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{{Infobox Town DE|
name = Trossingen|
name_local = |
image_coa = Wappen Trossingen.png|
image_map = |
state = [[Baden-Württemberg]] |
regbzk = [[Freiburg (region)|Freiburg]]|
district = [[Tuttlingen (district)|Tuttlingen]]|
population = 15,072|
population_as_of = 2005|
population_ref = |
pop_dens = 622|
area = 24.2|
elevation = 699|
lat_deg = 48|
lat_min = 4|
lat_hem = N|
lon_deg = 08|
lon_min = 38|
lon_hem = E|
postal_code = 78635-78647|
area_code = 07425|
licence = TUT|
mayor = Lothar Wölfle ([[CDU]])|
website =[http://www.trossingen.de 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' [http://www.mh-trossingen.de] (with its famous Early Music department), which is one of Baden-Württemberg's five [[conservatoire]]s, and there are several other institutions specializing in musical education, like the 'Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung' [http://www.bundesakademie-trossingen.de] and the 'Hohner Konservatorium' [http://www.hohner-konservatorium.de].
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]] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Messner].
In [[1857]] the [[Hohner|Matthias Hohner]] company was founded. Hohner [[harmonica]]s 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''.
==Twin towns==
*[[Cluses]], in France
*[[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]], in Oregon, USA
*[[Windhoek]], the capital of Namibia
==External links==
*[http://www.harmonika-museum.de German Harmonica Museum]
*[http://www.mh-trossingen.de Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen/University of Music Trossingen]
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