Trossingen
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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ' N , 8 ° 38' E |
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| State : | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Administrative region : | Freiburg | |
| County : | Tuttlingen | |
| Height : | 699 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 24.2 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 16,829 (Dec. 31, 2018) | |
| Population density : | 695 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 78647 | |
| Area code : | 07425 | |
| License plate : | DOES | |
| Community key : | 08 3 27 049 | |
City administration address : |
Schultheiß-Koch-Platz 1 78647 Trossingen |
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| Mayor : | Clemens Maier | |
| Location of the city of Trossingen in the Tuttlingen district | ||
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Trossingen is a small town on the Baar in Baden-Württemberg . The second largest city in the Tuttlingen district is located in the middle of the Black Forest-Baar-Heuberg region . The university town of Trossingen is the seat of a state music academy , a traditional musical instrument industry as well as various national musical institutions and several associations in the field of music. Trossingen therefore also describes itself as a city of music .
geography
Geographical location
Trossingen is 660 to 760 m above sea level. NHN on the Baar plateau . The district of Trossingen is located on the Trosselbach , which flows into the Hagenbach and further into the Prim . The district of Schura , about one kilometer to the south, is traversed by the European watershed and is located on the Schönbach , which drains over the Elta into the Danube . The Neckar flows past Trossingen just a few kilometers west. The Hohenlupfen ( Talheim / Durchhausen ) and Hohenkarpfen ( Gunningen / Hausen ob Verena ) are two striking mountains in the vicinity. The Black Forest begins about 15 kilometers to the west, and the Swabian Alb with the Klippeneck begins about ten kilometers to the east . The source of the Danube in Donaueschingen is around 20 kilometers away, and Lake Constance around 40 kilometers away. The next larger town Villingen-Schwenningen is about 13 kilometers west of Trossingen.
Neighboring communities
Trossingen has entered into an agreed administrative partnership with the communities of Durchhausen , Gunningen and Talheim . Tuningen ( Schwarzwald-Baar district ), Weigheim (city of Villingen-Schwenningen ), Deißlingen (district of Rottweil), Aixheim (municipality of Aldingen) and Aldingen are other neighboring communities for which the city performs various tasks as a sub-center .
City structure
Trossingen consists of the two districts of Trossingen and Schura. The districts are spatially identical to the former communities of the same name and form residential districts in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code . In the Schura district, a locality has been set up in the sense of the Baden-Württemberg municipal code with its own local council and mayor as its chairman.
The village of Schura belongs to the district of Schura. The Trossingen district includes the town of Trossingen, the Bruderhalde, Eschbach, Hirschweiden, Kleiner Heuberg, Löhlebühl and Rennplatz farms, as well as the Deibhalde and Heimgarten houses. The villages of Niederhofen and Sontheim have risen in Trossingen. In addition, the desert areas of Hangendenhausen, Schindlingen and Talhausen are located in Trossingen .
In the 1990s, the new Gölten development area was built on a hill in the southwest of the Trossingen district. It is only about 500 meters north of Shura.
climate
The locals characterize the climate as often harsh and dry. From the southwest, the climate is influenced by the rather cold and dry climate of the Baar, from the north and east by the harsh climate of the Swabian Alb. The average amount of precipitation is 800 to 900 mm, the average annual temperature is 8 ° C, the wind blows mainly from west to south. "Sultry days" are rather rare: four to six days are normal, in the Rhine plain it is 14 days. Frost days are quite common: between 130 and 150 days a year (for comparison: Freiburg average 49, Stuttgart 88).
Trossingen is close to one of the sunniest places in Germany: The Klippeneck , a few kilometers away, has an average of around 1915 hours of sunshine a year.
history
Trossingen as Alamannendorf
Trossingen is located in an area that was inhabited by Celts until 73 AD. Then Roman troops advanced into the region and built several manors in the Trossingen area. When the Alamanni broke through the Limes around 260, the area was abandoned by them after 200 years of Roman rule and taken over by the Alamanni. It is one of the core areas of the Alemannic Duchy, which was annexed to the power of the Franconian kings in 748. As early as 1873, the first Alemannic graves with well-preserved grave goods were uncovered. In 2001 graves were discovered again on the Löhr, including the Trossinger lyre grave, which is now famous among experts .
middle Ages
The place was first mentioned in 797 in a document from the St. Gallen monastery . It was from there that Trossingen was probably also proselytized in the 8th century. In the 9th century the settlements of Sontheim, T (h) alhausen and Hangendenhausen emerged, which later disappeared. In the late Middle Ages the rulership changed several times, as evidenced by contracts between the Reichenau monastery and the imperial city of Rottweil . History books from the 13th century tell of the Mayers of Trossingen, who worked as knightly servants of the monastery until their economic basis deteriorated further in the middle of the 15th century and many (worried about their standard of living) got into debt or sold property. In 1444 Trossingen came to the Tuttlingen staff office and thus to Württemberg .
