Hornberg
Hornberg is a town in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, 35 km southeast of Offenburg, and 25 km northwest of Villingen-Schwenningen.
Castle of Hornberg
Hornberg
Hornberg | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Hornberg within Ortenaukreis district  | |
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| Coordinates: 48°12′48″N 08°13′51″E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Ortenaukreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023–31) | Marc Thomas Winzer[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 54.45 km2 (21.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 384 m (1,260 ft) |
| Population (2021-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 4,242 |
| • Density | 78/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 78132 |
| Dialling codes | 07833 |
| Vehicle registration | OG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL |
| Website | www.hornberg.de |
Local activities
Hornberg is the location of the Duravit Design Center.[3] The center has a viewing platform designed by Philippe Starck. This viewing platform is arguably the largest toilet bowl in the world. Duravit also has a production facility in Hornberg.
The family brewery M. Ketterer GmbH & Co.KG is also located in Hornberg.[4]
Black Forest Railway (German: Schwarzwaldbahn)
Hornberg has a railway station on the Black Forest Railway.[5] The route the railway takes to Sankt Georgen im Schwarzwald is considered one of the most spectacular parts of the route.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Andreas Beck (born 1948), physician (head of the radiology department of the hospital Konstanz), theologian and writer
- Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957), writer, art critic and cultural historian, journalist and diplomat
- Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946), Nazi SS officer and Police Leader executed for war crimes
- Thomas Schäuble (1948–2013), German politician (CDU), Director of the Baden State Brewery Rothaus, brother of Wolfgang Schäuble
Personalities who were active in Hornberg
- Rochus Misch (1917–2013), bodyguard and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler; had a business for painters in Hornberg before the war
- Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942), German politician (CDU), grew up in Hornberg
- Reinold of Urslingen (around 1364-1442), Knight, 1437 share ownership of the castle and city Hornberg
References
- Bürgermeisterwahl Hornberg 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
- "Bevölkerung nach Nationalität und Geschlecht am 31. Dezember 2021" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2021] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2022.
- The Duravit Design Center website
- The welcome page on the brewery website (partly in German)
- Schwarzwaldbahn on the website of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (in German)
External links
- (in German) Information about and images
- Hornberg on the Schwarzwald Portal (Black Forest Portal), a tourist website
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