Homburg is a town in Saarland

Saarland

Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, the administrative seat of the Saarpfalz district. With a population of c. 44,000 inhabitants, is the third city in its federal state. The medical department of the University of Saarland

Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

 is situated here. The city is also home to the Karlsberg

Karlsberg (Brewery)

Karlsberg is one of the largest breweries in Germany; the Karlsberg Group also owns various other beer brands. It is called Karlsbräu outside of Germany to differentiate it from the Danish brewing company Carlsberg.-History:...

 beer brewery. Major employers include Michelin

Michelin

Michelin is a tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the two largest tyre manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands...

 and Robert Bosch GmbH

Robert Bosch GmbH

Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...

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History

The Hohenburg Castle, nowadays a ruin, was in the 12th Century the seat of the counts of Homburg. In 1330 the village received the town status (Stadtrecht) by Louis the Bavarian

Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor

Louis IV , called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was the King of Germany from 1314, the King of Italy from 1327 and the Holy Roman Emperor from 1328....

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Geography

Homburg is situated in north of the district of Saarpfalz

Saarpfalz

Saarpfalz is a Kreis in the south-east of the Saarland, Germany. Neighboring districts are Saarbrücken, Neunkirchen, Kusel, Kaiserslautern, Südwestpfalz, district-free Zweibrücken, and the French département Moselle.-History:After the Treaty of Versailles, the Saar basin was placed under the...

, close to the borders of Saarland with Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....

 and not too far from France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It dists 16 km from Neunkirchen

Neunkirchen, Saarland

Neunkirchen is a town and a municipality in Saarland, Germany. It is the largest town in, and the seat of the district of Neunkirchen. It is situated on the river Blies, approx. 20 km northeast of Saarbrücken. With about 50,000 inhabitants, Neunkirchen is Saarland's 2nd largest city...

 and 36 km from Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

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The town counts 9 villages: Beeden, Bruchhof-Sanddorf, Einöd, Erbach, Jägersburg, Kirrberg, Reiskirchen, Schwarzenbach and Wörschweiler.

Main sights

• Homburg is home to the Schlossberg Höhlen (Schlossberg Caves).
• Homburg is the home of Gutenbrunnen (Schloss Louisenthal).
• Homburg is the home of the Schloss Karlsberg (Karlsberg Castle
  Karlsberg castle
  Karlsberg Castle is a castle ruin on Buchenberg east of Homburg in Saarland, Germany. The castle was constructed from 1778 to 1788 in Baroque and Classical style by Johann Christian von Mannlich, architect and general building director of the dukes of Zweibrücken, by order of Charles II August,...
  
  )

Transport

Homburg Hauptbahnhof

Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof

of the city of Homburg in the German state of Saarland. It is a through station with four platforms and seven platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a station of category 3. It is located at the junction of the Homburg–Neunkirchen line and the Mannheim–Saarbrücken line...

 is the main railway station in the town, served by long-distance and regional trains. By road transport, the town is served by the motorways A6

Bundesautobahn 6

, also known as Via Carolina is a 477 km long German autobahn. It starts at the French border near Saarbrücken in the west and end at the Czech border near Waidhaus in the east....

 (exit Homburg) and A8

Bundesautobahn 8

is an autobahn in southern Germany that runs 497 km from the Luxembourg A13 motorway at Schengen via Neunkirchen, Pirmasens, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich to the Austrian West Autobahn near Salzburg....

 (exits Limbach and Einöd).

Personalities

• Timo Bernhard
  Timo Bernhard
  Timo Bernhard is a sports car racer. He is currently a Porsche factory driver, but has been seconded to Audi for selected events in 2009 and 2010...
  
   (born 1981, sports car racer)
• Horst Ehrmantraut
  Horst Ehrmantraut
  Horst Ehrmantraut is a German former professional football defender and manager.-Plastic chair:What is a very well known and characteristic feature of Ehrmantraut, is a plastic chair, from which he followed the matches...
  
   (born 1955, former football player)
• Markus Heitz
  Markus Heitz
  Markus Heitz is a German fantasy author, most famous for his four-book "Dwarves" saga. Heitz has in the last couple of years gained popularity within Europe, due to the English translations of his books. As of October 2010, two out of four of the "Dwarves"-books have been translated into English...
  
   (born 1971, fantasy author)
• Michael Jakosits
  Michael Jakosits
  Michael Jakosits is a German sports shooter and Olympic champion. He won gold medal in 10 metre running target at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He placed fifth at the 2004 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
   (born 1970, olympic sports shooter)
• Laura Steinbach
  Laura Steinbach
  Laura Steinbach is a German handball player. She plays for the club TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and for the German national team.-Career:...
  
   (born 1985, handball player)
• Andreas Walzer (born 1970, former cyclist)

International relations

Homburg is twinned

Town twinning

Twin towns and sister cities are two of many terms used to describe the cooperative agreements between towns, cities, and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.- Terminology :...

 with: La Baule, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, since 1984 Ilmenau

Ilmenau

Ilmenau is a town located in the district of Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany.Ilmenau is situated in the valley of the Ilm river, at an altitude of 431 metres above sea level, and is the biggest town in Ilm-Kreis district, with 6,200 students studying at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. The...

, Germany, since 1989

External links

Homburg official website Literature about Homburg