Hornberg_(Schwarzwald)

Hornberg

Hornberg

Town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany


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
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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

  1. "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.

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