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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Freiburg

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
16,859 (31 Dec 2008)

State
  
Baden-Württemberg

District
  
Waldshut

Postal codes
  
79701–79713

Local time
  
Tuesday 1:10 AM

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Weather
  
9°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 75% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Rhine, Schloss Schönau, Trompetenmuseum, Wild Kids, Müllmuseum Wallbach

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Bad Säckingen is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is famous as the "Trumpeteer's City" because of the book "The Trumpeteer of Säckingen", a famous 19th-century novel by German author Joseph Victor von Scheffel.

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Geography

Bad Säckingen is located in the very southwest of Germany next to the Swiss border on the river Rhine. The city lies on the southern edge of the Black Forest area.

Nearby places

  • Close (<15 km): Wallbach, Wehr (Baden), Murg am Hochrhein, Laufenburg (Baden), Stein AG, Rheinfelden (Schweiz), Rheinfelden (Baden), Rickenbach (Hotzenwald)
  • Further away (>15 km): Waldshut-Tiengen, Schopfheim, Lörrach, Basel, Brugg AG, Aarau AG, Zürich, Schaffhausen SH, St. Blasien, Todtmoos, Freiburg i.Br., Konstanz.
  • History

    The history of the city dates back to the early 6th Century, when Saint Fridolin founded Säckingen Abbey and a church. Around 1200 most of the city was destroyed in a huge fire. Afterwards, construction began in the middle of the town on a Gothic cathedral, called the Fridolinsmünster, which can still be visited today.

    Transport

  • Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen
  • Bad Säckingen station
  • People

  • Joseph Victor von Scheffel, (1826-1886), author of the book "Der Trompeter von Säckingen"
  • Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504-1564), was successively the wife of three important reformers Oecolampadius, Capito and Bucer
  • Karl Agricola (1779-1852), painter and engraver
  • Axel Neumann (born 1966), actor
  • Baki Davrak (born 1971), actor
  • Stefanie Böhler (born 1981), cross-country skier
  • Twin towns

  • Sanary-sur-Mer, France (1973)
  • Purkersdorf, Austria (1973)
  • Nagai, Yamagata, Japan (1983)
  • Santeramo, Italy (1983)
  • Näfels, Switzerland (1988)
  • References

    Bad Säckingen Wikipedia