Bad Säckingen (German pronunciation: [baːt ˈzɛkɪŋən] ; 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 "Trumpeter'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 on the High Rhine next to the Swiss border. The city lies on the southern edge of the Hotzenwald, which is the southern foothills of the
Black Forest 
.
Constitutuent communities
The town of Bad Säckingen consists of the following former municipalities:
- Harpolingen with the farms Lochmühle and Rüttehof and the houses Holdmatt
- Rippolingen with the Flut farmstead and the Santihof houses
- Säckingen with the district of Obersäckingen and the houses Am Bergsee
- Wallbach
Nearby places
- Close (
- Further away (>15 km): Waldshut-Tiengen, Schopfheim , Lörrach , Basel , Brugg AG, Aarau AG, Zürich, Schaffhausen SH, St. Blasien, Todtmoos, Freiburg i.Br., Konstanz .
Origin of the name
Säckingen (since 1978 Bad Säckingen, first mentioned in a document in 878 as Seckinga) is traditionally considered to be the foundation of an Alemanni group called Secco.
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