Trossingen
Trossingen | |
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The town hall of Trossingen | |
Location of Trossingen within Tuttlingen district | |
Coordinates: 48°04′32″N 08°38′10″E / 48.07556°N 8.63611°ECoordinates: 48°04′32″N 08°38′10″E / 48.07556°N 8.63611°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Baden-Württemberg |
Admin. region | Freiburg |
District | Tuttlingen |
Government | |
• Mayor | Dr. Clemens Maier |
Area | |
• Total | 24.2 km2 (9.3 sq mi) |
Elevation | 699 m (2,293 ft) |
Population (2015-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 16,123 |
• Density | 670/km2 (1,700/sq mi) |
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
Postal codes | 78635–78647 |
Dialling codes | 07425 |
Vehicle registration | TUT |
Website | www.trossingen.de |
Trossingen is a town in South Germany (Baden-Württemberg). It is in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest.
Trossingen is called a "music town". It has around 16,000 people who live there, there is the 'University of Music Trossingen', which is one of Baden-Württemberg's state conservatories, and there are other institutions specialized in musical education, like the 'Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung' and the 'Hohner Konservatorium'. In 1857 the Matthias Hohner company was founded. Today, Hohner harmonicas and accordions are famous all over the world. Trossingen houses the German Harmonica Museum, too. Trossingen also has a historic railway: the Trossinger Eisenbahn. Several skeletons of the dinosaur Plateosaurus engelhardti were found in Trossingen during excavations in the early 20th century. The local museum Auberlehaus houses several of the original bones.
Distances[change | change source]
- Stuttgart (capital of Baden-Württemberg): about 120 km (74.6 mi).
- Berlin (capital of Germany): about 750 km (466.0 mi).
- the Black forest: about 15 km (9.3 mi).
- Switzerland: about 50 km (31.1 mi).
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2018 (4. Quartal)". DESTATIS. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland nach Fläche, Bevölkerung und Postleitzahl am 30.09.2016". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
Other websites[change | change source]
Media related to Trossingen at Wikimedia Commons