Stühlingen

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Stühlingen
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Stühlingen
Stühlingen (Germany)
Stühlingen
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region Freiburg
District Waldshut
Mayor Isolde Schäfer
Basic statistics
Area 93.20 km² (36 sq mi)
Elevation 501 m  (1644 ft)
Population 5,283  (31/12/2005)
 - Density 57 /km² (147 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate WT
Postal codes 79778–79780
Area codes 07703, 07709, 07743, 07744
Website www.stuehlingen.de

Coordinates: 47°44′43″N 8°26′45″E / 47.74528, 8.44583

Landgrafschaft Stühlingen
Landgraviate of Stühlingen
State of the Holy Roman Empire
Duchy of Swabia
1120 – 1806 Grand Duchy of Baden
Capital Stühlingen
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 - Established 1120
 - To Kussenberg* 1172
 - To Lupfen 1251
 - Purchased by Pappenheim 1582
 - To Fürstenberg 1639
 - Mediatised to Baden 1806
* All transfers were on the extinction of the previous comital lines.
† Inheritance by Pappenheim settled in 1603, after the payment of 80,000 gulden twenty years previously.

Stühlingen is a town in the Waldshut district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the border with Switzerland, 15 km northwest of Schaffhausen.