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Hornberg

For other uses, see Hornberg (disambiguation).
Hornberg
City
Coat of arms of Hornberg
Coat of arms
Location of Hornberg within Ortenaukreis district
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Hornberg is located in Germany
Hornberg
Hornberg
Hornberg is located in Baden-Württemberg
Hornberg
Hornberg
Coordinates: 48°12′48″N 08°13′51″E / 48.21333°N 8.23083°E / 48.21333; 8.23083
CountryGermany
StateBaden-Württemberg
Admin. regionFreiburg
DistrictOrtenaukreis
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
 • Density78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
78132
Dialling codes07833
Vehicle registrationOG, BH, KEL, LR, WOL
Websitewww.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.

Castle of Hornberg
Hornberg
Duravit

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

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

  1. ^ Bürgermeisterwahl Hornberg 2022, Staatsanzeiger.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ The Duravit Design Center website
  4. ^ The welcome page on the brewery website (partly in German)
  5. ^ Schwarzwaldbahn on the website of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (in German)


Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornberg