Hornberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Hornberg (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Baden-Württemberg
Administrative region :	Freiburg
County :	Ortenau district
Height :	384 m above sea level NHN
Area :	54.45 km 2
Residents:	4318 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	79 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	78132
Area code :	07833
License plate :	OG, BH , KEL, LR, WOL
Community key :	08 3 17 051
City administration address :	Bahnhofstrasse 1–3 78132 Hornberg
Website :	www.hornberg.de
Mayor :	Siegfried Scheffold (independent)
Location of the town of Hornberg in the Ortenau district

Hornberg is a town in the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg .

geography

Geographical location

Hornberg is located at the confluence of the Reichenbachtal in the Gutach Valley in the central Black Forest at an altitude of 344 to 970 meters (boundary to Gutach in the valley floor - Karlstein), in the southeastern tip of the Ortenaukreis.

View of Hornberg from the castle ; centrally the railway viaduct

Neighboring communities

The city borders Gutach in the north- west , Wolfach in the north, Lauterbach and Schramberg in the east , both in the Rottweil district , Triberg in the south and Schonach in the south-west , both in the Schwarzwald-Baar district and in the west the city of Elzach in the district of Emmendingen .

City structure

The town of Hornberg with the formerly independent communities Niederwasser and Reichenbach includes the core town of Hornberg and 133 other districts (villages, hamlets, Zinken, farms and houses).

See also : List of places in the Ortenau district

history

Alliance coat of arms on the occasion of a marriage between a Baron von Hornberg and a Baroness von Zimmer

Until the 19th century

As early as Roman times, an important long-distance connection ran through the area of ​​the city from Strasbourg to Constance , which was continued under Frankish rule. The lordship of Hornberg was given to Adalbert von Ellerbach by Heinrich IV around the year 1084, who from then on called himself von Hornberg .

Around 1200 there was a division among the heirs, the southern part became the dominion of Triberg. The castle , below which the future town of Hornberg developed, was built at this time.

The town was sold to the Württemberg people , for whom this area was an important base on the way to their Alsatian possessions and the county of Mömpelgard . Sales began in 1423 and were completed about two decades later. In the middle of the 15th century, the city became the seat of an upper bailiff's office.

In the frontier agreement between the Kingdom of Würtemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden , which was signed in Paris on October 2, 1810, several "staffs" of the Hornberg District Office, such as Hornberg, the city of Schiltach and the communities of Gutach and Kirnbach , came to the Grand Duchy of Baden . Hornberg remained the seat of a district office afterwards .

See also : Tiefenbach Castle

Incorporations

The municipality of Niederwasser was incorporated on December 1, 1971 and the municipality of Reichenbach on April 1, 1974.

Religions

The Reformation was introduced in Hornberg in 1535. Today there is a Protestant , a Roman Catholic and a New Apostolic Church in the city.

politics

Hornberg Town Hall, 2015

City fountains in Hornberg, Landsknecht and Narr point to the famous Hornberg shooting .

mayor

Siegfried Scheffold (born 1957, independent) has been the mayor of Hornberg since January 14, 2001. He won the re-elections of 2008 with 78% and 2016 with 84% and is now in his third term.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of the elected voluntary councilors and the mayor as chairman. The mayor is entitled to vote in the municipal council. The local council in Hornberg has 14 members. The local elections on May 26, 2019 led to the following final result with a voter turnout of 56.4% (2014: 53.6%):

Political party	Election result	Seats	comparison
CDU	39.6%	6 seats	2014: 37.2%, 5 seats
SPD	30.8%	4 seats	2014: 36.2%, 5 seats
Free voters Hornberg	29.7%	4 seats	2014: 26.6%, 4 seats

Reichenbach and Niederwasser have their own local councils.

coat of arms

It shows talking two black averted hunting horns ( Hifthörner ), which over a green triple mount float on a silver plate.

Partnerships

Hornberg maintains a town partnership with the following city :

• Bischwiller , Alsace , France, since September 13, 1997

Economy and Infrastructure

Gasthaus Schwanen on the Fohrenbühl

• Industry: sanitary ware, electrical engineering, wood processing.
• Agriculture: The farms concentrate on animal husbandry and forestry in the districts of Reichenbach and Niederwasser, 34 of the 85 (2003) farms are full-time farms.
• Tourism: Tourism is an important branch of business for Hornberg, with a total of 52,685 overnight stays in 2005.

Resident companies

The private brewery M. Ketterer GmbH & Co. and the sanitary ware manufacturer Duravit AG are located in Hornberg . In the center of the village is the Hotel & Restaurant Adler, and the Hotel Schloss Hornberg high above the city. On the other side of the city is the private acute clinic Oberbergklinik Schwarzwald, founded by neurologist Matthias Gottschaldt for psychiatry , psychosomatics and psychotherapy , which specializes in the treatment of depression, addiction disorders, burn-out and anxiety and panic disorders.

traffic

Railway viaduct , west side

Hornberg is connected to the national road network by the federal highway 33 ( Willstätt - Ravensburg ). Since July 3, 2006, the Hornberg city center has been relieved by a bypass tunnel, the 1885 meter long Hornberg Tunnel.

The city ​​is connected to the rail network via the Baden Black Forest Railway from Karlsruhe via Offenburg to Singen and Konstanz . The tunnel-rich mountain route begins here in a southerly direction .

