Well, it could be my coworkers here in Göttingen, but given that this lovely little town is about quite the middle of the country, I'm going with your post-edit

Well, it could be my coworkers here in Göttingen, but given that this lovely little town is about quite the middle of the country, I'm going with your post-edited hypothesis. Thanks for the hint, though, I was scratching my head about some of the other points I could not attribute to any city known to me.