Hornberg

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Hornberg
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Hornberg within Ortenaukreis district
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[1]
Area
• Total	54.45 km2 (21.02 sq mi)
Elevation	384 m (1,260 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	4,271
• 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

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.

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 [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 (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

External links

• (in German) Information about and images
• Hornberg on the Schwarzwald Portal (Black Forest Portal), a tourist website

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