Hornberg is a city in the Ortenaukreis, in western

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. It is situated in the

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, 35 km southeast of

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, and 25 km northwest of Villingen-Schwenningen. Hornberg Burg

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.Schwarzwaldbahn on the website of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (in German)
/ref> 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

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), 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

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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 *

(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

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