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| Hornberg | |
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| City | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Hornberg within Ortenaukreis district
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  Hornberg Show map of Germany Hornberg Show map of Baden-Württemberg | |
| Coordinates: 48°12′48″N 08°13′51″E / 48.21333°N 8.23083°E / 48.21333; 8.23083 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Baden-Württemberg |
| Admin. region | Freiburg |
| District | Ortenaukreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2023–31) | Marc Thomas Winzer |
| Area | |
| • Total | 54.45 km (21.02 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 384 m (1,260 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 4,271 |
| • Density | 78/km (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 |
Hornberg is a city 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.
Local activities
Hornberg is the location of the Duravit Design Center. 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.
Black Forest Railway (German: Schwarzwaldbahn)
Hornberg has a railway station on the Black Forest Railway. 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 [de] (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 (1942–2023), 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 2022" [Population by nationality and sex as of December 31, 2022] (CSV) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg. June 2023.
- 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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