Early modern age
In 1534, the Reformation was introduced in Trossingen, as in the entire Duchy of Württemberg. The new faith spread rapidly with the help of the Trossingen reformer Johannes Spreter . The place was purely Protestant until the second half of the 19th century. During the Thirty Years' War , Trossingen was completely burned down in 1633 in two raids by the Villingers . The population became dispersed and many people died in those years. Around 1648 Trossingen had 150 inhabitants again and in 1651 got its own pastor, after it had been a branch of Aldingen since 1640.
Also in the second half of the 17th century until 1714, the Trossingers were put to the test when, during the Palatinate and Spanish War of the Elbe , French, Austrian and Bavarian troops marched through with looting. From 1743 to 1746 a new Protestant church was built, which has only been called "Martin Luther Church" since 1933. While Trossingen was initially purely rural, there were craftsmen such as potters, shoemakers, joiners and tailors as early as the 18th century.
When the new administrative structure was implemented in the Kingdom of Württemberg , which was founded in 1806 , Trossingen and the neighboring town of Schura were assigned to the Tuttlingen District Office.
The development to the music city
In 1827 Christian Messner's neighbor (“the watchman”) (also called “Zeug-Christe” because he was a kit maker) brought the first harmonica from Vienna to Trossingen. Christian Messner rebuilt the harmonica in 1830 and became the first "wind maker". He is therefore considered to be the founder of the Trossingen harmonica industry. In 1857 Matthias Hohner founded his own company, which later became Matth. Hohner AG became world famous. In addition to Messner and Hohner, Andreas Koch, Christian Weiß and a few more founded other harmonica factories in 1855, which Hohner took over decades later. From the 1880s onwards, rapid economic development began. Trossingen became the center of the harmonica industry worldwide.
With the privately operated Trossingen Railway , the city gained direct access to the Württemberg railway network in 1896 via a four-kilometer electrified route from the city center to the so-called state train station .
Early 20th century
For the first time in 1911 during excavation work on the bones of the 200 million year old Plateosaurus; until 1932 most of the surviving skeletons of the species were found here. In 1912 the later NSDAP local group leader Fritz Kiehn founded the "Efka-Werke", which mainly produced cigarette paper and became the second major employer alongside Matth. Hohner AG developed. In 1927, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the harmonica industry, it was granted city rights. At that time Trossingen had almost 6,000 inhabitants, the harmonica industry had reached its heyday and before the Second World War employed around 5,000 workers in Trossingen and in an extensive branch system on the Baar and Heuberg . The harmonica industry dominated the city's economic and social life; For many decades, hardly any drastic decisions could be made in the town hall without Hohner's consent. In the heyday of harmonica production, over 30 million harmonicas and 30,000 accordions were made.
During the district reform during the Nazi era in Württemberg , Trossingen was added to the Tuttlingen district in 1938.
Trossingen also suffered badly from the Second World War . There are more than 400 fallen and missing soldiers. There were also air raids in February and April 1945. The French troops marched in on April 21, 1945.
After the Second World War
In 1945 Trossingen became part of the French occupation zone and was thus assigned to the newly founded state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern in 1947 , which was incorporated into the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1952.
The poor food situation and the severe post-war winters made the Trossingen particularly difficult. Against this background, the admission of around 1,800 displaced persons and refugees from the east of Germany was a particular challenge. In the years that followed, several new development areas were built around the city.
As the predecessor of today's State University for Music Trossingen , the “State University Institute for Music Education at the University of Heidelberg”, which was relocated to Trossingen during the war, was named “State University Institute for Music Education Trossingen”. Further musical institutions were set up in Trossingen in the following years. The “ Federal Academy for Young Musical Education ” was established in the early 1970s as the most important in the amateur music field . Of great importance to the accordion scene is the Hohner Conservatory, which is a state-recognized vocational school and trains accordion teachers. The Federal Association of German Orchestra Associations (BDO) and the German Harmonica Association (DHV) also have their headquarters in Trossingen. Trossingen can rightly adorn itself with the title “world-famous city of music”.
The 1950s were also marked by the so-called economic miracle in Trossingen . Numerous important buildings and facilities were built in these years: the outdoor pool (1952), the district hospital (1953), the Dr.-Karl-Hohner-Bürgerheim (1955), the Johannes-Brenz-Gemeindehaus (1956), the Fritz-Kiehn- Sports hall (1957), the Dr.-Ernst-Hohner-Konzerthaus (1960) and the Löhrschule (1961). The highlight of the 1950s and the Hohner company history was the 1957 anniversary “100 years of Hohner”. In the new school center, the Progymnasium was expanded into a full institution in 1967, and the new Realschule was built in 1974.
