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Hornberg
City
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
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※

External links※

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

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