Hornberg

Hornberg is a town in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Black Forest, 35 km southeast of Offenburg, and 25 km northwest of Villingen-Schwenningen. Baden-Wurttemberg is fashioned from the ancient territories of Baden, Prussian Hohenzollern, and Wurttemberg, and also parts of Swabia. In one hundred AD, the Roman Empire invaded and occupied Württemberg, building a limes fortified boundary sector along its northern borders.

Over the route of the 1/3 century AD, the Alemanni compelled the Romans to retreat west past the Rhine and Danube rivers. In 496 AD the Alemanni were defeated with the aid of a Frankish invasion led via Clovis I. The Holy Roman Empire turned into later installed. The majority of human beings in this place endured to be Roman Catholics, even after the Protestant Reformation motivated populations in northern Germany. In the overdue-nineteenth and early-20th centuries, severa humans emigrated from this normally rural location to the USA for financial motives.