Bad Säckingen

Bad Säckingen
Bad Säckingen
	Bad Säckingen; panorama from Swiss border
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bad Säckingen within Waldshut district
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	Coordinates: 47°33′N 7°57′E
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Waldshut
Government
• Mayor	Alexander Guhl (SPD)
Area
• Total	25.34 km2 (9.78 sq mi)
Elevation	291 m (955 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	17,144
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	79701–79713
Dialling codes	07761
Vehicle registration	WT
Website	http://www.bad-saeckingen.de/

Bad Säckingen (High Alemannic: Bad Säckinge) 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 Der Trompeter von Säckingen ("The Trumpeter of Säckingen"), a famous 19th-century novel by German author Joseph Victor von Scheffel.

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.

In the closing stages of the 1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War, the town was severely damaged by French soldiers commanded by the Comte de Choiseul, following their victory over an Imperial force at Rheinfelden on 7 July 1678.[2]

Transport

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

Karl Agricola before 1834

Axel Neumann (born 1966), actor
Baki Davrak (born 1971), actor
Stefanie Böhler (born 1981), cross-country skier

Twin towns

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References

"Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2018". Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). July 2019.
De Périni, Hardÿ (1896). Batailles françaises, Volume V. Ernest Flammarion, Paris. p. 222.

External links

Media related to Bad Säckingen at Wikimedia Commons

Official website
(in German) Bad Säckingen:History and images

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[1] "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2018". Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg (in German). July 2019.

[2] De Périni, Hardÿ (1896). Batailles françaises, Volume V. Ernest Flammarion, Paris. p. 222.