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.[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 (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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