Homberg may refer to:
Places
Germany
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Homberg (Efze)
Homberg () is a small town in the northern part of Hesse, a state in central Germany, with about 15,000 inhabitants. It is the seat of the Schwalm-Eder district. In 2008, the town hosted the 48th Hessentag state festival.
Geography
Homberg lies in ...
, administrative seat of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse
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Homberg (Ohm)
Homberg (Ohm) () is a town in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
Location
The officially recognized climatic spa of Homberg lies from 203 to 350 m above sea level in the valley of the Ohm, a tributary to the Lahn, some 19 km so ...
, in the district of Vogelsbergkreis, Hesse
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Homberg, Westerwaldkreis, in the district of Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Homberg, Kusel
Homberg () is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein.
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, in the district of Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Homberg (Ratingen), in Ratingen
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Homberg (Duisburg)
Homberg/Ruhrort/Baerl () is a Stadtbezirk (borough/district) within the city of Duisburg, Germany. The population is 39 725 and the district has an area of 37.1 km² (as of December 31, 2014).Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg Duisburg-Homberg und -Ho ...
, in Duisburg
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Hömberg
Hömberg is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in E ...
, municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Homberg (Hinterland), mountain of Hesse
Switzerland
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Homberg, Switzerland
Homberg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Originally the small farming villages that make up Homberg were part of the ''Herrschaft'' of Heimberg under the House of Kyburg. ...
, in the Canton of Bern
People with the surname
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Wilhelm Homberg
Wilhelm Homberg (January 8, 1652 – September 24, 1715), also known as Guillaume Homberg in French, was a German natural philosopher.
Life
Wilhelm Homberg was the son of John Homberg, a Saxon gentleman, originally from Quedlinburg, who was str ...
(1652-1715), Dutch chemist
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Herz Homberg (1749-1841), Austrian educator and writer
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Octave Homberg
Octave Marie Joseph Kérim Homberg, Jr. (19 January 1876 – 9 July 1941) was a French diplomat, author, and financier. He was director of the Indo-China Bank.
Biography
He was born on 19 January 1876 in Paris, France to w:fr:Octave Homberg (1844 ...
(1876-1941), French diplomat
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House of Homberg
The House of Homberg (also spelled ''Honberg'', historically '' Hochinberc, Hochenberg''; also Thierstein, ''Tierstein'') was a noble family of medieval Switzerland; they had the title of count from late 11th to early 16th century. They ruled ove ...
(medieval Switzerland)
See also
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Homburg (disambiguation)
Homburg or Hombourg may refer to
Places In Germany
* Homburg, Saarland, capital of the Saarpfalz district of Saarland
* Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, town and spa in Hesse
* Homburg Forest, (''Homburgwald'') a hill range in Lower Saxony
* Homburg, a ...
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Homburg (hat)
A homburg is a semi-formal hat of fur felt, characterized by a single dent running down the centre of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a wide silk grosgrain hatband ribbon, a flat brim shaped in a "pencil curl", and a ribbon-bound trim abo ...
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Hamburg (disambiguation)
Hamburg, officially the ''Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg'', is Germany's second-largest city and a federated state.
Hamburg may also refer to:
Places Germany
* Port of Hamburg, the deep-water harbor of Hamburg
United States
* Glenville, N ...
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