The relationship between the city of Trossingen and its former honorary citizen Fritz Kiehn , who "aryanized" companies in the Third Reich and rose to become a key figure in NSDAP propaganda in southern Württemberg, is still controversial . From 1935 to 1945 he was an honorary citizen, then he was denied honorary citizenship. In 1953 he was elected to the local council with a large majority and was then again addressed as an honorary citizen. Today the municipal sports hall built in 1957 with his financial support still bears his name. In 2000 the municipal council finally confirmed the revocation of the honorary citizenship of 1945. In 2010 the Trossingen municipal council took the 75th anniversary of the Catholic Theresienkirche as an opportunity to rename the previous Fritz-Kiehn-Platz (since 1960) to Theresienplatz.
In 1970, when the district reform was being debated in the state, only a very narrow majority of the Trossingers (1540 to 1509 votes) decided in a citizens' hearing to remain in the Tuttlingen district. The alternative would have been to move to the newly created Schwarzwald-Baar district. As part of the community reform, Schura was voluntarily incorporated into Trossingen in 1971.
With the district reform in Baden-Württemberg , the city of Trossingen moved as part of the district of Tuttlingen from the administrative district of Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern to the administrative district of Freiburg .
Latest story
Trossingen's infrastructure suffered some losses in the 1970s. The vocational school and the district hospital, for which the Bethel aftercare hospital is a replacement, closed. Furthermore, the planned construction of a toxic waste dump near Durchhausen, in the immediate vicinity of the Schura district, was stopped in the 1970s. In 1977, the “ Auberlehaus ” local history museum created another highlight. In the city center, the music academy has become a dominant factor in addition to the historic “Hohner Area” thanks to new buildings in four construction phases so far (1978 to 2006). Due to the influx of numerous repatriates, especially from the areas of the former Soviet Union and from Romania, the population rose sharply.
Since the 1970s, the number of employees at Matth. Hohner AG steadily declined (in the crisis year of Matth. Hohner AG 1987/87 it already had less than 1000 employees; cf. the high of 5000 in 1939). After new production buildings had already been built in the industrial area on the outskirts in 1982, Hohner AG finally left the old company premises in the city center in 1995 and moved into another new building in the industrial area. Much of the old factory building was demolished. The high chimney of the Hohner power plant, a symbol of the city, was blown up. The decline of the harmonica industry initiated a structural change in the Trossingen economy, which is characterized by "monoculture".
In 1996 the Protestant parish celebrated the 250th anniversary of its Martin Luther Church and in 1997 the whole city celebrated "1200 years of Trossingen". Between 2005 and 2009, Trossingen's center was given a new face, as the former Hohner site was redesigned and the market square and main street were also renovated. In addition, the city expanded further with new residential areas in the north. In the summer of 2006, Trossingen was in the international news due to a bad hail storm: hailstones around ten centimeters in diameter caused numerous injuries and caused property damage in the hundreds of millions.
Incorporations
The community of Schura was incorporated into Trossingen on December 1, 1971, Talheim on January 1, 1975; the incorporation of Talheim was canceled by the Baden-Württemberg State Court on April 1, 1976.
Population development
| year | Residents | year | Residents |
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| 1816 | 1,665 | 1965 | 10,524 |
| 1880 | 2,649 | 1975 | 12,102 |
| 1890 | 2,951 | 1985 | 11,264 |
| 1900 | 3,681 | 1995 | 14,507 |
| 1910 | 5,146 | 2003 | 15.006 |
| 1927 | 5,794 | 2005 | 15,153 |
| 1935 | 6,285 | 2012 | 15,298 |
| 1945 | 7,483 | 2015 | 16.007 |
| 1955 | 8,930 | 2018 | 16,821 |
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council.
In Trossingen, the municipal council is elected using the false sub-district election. The number of municipal councilors, which is usually 22, can be increased through overhang mandates . The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following preliminary final result.
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Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
% 2009 |
Seats 2009 |
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| FW | Free voters | 24.0 | 6th | 31.6 | 7th | 30.5 | 7th | |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 24.0 | 5 | 31.7 | 7th | 29.1 | 7th | |
| FDP | Free Democratic Party | 19.7 | 5 | 16.1 | 4th | 20.0 | 5 | |
| OGL | Open green list | 14.9 | 3 | 14.5 | 3 | 12.9 | 3 | |
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 6.8 | 2 | 6.1 | 1 | 7.5 | 1 | |
| TNG | Trossingen - new generation | 5.4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| AfD | Alternative for Germany | 5.2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| total | 100.0 | 23 | 100.0 | 22nd | 100.0 | 23 | ||
| voter turnout | 47.1% | 37.8% | 41.6% | |||||
In the 2014 municipal council election, the CDU had 26,823 votes, a narrow lead over the Free Voters with 26,739 votes, both of whom received 7 seats each. In the 2019 election, the Free Voters had exactly 1 vote ahead, namely 25,814, in front of the CDU with 25,813 votes, this was decisive for the Free Voters to achieve one more seat.
mayor
At the head of the city administration and at the same time chairman of the municipal council is the mayor . He is directly elected for a term of eight years. Since July 1, 2007, Clemens Maier (independent), who was elected in the first ballot with 83.2% of the votes cast, has been mayor of the city of music.
