The Hörnleberg is a mountain, , in the

Central Black Forest The Central Black Forest (german: Mittlerer Schwarzwald), also called the Middle Black Forest, is a natural or cultural division of the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It generally refers to a region of deeply incised valleys from t ...

in southern

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. Its summit pyramid rises around 600 metres above the apex formed by the valleys of the Elz and the

Wild Gutach The Wild Gutach (german: Wilde Gutach) is a river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It flows into the Elz (Rhine), Elz in Gutach im Breisgau. Sights and structures * Hexenlochmühle with two overshot water wheels in a ravine-like witch's hole (' ...

. Currently (2012, after forestry work) it has a view of the Elz valley and the

Upper Rhine Plain The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...

. At the summit is the pilgrimage chapel of Our Dear Lady (''Unsere Liebe Frau''), which was presumably built in the 8th or 9th century. The first record of the ''capella uf dem Hörnlin'' dates to the year 1469, in a prebendary occupancy book of the

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. According to legend, a blind man from the

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swore that if God gave him back his sight, he would build a chapel in honour of Mary on the first mountain that he saw. Two Ways of the Cross, from Bleibach and from Oberwinden, lead up to the chapel.

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External links

Homepage of the Parish of Winden
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