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.The Duravit Design Center website 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.The welcome page on the brewery website (partly in German)
Black Forest Railway (German: Schwarzwaldbahn) Hornberg has a railway station on the Black Forest Railway.Schwarzwaldbahn on the website of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (in German) 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 (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 Information about and images Hornberg on the Schwarzwald Portal (Black Forest Portal), a tourist website