Until 1930 the official title of the mayor was mayor mayor .
- 1886–1913: Jakob Koch (mayor)
- 1913–1928: Ernst Haller (from 1927 Stadtschultheiß )
- 1928–1934: Walter Bärlin
- 1934–1945: Emil Kienzle (soldier from 1942, substitute: Christian Messner)
- 1945–1952: Hans Neipp
- 1952–1970: Rudolf Maschke (1904–1979)
- 1970–1994: Heinz Mecherlein (1936–2009)
- 1994-2007: Lothar Wölfle (* 1958, CDU)
- since 2007: Clemens Maier (* 1974, free voter)
coat of arms
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Blazon : "In gold (yellow) a black eagle with a golden (yellow) breast shield, in it three black stag poles one above the other." |
| Justification for the coat of arms: The eagle actually comes from the coat of arms of the hamlet Thalhausen, which originally belonged to the free imperial city of Rottweil, was later taken over by Trossingen, but was then sold. The three deer sticks document that the core town belongs to Württemberg. |
Town twinning
The city officially maintains three city partnerships.
- The longest and most intensive has existed since 1974 with the only slightly larger French town of Cluses in Haute-Savoie . The partnership developed from the student exchange between the Cluser College and the Gymnasium Trossingen, established in 1971 by Jacqueline Raguin and Hans Trümper. For the very intensely cultivated partnership, the city of Trossingen received the honor flag in 1985 and the honor plaque of the Council of Europe in 1994 .
- Since 1993, a partnership with Beaverton in the state of Oregon of the United States . Here, too, a successful student exchange led to the town twinning.
- Since 1997 there has been a town partnership with Windhoek in Namibia . This is due to Georg Quandt, who visited the African country privately for years and decided to offer help there. He was able to establish contacts with the highest authorities in Windhoek and is currently Honorary Consul of the Embassy of the Republic of Namibia in Germany . In Windhoek a street is called "Trossinger Straße".
Sponsorships
In 1974 the city of Trossingen took over the sponsorship of the U22 submarine from the 3rd submarine squadron in Eckernförde / Baltic Sea, which was put into service in the same year . This ended when the U22 was decommissioned in 2009. In 2002 Trossingen took over the sponsorship of the 3rd company of the supply battalion of the Franco-German Brigade.
Consulates
As a twin town of Windhoek (see town twinning ), Trossingen is home to an honorary consulate of the Republic of Namibia . Honorary consul is the former Trossingen bank director Georg Quandt.
Culture and sights
religion
history
Protestantism has a long tradition in the city . As in the entire Duchy of Württemberg, the Reformation was introduced in Trossingen in 1534 . With Johannes Spreter, an important reformer in the 16th century also lived here. Trossingen is purely Protestant until the second half of the 19th century. Due to the immigration of workers for the harmonica industry from the surrounding villages, Catholics are increasingly coming to the place. In 1935 the Catholic Church of St. Theresa is consecrated. Since the 1990s, numerous repatriates from the former Soviet Union and Romania have immigrated to Trossingen and founded larger Protestant free churches .
Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , of the 15,034 inhabitants, 3,937 (26.2%) were Roman Catholic , 5,978 (39.8%) Protestant and 5,119 (34%) were non-denominational or belonged to another religious community. Currently (as of June 2018) of the 15,017 inhabitants, 24% are Roman Catholic, 32% Protestant and 44% are non-denominational or belong to another religious community.
Museums
Three museums from z. Some of the cities are of supraregional importance. The German Harmonica Museum has the most extensive collection of mouth and hand harmonicas as well as industry-historical documents in Germany if not worldwide. In the 25th year of its existence, in May 2016, the museum was able to move to its authentic location in a previously listed production building in the so-called Hohner area and reopen it in a completely new design. Not only the details of interesting instrument history are clearly presented, but also socially and industrial history relevant connections and influences of the harmonica regionally and worldwide represented. The Auberlehaus museum houses a large museum for the region - among other things, it is a branch museum of the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart. The important collections impress with their unusual and often fascinating presentation. The palaeontological and mineralogical collection in particular has a national reputation. In addition, the connection between Trossingen and Namibia and the “Black Continent” is clearly documented in the museum's Africa collection. In the Railway Museum you can find out about the unique history of the Trossingen Railway , including: a. you can see the fleet of vehicles built in 1898, 1902, 1938, 1956 and 1968. The museum train T1 is one of the oldest still operational electric railways in the world.
