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 "Trumpeteer'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. Transport 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 Bad Säckingen:History and images Spa towns in Germany Waldshut (district) Germany–Switzerland border crossings Baden