Is peace possible in the house despite an unprotected railway crossing (honking)?

This belongs in the house sale sales talk between insulation values of the walls, burglary classes and COP of the heat pump, and the difference between normal, green and blue drywall panels, panel thicknesses and single and double boarding

Then I hope for good advice.... better to deal with it yourself....

Then take the surcharge package flight path for your house

What I have taken from here and other threads would be the measures bedroom on the side of the house away from it, sand-lime brick walls, mineral wool ETICS, central controlled residential ventilation, special roller shutter boxes and soundproof windows class 3 or 4. Do roller shutters instead of Venetian blinds help regarding soundproofing?

My wife was repeatedly disturbed by it

How was your soundproofing in the previous house? What is your assessment, could the honking noise have been reduced with further soundproofing measures on the house so that it no longer disturbed your wife?

would it have been possible to reduce the honking noise with additional soundproofing measures on the house so that it would no longer have disturbed your wife?

Very unlikely. When the children were small, she reacted to every noise. As the children grew older, she kept it up.

So I have no idea about the sound insulation. But I once lived for a year in an apartment from the 60s. With a direct view of the tracks. I am really bad at estimating but definitely less than 50 m away. An hourly regional train and much less often a freight train. They also honked. I am actually quite sensitive but after a short time I no longer heard the trains. I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's more annoying when the neighbor takes out the lawn mower or the shredder at 8 in the morning.

So I have no idea about soundproofing. But I once lived for a year in an apartment from the 60s. With a direct view of the tracks. I can estimate very poorly but definitely less than 50 m away. An hourly regional train and much rarer a freight train. They also honked. I am actually relatively sensitive but after a short time I didn’t hear the trains anymore. I wouldn’t worry too much about that. It’s more annoying when the neighbor takes out the lawnmower or the shredder at 8 in the morning.

Yes, but please don’t forget that old houses can be really great in terms of soundproofing! They used a lot of mass... Thermal insulation often a catastrophe but acoustically not that bad at all

It is more annoying when the neighbor takes out the lawn mower or the shredder at 8 in the morning.

Neighbor who turns his system up full blast with bad Schlager music at 2:00 a.m.

Loud chatting under the window or in the neighbor’s garden in the middle of the night.

Whether honking or not, it actually seems to be a very good idea in general to dig deep into the soundproofing trick box :) already wrote that.

How do you see the roof shape? Does one have advantages over another regarding soundproofing? I can imagine that a flat roof is advantageous because it does not present a thin, low-mass sloped surface to the sound waves traveling over the land. Green roofing probably helps too.