Horn: Hotels and Accommodation
Accommodation in Horn
Horn is home to the protected Badi Horn bathing facility, located directly on Lake Constance. It has a children's pool; access to Lake Constance is via steps, and there is a 3-metre diving platform in the lake.
View on protestant church in Horn (CH) at Constance Lake
Photo: Pufacz via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
If you choose Horn as your destination, you may want to find a hotel.
Water and Trails
A large meadow next to Badi Horn provides space for sports and leisure activities. Horn is also one of the starting points for the Lake Constance Cycle Path.
Scheduled passenger ships stop at the Zollplatz landing stage in Horn. The town has three harbours with around 320 berths for boats and 60 berths for dinghies. Bicycles can be loaded at Horn railway station and at the Zollplatz landing stage.
Getting Around
A direct bus from Horn railway station reaches St. Gallen main station in 30 minutes.
Culture and History
Horn Castle was built in the second half of the 16th century or the early 17th century. Its entrance portal reuses a choir screen from a castle chapel built after 1716 and destroyed in 1826.
The municipal protection plan lists the Catholic church, Horn Castle and the Protestant church as protected cultural objects. In a document from 1155, the place name is recorded as “Horna”.
The greenhouse on the eastern side of Horn Castle contains murals depicting the four seasons. They were created by the painter Theo Glintz around 1930 and restored in 2001.
Nature
Horn Castle has a very large park with remarkable old trees. It is separated from the lakeshore only by Seestrasse.
The inventory of protected natural objects also lists the avenue of horse chestnut trees “Rosskastanien Seestrasse West”.
To the higher-level travel overview: Arbon District.
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