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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Freiburg

Elevation
  
953 m (3,127 ft)

Area
  
54.45 km²

Local time
  
Tuesday 8:37 PM

State
  
Baden-Württemberg

District
  
Ortenaukreis

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Population
  
4,354 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
78132

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Weather
  
8°C, Wind W at 8 km/h, 69% Humidity

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.

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Map of Hornberg, Germany

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Andreas Beck (born 1948), physicians (head of the radiology department of the hospital Konstanz), theologian and writer
  • Bärbel Hähnle (born 1949), athlete, 1969 European runner-up with the 4 × 100-meter relay
  • Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957), writer, art critic and cultural historian, journalist and diplomat
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Hosch (1750–1811), pietistic theologian and hymn writer
  • Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946), SS-Obergruppenführer, German war criminal
  • Werner Reutter (1937–2016), director of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Charité, Berlin-Dahlem
  • Thomas Schäuble (1948–2013), German politician (CDU), Director of the Baden State Brewery Rothaus, brother of Wolfgang Schäuble

    • Personalities who were active in Hornberg

  • John Beck (born 1938), director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Bonn
  • Misch (1917–2013), bodyguard and telephone Adolf Hitler; had a business for painters in Hornberg before the war
  • Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942), German politician (CDU), grew up in Hornberg
  • Reinold of Urslingen (around 1364-1442), Knight, 1437 share ownership of the castle and city Hornberg

    • References

    Hornberg Wikipedia
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