Finds and excavations
- From 1911 remains of 55 Plateosaurus engelhardti , two turtles Proganochelys quenstedti as well as mussels and ammonites were found in and around Trossingen and established Trossingen's reputation as one of the largest dinosaur sites in Germany. (see also Museum Auberlehaus ). Since September 2007 scientists from the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart have been digging at the site again.
- Traces of a (rare) two-part Celtic Viereckschanze can be seen in Trossingen.
- In addition to the nearby community of Oberflacht , Trossingen is an important site for wet wood finds, because due to the clayey loam soils, Alemannic grave fixtures and accessories are extremely well preserved. In 2002 the only completely preserved and carved lyre from the 6th century was recovered. The original finds are shown in the Archaeological State Museum in Konstanz and partly also in the Museum Auberlehaus .
Buildings
- The tower , a remnant of the medieval St. Anna Church on Ernst-Haller-Straße, is considered a kind of landmark of the city .
- One of the most distinctive buildings is the former "Schulhaus auf der Löhr", built in 1873, which was used by the Hohner company from 1933 as a technical school for aspiring accordion teachers, later called the Hohner Conservatory. The city music school has been located there since 2010.
- The stately town hall was built in 1904 and has an impressive facade with Art Nouveau elements.
- Since 1960 Trossingen has been home to the Dr. Ernst Hohner Concert Hall, known beyond the region for its excellent acoustics, with over 800 seats, which was the third building in Baden-Württemberg after the Stuttgart Liederhalle and the television tower to be listed as a historical monument.
- The "Old Council and School House", basically from the year 1522 and thus the oldest preserved secular building in the city, was saved from demolition in 1989 by a citizens' initiative and renovated in accordance with the preservation of historical monuments.
- The so-called "Hohner-Areal", until 1995 the production center of Matth. Hohner AG in the city center, after the demolition of numerous factory buildings at the end of the 1990s and since the opening of the "Kesselhaus culture factory" in 2002, has gradually developed into a regionally exemplary urban complex of urban character with a mixed use of living, culture, education, gastronomy and business developed. The former machine and boiler house as the nucleus of all maintenance measures was " Monument of the Month April 2004" by the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation . Since then, the other buildings AA, A, B, C, L and V of the “Hohner Areal” that were spared from demolition have been renovated on a private and commercial initiative. Most recently, shortly before it was threatened with demolition, the monumental Building V (previously used in part as an exhibition space for the Kunstverein Trossingen and the German Harmonica Museum) was bought by an external investor and successfully renovated in 2008/2009. Today in building V u. a. the city library, the Hohner Conservatory and the special exhibition area of the German Harmonica Museum. The successfully renovated building V was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Prize in 2010 . Buildings AA, A and C as well as the “Old Council and School House” are two of a total of five projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection in the Tuttlingen district. The IHK Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg sees the “Hohner-Areal” as a starting point for the formation of a “creative industry cluster”.
- The urban “Kesselhaus culture factory” in the “Hohner Areal” is a place for cabaret, cabaret, theater and music as well as a popular location for parties and other events. The boiler house used to be the heating center of the Hohner company, in which electricity was generated from coal. Today it is an industrial monument in which the historical generators and machines can still be seen.
- The oldest church in the city is the Protestant church in Shura. It was built in 1737 and is known for its leaning tower.
- The Martin Luther Church is the oldest church in the Trossingen district. It was built in 1743–1746 on the foundations of earlier churches. The medieval church was called "Marienkirche", from 1927 it was called "Stadtkirche", and in 1933 it was named after the reformer Martin Luther on the occasion of the 450th birthday. In the choir of the church, surprisingly baroque colors and style elements predominate for a Protestant church, which were exposed again during the renovation in 1973/74. Expressionist style elements have dominated the nave since the renovation in 1927. In addition, numerous colored windows from the 20th century give the church its character, created by Rudolf Yelin the Elder and Rudolf Yelin the Younger , donated by the Hohner family of manufacturers. The distinctive onion dome dates from 1756.
Traditions
- Trossinger morning soup
- The Trossinger morning soup is not a hearty meal, but rather a quarter of Württemberg wine, mostly red, and fresh "Häpfekranz" ( yeast wreath ). If it should taste particularly good, it is baked with lots of “zibeebe” ( raisins ).
