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What's Trossingen like?
What's Trossingen like?
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greeno
28 posts
Aug 10, 2012
4:32 PM
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Me and the family are planning a break in Germany soon. We are staying in a place called Baden Baden, which I believe is not too far from Trossingen, and I am hoping to persuade the clan to a day trip to the Harmonica Museum if I can work out the transport links. (We won't be driving)
Has anyone been there, and is it worth a trip?
Also, are there any other non-harmonica based attractions there that I can tempt the rest of the family with?
Greeno
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
1274 posts
Aug 10, 2012
4:51 PM
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I've never been to Trossingen, but the German harmonica museum is there.
But I have been to Baden-Baden. I went to school in Austria and shimmed over there and checked the place out.There's Roman baths there, but I didn't see those. I would have if I knew about it. I literally just stepped off a train and spent a day walking around there. That's what I did the whole fall/early winter of 1997, I had a Eurail pass, I rode around, slept on trains, got off when I felt like it and walked around.
I got off at Baden-Baden because my mother's family emigrated to the U.S. from there in 1733.
There was this cool little church there, beautiful stone building. It's not one of the tourist churches - and I can't find it on the Internet, it was very very small and very old. I got off the train at like 4 a.m. and started walking around until the sun rose and the buses started running. When the buses started running I got on one. Interestingly enough, schoolkids rode it to school - they were all wearing baseball caps, the only ones I saw in Europe that wasn't on the head of an American tourist.
Anyway, I was riding around in the bus and I did pass some of the more well-known buildings, but there was something about that little church that got me. There was a mosaic of a saint or something on the front and it had a quotation from Revelations 22:13 in the stone "ich bin der A und O, der Anfang und das Ende."
I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I tried to get inside, but it was very early and it was locked.
I'd love to know a little more about that church. It really spoke to me for some reason. I have a pic of it someplace.
The reason I didn't go to Trossingen was the train didn't go there. Only had enough money to purchase all the beer I could drink.
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Last Edited by on Aug 10, 2012 4:55 PM
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greeno
29 posts
Aug 11, 2012
1:21 AM
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--------Elk If I find the church I'll try and find some info . Will let you know in a few weeks.
Enjoy your reirement--
Greeno
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andysheep8
20 posts
Aug 11, 2012
2:40 AM
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The museum has more harmonicas (and squeeze boxes which are also called harmonicas),than you ever want to see in your life, not particularly blues-centered. Staff are very helpful but it is useful if you have a german speaker.Couldn't buy a Marine Band deluxe there but got one in a nearby piano shop where i jammed with the owner and some random bloke on a Steinway, brilliant day!
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A440
24 posts
Aug 11, 2012
6:24 AM
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The area between Baden-Baden and Trossingen is beautiful. It is the heart of the Black Forest and the hilly doorstep of the alps. A great place to hike or bicycle. The area is also known for its great restaurants. Reasonable prices, but very well respected cuisine.
The train network is pretty good, so you can get from town to town easily, but have something to read (or a harp in your pocket) in case you get stuck with a long wait at a train station in one of the smaller villages.
I'm not sure there is too much going on in Trossingen, beyond the Hohner museum and factory tour. It was also a significant dinosaur discovery site, so there may be a museum related to that.
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joypog
18 posts
Aug 11, 2012
7:05 PM
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Funny thing, I visited Trossigen when a friend of mine was going to music school out there for the piano. She told me some random instrument maker was based there and it became the home base for a school out there.
Now that I know about Hohner, I'd be megageeked to go out there and check out the museum. But I didn't then. And so my experience was that it was a non-descript town. Its not a run down dystopic industrial wasteland, nor a big city with skyscrapers and a big Central Business District, just kind of a nice spread out suburban neighborhood. Looks like a decent place to live if you don't want the hustle and bustle of a metropolis. Nothing pretty, but not ugly, just there....and aside from just chillin at her flat the only touristy thing I remember doing at Trossigen was actually going to some other town a couple hours away by train that had did have a nicely preserved historical town center!
Maybe there is more to do out there, but I suspect that Trossigen is a company town, its about as exciting as visiting some place like Bentonville (the walmart HQ). I'd presume there are a couple company related attractions but not really much else....
It was definitely a weird moment the day I bought my Hohner Marine Band and the box said made in Trossigen!
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The Iceman
397 posts
Aug 12, 2012
8:50 AM
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Trossingen is a fun town during the Hohner World Competitions...otherwise, it is a quiet small town with a lot of charm.
I remember taking the train to a station close to Trossingen and then having to ride a trolley car to actually get to town.
I second the ungodly beautiful area down south - Black Forest - home of Brother's Grimm fairy tales, etc.
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The Iceman
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