Trossingen Railway

Trossingen (Swabian: Drossinge) 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 it has only nearly 17,000 inhabitants as of December 31, 2018, 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 state conservatories, and there are several other institutions specializing in musical education, like the 'Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung' [2] and the 'Hohner Konservatorium' [3]. In 1830 Christian Messner from Trossingen, a cloth maker and weaver, copied a harmonica brought to Trossingen by his next door neighbor, a clockmaker from Vienna. This was the beginning of musical instrument production in the town. Messner was so successful at making such instruments that eventually his brother and some relatives also started making harmonicas. From 1840 on his nephew Christian Weiss started working on his own, so by 1855 there were two registered businesses - Christian Messner & Co. and Württ. Harmonikafabrik Ch. Weiss. Trossingen is not the home of the world's oldest existent harmonica manufacturer, C.A. Seydel Sohne, founded in 1847, which is based in the town of Klingenthal/Sachsen. In 1857 the Matthias Hohner company was founded. Today, Hohner harmonicas and accordions are well known all over the world. Trossingen also houses the German Harmonica Museum. Trossingen has a historic railway: the Trossinger Eisenbahn. At the edge of town, in a former clay quarry, were found several dozen skeletons, both complete and partial, of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus engelhardti during excavations in the early 20th century. The local museum Auberlehaus houses several original bones.

Durchhausen is a town in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The design and development center of Allegion Security Technologies with its brand Interflex is in Durchhausen.

The Internationales Luftfahrt-Museum (Manfred Pflumm) is an aviation museum located in the German town of Villingen-Schwenningen in Baden-Württemberg. Many aerospace exhibits are on display including fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters and aircraft engines. The main display is contained within one hangar with other aircraft displayed externally on a site covering 13,000 square metres. In addition to the aircraft exhibits a number of aircraft components and a collection of ejection seats are also held by the museum.

Lupfen is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the highest point in the Baar, having its elevation at 977 metres (3,205 ft). The mountain is called "King of the Baar" as it is an outlier. Hohenlupfen Castle was located on this mountain, which is where the Counts of Lupfen had resided for 500 years.

The Eschach (upstream from Horgen also: Württembergische Eschach) is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It flows into the Neckar south of Rottweil.

Starzel is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Prim in Neufra, a district of Rottweil.

Talheim is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Gunningen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Türnleberg is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Aldingen is a municipality in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Rottenmünster Abbey, also the Imperial Nunnery of Rottenmünster (German: Kloster Rottenmünster), was a Cistercian abbey located near Rottweil in Baden-Württemberg. The self-ruling Imperial Abbey was secularized in the course of the German mediatization of 1802–1803 and its territory annexed to the Duchy of Württemberg. The monastery was closed in 1850. The buildings of the former abbey now house a hospital.

Deutenberg is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.