Schleitheim is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland, located directly on the border with Germany. It is known as the location where the seven articles of the Schleitheim Confession were written. Schleitheim has an area, as of 2006, of 21.5 km2 (8.3 sq mi). Of this area, 58.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 6.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.3%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The area of today's Schleitheim was already settled in Roman times. A vicus at that time bore the name Iuliomagus. In 995 the German name is attested for the first time as Sleitheim. This name stems from Old High German sleit (English: 'gently sloping, inclined') and Old High German heim (English: 'house, residence'), meaning "settlement on a gentle slope on the inclined plain." More information...
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