Trossingen
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Administrative region | Freiburg |
| District | Tuttlingen |
| Population | 15,072 (2005) |
| Area | 24.2 km² |
| Population density | 622 /km² |
| Elevation | 699 m |
| Coordinates | 48°4′ N 08°38′ E |
| Postal code | 78635-78647 |
| Area code | 07425 |
| Licence plate code | TUT |
| Mayor | Lothar Wölfle (CDU) |
| Website | trossingen.de |
Trossingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest. Stuttgart is about an hour away, Lake Constance about half an hour, and the source of the river Danube can be reached in about twenty minutes by car.
Trossingen is renowned as a "music town". Although only around 15,000 people live here, the town is home to the renowned 'University of Music Trossingen' [1] (with its famous Early Music department), which is one of Baden-Württemberg's five conservatoires, and there are several other institutions specializing in musical education, like the 'Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung' [2] and the 'Hohner Konservatorium' [3].
In 1830 Christan Messner from Trossingen a cloth maker and weaver copied a Harmonica bought to Trosisngen by his next door neighbor and clockmaker, from Vienna, the beginning of musical instrument production in the town. He had such success with making such instruments, that eventually his brother and some relatives also stared to build harmonicas. From 1840 on his nephew Christian Weiss started to work on his on. So by 1855 two registered Businesses war in existence. Christian Messner & Co. and Württ. Harmonikafabrik Ch. WEISS.
See German wikipedia page about Christian Messner [4].
In 1857 the Matthias Hohner company was founded. Hohner harmonicas are well known all over the world, and Trossingen houses the German Harmonica Museum.
Visitors to the museum of local history and culture can see a reproduction of the skeleton of the dinosaur Plateosaurus trossingensis, found near Trossingen. Trossingen also has an historic railway: the Trossinger Eisenbahn.
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