- Trossinger Heimatlied
- On festive occasions, the Trossinger Heimatlied (Josef Zepf / Fritz Jöde ) is sung, a “local anthem” to the city and the Baar, which was composed in 1957 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Hohner company.
Regular events
- Trossingen Whitsun Market: In 1828 this festival was first approved by a royal decree. It will open on the Friday before Pentecost Sunday with a short ecumenical service in the market and will last until the Tuesday after Whit Monday. Every year, thousands of visitors from near and far flock to the city center to shop, to party or to take advantage of the amusements on offer at the fair.
- Kilbemarkt (Kilbemärt): This grocer's market takes place at the end of September (around the church fair) and was introduced in 1978.
- Every four years the World Harmonica Festival, the World Harmonica Championships, takes place in Trossingen with several thousand visitors from all over the world.
- Trossinger Blues-Factory: annual festival in the “Kulturfabrik Kesselhaus” on the Hohner area with a focus on “Bluesharp”, which also offers workshops on the subject of the blues . Numerous blues greats from home and abroad have been there since the beginning in 2002, including a. Abi Wallenstein , BB & The Blues Shacks , Steve Baker (GB), Toots Thielemans , Joe Filisko (USA), Carlos Del Junco (CAN), Brendan Power (NZ / GB) and Louisiana Red .
- The festival "Accordion limitless" with top-class concerts and workshops is held annually in the week after Easter by the Hohner Conservatory.
- In the 1990s, the Strange Noise Festival took place annually in July / August , an open-air festival that attracted up to 40,000 visitors
leisure
The special leisure activities include a city library with around 27,000 media, a stadium and a municipal cinema. With the Troase, Trossingen has an outdoor pool with an 83 m long water slide that is operated as a natural pool . The largest sports club is TG Trossingen with over 1000 members.
tourism
Trossingen is located on the Deutsche Uhrenstrasse and is the start and end point of the Swabian Albstrasse . The city is affiliated with the "Donaubergland" tourist association. The Auberlehaus Museum is also the information point of the Swabian Alb Geopark .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
Trossingen is connected by state and district roads with federal highways 14 , 27 and 523 , which form a triangle between the cities of Tuttlingen , Rottweil and Villingen-Schwenningen . However, Trossingen's signposting is relatively sparse in the region, especially in the Rottweil and Schwarzwald-Baar districts , both of which border the city. So found z. B. Coming from the direction of Rottweil, the first reference to the city is only about four kilometers before Trossingen.
The Villingen-Schwenningen motorway exit ( BAB 81 ) is located around four kilometers west of Trossingen .
Trossingen can be easily reached by train. In order to get a railway connection, at the end of the 19th century citizens built a four kilometer long railway line from the town center to the Rottweil – Villingen railway line . Opened in 1898, this line was one of the first electric railways in Württemberg. Until 2003 it ran in regular operation as the Trossingen Railway , operated by the city of Trossingen. The route is now part of the Ringzug concept, which connects many places in the region with offers similar to the S-Bahn. The trains go to Trossingen around 40 times a day.
Established businesses
The Trossingen musical instrument company " Hohner " is of particular importance for the history of the city . It was founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner and established the rise of the former farming village of Trossingen to become a city of music. In the course of the last century it took over several other harmonica factories in Trossingen (Christian Messner, Andreas Koch and Christian Weiß) and employed up to 5000 people in its heyday. Hohner has achieved worldwide importance through the manufacture of harmonica and accordions . The crisis and decline of the company began in the 1970s. Today the number of employees is less than 200. The larger employers in the city also include:
- the Imperial Tobacco EFKA GmbH & Co. KG , which specializes in paper processing and the production of cigarette tubes
- TR Electronic (rotary encoder and linear encoder)
- Walter Straßenbau KG (road construction, civil engineering and sewer construction)
- Ritzi GmbH (displays and shop systems)
- Haas grinding machines GmbH
- State University of Music Trossingen
- Held GmbH mechanical engineering
About every fifth job in Trossingen is related to music.
media
The Trossinger Zeitung has been published since 1896 (with an interruption in the Third Reich ), originally as an independent newspaper, and since 1961 as the local edition of the Schwäbische Zeitung under the same title . The local edition of the Schwarzwälder Bote was discontinued in 2004 (in return the Schwäbische Zeitung waived its Rottweiler and Schramberg local editorial offices). In the Schwenninger edition of the Südwest-Presse (Die Neckarquelle) one or two pages appear daily with reports from Trossingen. Since the Neckarquelle also competes directly with the Trossinger Zeitung, the cooperation between the two editorial offices has been reduced.