Educational institutions

With the Wilhelm Hausenstein School, Hornberg has a primary school . There is also a Protestant and a Roman Catholic kindergarten .

Culture and sights

Engraving by Matthäus Merian : Hornberg around 1643

The Rottweil – Lahr cross-way leads through Hornberg ; the Westweg and Mittelweg , three long-distance hiking trails that lead past many sights, run a few kilometers away . The place is also on the German Clock Route .

Buildings and places

• Hornberg Castle
• St. John the Baptist Church, Evangelical City Church. The Württemberg builder Heinrich Schickhardt built a new, wide nave on the existing Gothic choir from 1600–03 and built a three-sided gallery facing the pulpit north of the choir arch. The church thus represents one of the early examples of new Protestant church building, the Querkirche . It was renovated and restored in 1953-55 after being severely damaged in the Second World War and was last renovated in 2018.
• Railway viaduct of the Black Forest Railway
• Karlstein , rock formation, memorial stone and mountain peaks in the Niederwasser district
• City fountain in memory of the Hornberg shooting . Built in 1955 by Hugo Knittel
• Hornberger Bär on the Bear Square next to the Gutach Bridge
• Duravit Design Center

Museums

• City museum with Wilhelm Hausenstein memorial room

Regular events

Hornberg open-air theater

• Annual folk drama of Hornberg shooting by Hornberg citizens on the Erwin-Leisinger open-air stage
• Fasnet ( Swabian-Alemannic Carnival ) from Dirty Thursday to Ash Wednesday
• Traditional Schellenmarkt on Whitsun on the Fohrenbühl
• Traditional martini market every November

Personalities

Codex Manesse 251r: Mr. Bruno von Hornberg

Honorary citizen

• 1957 - Franz Schiele (1884–1963), entrepreneur and mayor
• 1957 - Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957), publicist and diplomat
• 1990 - Erwin Leisinger († 1996), local poet and author of the open-air play "Das Hornberger Schießen"
• 2012 - Franz Kook (* 1946), CEO of Duravit AG

sons and daughters of the town

• Bruno von Hornberg (1275-1310), minstrel
• Georg Heinrich Keller (1624–1702), Protestant theologian from Württemberg
• Wilhelm Ludwig Hosch (1750–1811), pietistic theologian and hymn poet
• Wilhelmine Canz (1815–1901), founder of the Großheppach sisterhood
• Otto Autenrieth (1868–1942), music pedagogue, folk song collector and political writer
• Edwin Roedder (1873–1945), German-American philologist; born in Niederwasser
• Anna Hofheinz-Gysin (1881–1928), poet, pastor's wife and housewife
• Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957), writer, art critic and cultural historian, journalist and diplomat
• Karl Spathelf (1887 - after 1945), businessman
• Friedrich Jeckeln (1895–1946), SS officer, convicted war criminal
• Albert Fritz (1899–1943), iron turner, communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Walter Storz (1906–1974), master watchmaker and founder of the Stowa watch manufacturer
• Ortrun Schätzle , b. Klenert (* 1934), politician (CDU)
• Werner Reutter (1937–2016), Director of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Charité, Berlin-Dahlem
• Frieder Schäuble (1937–2011), chairman of the Europahaus in Leipzig (patron HD Genscher)
• Siegfried Wendt (* 1940), computer scientist
• Andreas Beck (* 1948), doctor, theologian, writer and painter
• Thomas Schäuble (1948–2013), politician (CDU), director of the Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus / Black Forest, brother of Wolfgang Schäuble
• Bärbel Hähnle (* 1949), track and field athlete, 1969 vice European champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay
• Christoph Schmider (* 1960), archive director
• Michael Gebhart (* 1961), screenwriter, producer and radio host
• Arno Haas (* 1965), jazz saxophonist, composer, music producer, artist and repertoire manager and music publisher
• Nicole Armbruster (* 1975), screenwriter and editor

Personalities who have worked in the place

• Rochus Misch (1917–2013), bodyguard and telephone operator of Adolf Hitler; had a painting business in Hornberg before the war
• Heinrich Pommerenke (1937–2008), serial killer; lived in Hornberg during his deeds
• Karl Schäuble (1907–2000), German politician ( CDU ); lived in Hornberg
• Wolfgang Schäuble (* 1942), German politician ( CDU ); grew up in Hornberg
• Reinold VI. von Urslingen (≈1364–1442), Ritter; 1437 shareholder in the castle and town of Hornberg

literature

• City administration Hornberg (ed.): 900 years of Hornberg . Konkordia, Bühl [Baden] 1993.

Web links

Commons : Hornberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Hornberg  - Travel Guide

Wikisource: Matthäus Merian (editor and illustrator) and Martin Zeiller (text author): Topographia Sueviae , Frankfurt am Main 1643, pp. 98–99.  - Sources and full texts

• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg - Population by nationality and gender on December 31, 2018 (CSV file) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ documentArchiv.de: Grand Agreement between the Kingdom of Würtemberg and the Grand Duchy of Baden
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 506 and 513 .
4. ^ Hubert Röderer: Siegfried Scheffold clearly re-elected. Badische Zeitung , December 20, 2016
5. ↑ 2019 election results of the State Statistical Office
6. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community Hornberg
7. ↑ Narrenzunft Hornberg eV
8. ↑ Hornberg City Museum