"Hohes Horn" is a mountain in the Middle Black Forest (547 m). Offenburg's "local mountain" is a very popular viewpoint. From its 20 m high lookout tower you have a magnificent panoramic view into the valley of the Kinzig with its side valleys, the Ortenau with its fertile vineyards and fruit gardens, over the Rhine valley and even to the Vosges and Strasbourg, where you can see the cathedral tower. First walk south from the Town Hall along Hauptstrasse, turn left at the crossroad to Grabenallee and into the park (rose garden) along the ancient town wall up to Lange Strasse. There you see an erratic block in front of especially beautiful trees with a roundel of the composer Carl lsenmann. He became especially well-known for setting Ludwig Auersbach's poem "0 Schwarzwald, o Heimat" to music. Now cross the railway and walk along Ortenberger Strasse for about 700 m until you reach the bifurcation to Fessenbach; turn left here and you reach the hiking path to "Hohes Horn" after about one kilometer - about 200 m before the first houses of Fessenbach. Turn off the road to the right here and walk through the meadows and vineyards of Fessenbach through a narrow pass on a slightly rising path for about 500 m to "Badische Weinstrasse", cross this road and walk on through "SenatorBurdaStrasse" past the "Kloster" and the "Vinegrowing estate Dr. Burda" until you reach the carpark and sports grounds of "Schuckshof" at the edge of the woods. From here the convenient marked hiking path to "Hohes Horn" follows the forest road, which branches off to the right. The marked way back leads you from "Hohes Horn" via "Bühlhof" to "Böcklinstein" and "Hexenstein" down the path to the valley past the quarry, through "Zell-Riedle" (here you should allow yourself a hearty Black Forest "Vesper" (snack) in one of the nice restaurants as a reward for your hike) and ZellWeierbach along Weingartenstrasse (at the end of the village on the lefthand side you see the pilgrimage church "Maria Schmerz" and "Maria Schnee" built in 1336) back to Offenburg.