Trossingen is also in the official area of responsibility of the following regional / local radio stations : Radio Neckarburg , Radio 7 and SWR4 BW Radio Südbaden (with the subregional window "Radio Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg"). But since Trossingen and some other cities are historically part of Württemberg, SWR4 Radio Tübingen also broadcasts (unofficially) for this area. Regional television has also been available since February 2006: Regio TV Bodensee also broadcasts for the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region.
Parks
The Gauger local recreation area is located on the outskirts, between Trossingen and Schura. There is u. a. from a small lake, gastronomy, some walking and hiking trails and a game reserve.
The Troase natural pool is an artificially created, near-natural outdoor pool that does not use chemicals . It was opened on July 23, 2005 and was created not least through the voluntary work of numerous citizens who did not want to accept that Trossingen was without swimming in summer after the planned closure of the old outdoor pool.
education
In Trossingen there are educational institutions from elementary school to university. Numerous musical institutions emerged from the great tradition of the harmonica industry, at their head the State University of Music Trossingen . Together with her, the Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education , the Hohner Conservatory , the Dr. Ernst Hohner Concert Hall and the Trossingen Music School established Trossingen's reputation as a city of music.
There are also three primary schools (Friedensschule, Rosenschule and the Kellenbachschule in the Schura district), a secondary school (Löhrschule) with Werkrealschule, a special school (Solwegschule), a secondary school and a grammar school (with a scientific, linguistic and musical education profile) and a "school of the Lebens “with socio-educational support (privately owned). The once independent adult education center is now a branch of the VHS Tuttlingen.
The general high school is also a music high school as one of three elite high schools in Baden-Württemberg.
The German Harmonica Association, founded in Trossingen in 1931, and the Federal Association of German Orchestra Associations (BDO) are also based in the city.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1924 Kommerzienrat Jakob Hohner, born April 2, 1861, † February 22, 1946, harmonica manufacturer, eldest son of the company's founder Matthias Hohner
- 1928 Ernst Haller, * 1879, † 1961, 1913–1928 Schultheiß (1927 Stadtschultheiß)
- 1946 Ernst Hohner , born June 28, 1886, † October 16, 1965, harmonica manufacturer, city councilor (1st alderman), grandson of the company's founder
- 1952 Karl Hohner, born December 21, 1891, † 1971, harmonica manufacturer, grandson of the company's founder
- 1967 Hans Lenz , born July 12, 1907, † August 28, 1968, City Councilor, 1953–1967 Member of the Bundestag (FDP), 1961–1962 Federal Treasury Minister, 1962–1965 Federal Minister for Scientific Research
- 1968 Matthias Hohner, born August 20, 1898, † December 27, 1978, harmonica manufacturer, grandson of the company's founder
- 1970 Rudolf Maschke, born March 27, 1904, † January 4, 1979, 1952–1970 mayor, "master builder of the city"
- 1987 Fritz Trümper, born January 5, 1902, † 1989, rector, city councilor, head of the adult education center for decades
- 1987 Engelhard Walter, born April 22, 1914, † 1990, building contractor, city councilor (deputy mayor)
- 1987 Georg Schmid, born June 26, 1914, works council chairman, city councilor
- 2012 Ernst Pfister , born April 28, 1947, City Councilor, Deputy Mayor, 2004–2011 Minister of Economics for Baden-Württemberg
- 2013 Ernst Burgbacher , born May 28, 1949, member of the Bundestag and former parliamentary state secretary. D.
- 2017 posthumously: Hans Trümper, born November 15, 1937, † August 27, 2017, director of studies, long-time city councilor and deputy mayor, father of the town twinning with Cluses.
Honorary citizenship later revoked
- 1935 Fritz Kiehn , born October 15, 1885, † September 1, 1980, manufacturer (Efka-Werke), city councilor, 1932–1945 member of the Reichstag, holder of numerous offices and functions in the Third Reich (revoked honorary citizenship in 1945, revoked in 1955, revoked in 2000 Confirmed in 1945.)
sons and daughters of the town
The following famous personalities were born or raised in Trossingen.
