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Bad Säckingen
Town
Bad Säckingen; panorama from Swiss border
Coat of arms
Location of Bad Säckingen within Waldshut district
Bad Säckingen Show map of Germany Bad Säckingen Show map of Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 47°33′N 7°57′E / 47.550°N 7.950°E / 47.550; 7.950
Country	Germany
State	Baden-Württemberg
Admin. region	Freiburg
District	Waldshut
Government
•  Mayor (2019–27)	Alexander Guhl [1] ( SPD)
Area
• Total	25.34 km2 (9.78 sq mi)
Elevation	291 m (955 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31) [2]
• Total	17,660
• Density	700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
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 "Trumpeter'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. ^[3]

After the Second World War the city was under control of France from 1945-1952. The city was financially helped by the Swiss Fricktal to get over the financial struggles after the war. ^[4]

Transport

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• 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

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bad Säckingen.

Media related to Bad Säckingen at Wikimedia Commons

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