the KN sign. These special licence plates were created to simplify the job of Swiss customs officers. Vehicles with BÜS licence plates are treated as if they were Swiss vehicles for customs purposes.
  BÜS is one of the rarest license plates in use in Germany as there are only around 700 in use at any one time. The letters BÜS are almost always followed by an A with the occasional exception for provisionally admitted vehicles or those purchased in Switzerland which have the letter Z.
caption: An example of the BÜS license plate
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