- Christian Messner , born November 1, 1805, † December 13, 1874, harmonica manufacturer, founder of the Trossingen harmonica industry (1830)
- Matthias Hohner , born December 12, 1833, † December 11, 1902, harmonica manufacturer, founder of the company of the same name (1857), which developed into the largest harmonica manufacturer in the world
- Egon Strohm , born October 24, 1904; † May 2, 1983, journalist, writer and translator
- Eberhard Rees , born April 28, 1908, † April 2, 1998 (DeLand, Florida / USA). Rocket specialist and from 1970 to 1973 director of the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville (Alabama / USA)
- Hans Lenz * July 12, 1907, † August 28, 1968, City Councilor, 1953–1967 Member of the Bundestag (FDP), 1961–1962 Federal Treasury Minister, 1962–1965 Federal Minister for Scientific Research
- Karl Demetz , * 1909, † 1986, animal and landscape painter
- Herbert Walz , born November 7, 1915, † January 23, 2002, writer and local poet
- Helmuth Herold , born August 1, 1928, † May 3, 2001, musician
- Emil Kiess , * 1930, visual artist
- Gerhard Neipp , * August 16, 1939, † July 16, 2019, Manager (Hoesch AG, RAG Aktiengesellschaft)
- Peter Dombrowsky , born August 9, 1945 politician ( CDU ), 1974-2000 Mayor of Alpirsbach , 2000-2010 District Administrator of the district Freudenstadt
- Ernst Pfister , born April 28, 1947, politician, Member of the Bundestag ( FDP ) since 1980 , Minister of Economic Affairs 2004–2011 and Deputy Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg from 2004–2006
- Ernst Burgbacher , born May 28, 1949, politician ( FDP ), Member of the Bundestag 1998–2013, 2002–2013 Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP parliamentary group and 2009–2013 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
- Regine Hengge , born November 2, 1956, microbiologist, since 1998 professor at the Free University of Berlin , Leibniz Prize 1998
- Gaby Hauptmann , born May 15, 1957, freelance journalist, filmmaker and author
- Roland Eberlein , born October 19, 1959, musicologist, chairman of the Walcker Foundation for research into organ studies, private lecturer at the University of Cologne, owner of the publisher
- Ferdinand von Schirach , * 1964, writer
- Volker Neipp , born May 17, 1969, initiator of the reopening of the Trossingen dinosaur site in 2007, author of local history topics and honorary director of the Museum Auberlehaus
- Elisabeth Büchle , born June 26, 1969, author
- Thorsten Quandt , * 1971, communication scientist
Personalities who work or have worked on site
Well-known personalities who lived in Trossingen during a relevant creative period are listed here, unless they can be found in the previous sections.
- Johannes Spreter (before 1490–1549), reformer from Trossingen
- Elly Beinhorn (born May 30, 1907, † November 28, 2007), pilot and author, broke several world records, wife of racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer , lived in Trossingen for around 10 years after the war
- Ernst Zacharias (born June 21, 1924, † July 6, 2020), engineer, invented numerous musical instruments in Trossingen that were manufactured by the Hohner company
- Gerd Witte (born June 14, 1927, † December 7, 2015), cantor of the Martin Luther Church in Trossingen, professor of organ and Protestant church music at the Trossingen University of Music, composer
- Frank Golischewski (* 1960), small artist , composer of several musicals with premieres in Trossingen
literature
- Martin Häffner: Trossingen - from Alemannendorf to music city. Stadtbuch-Verlag Lienhard & Junge, Trossingen 1997.
- Hartmut Berghoff: Between small town and world market: Hohner and the harmonica 1857–1961. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-70785-X .
- Volker Neipp : Wa die aalde Trossinger gschwädzd and bruddled haud - Trossinger vocabulary. Trossingen 1991, self-published Arbeits- und Förderkreis Trossinger Heimatmuseum e. V.
- Volker Neipp: Trossingen - faces of our city. Sutton Verlag GmbH, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-89702-154-4 .
- Volker Neipp: Photo album of the music city Trossingen. Sutton Verlag GmbH, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-058-4 .
- Volker Neipp: With screws and bolts to the moon - The incredible life's work of Dr. Eberhard FM Rees. Springer Druckerei und Verlag, Trossingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9802675-7-1 .
- Ruth Koch: memories of grandmother Koch. Springer Druckerei und Verlag, Trossingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-9802675-6-4 (memories of the Andreas Koch harmonica dynasty).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
- ↑ See http://www.luftlinie.org/Trossingen/Klippeneck
- ↑ See http://www.luftlinie.org/Schura/Ludwigshafen-am-Bodensee
- ↑ Main statute of the city of Trossingen in the version of March 7, 2005 ( Memento of the original of January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 51 kB)
- ^ The state of Baden-Württemberg. Official description by district and municipality. Volume VI: Freiburg region Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-17-007174-2 . Pp. 664-666
- ↑ Alamanni in view. Exhibition in the museum . In: Südkurier of July 14, 2008
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 518 and 535 .
- ↑ Preliminary final result of the Trossingen municipal council election 2019
- ↑ City of Trossingen Religion -in%, 2011 census
- ↑ City of Trossingen in figures, data, facts , accessed on February 18, 2020.
- ↑ https://www.nq-online.de/index.php?&kat=51&artikel=13986
- ↑ Ernst Pfister now honorary citizen of the city of Trossingen , Die Neckarquelle May 4, 2012
- ↑ Silvia Müller: Trossingen was his life. Schwäbische Zeitung, November 26, 2017 ( online ).
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