History
Horb was first documented as horv or horva, meaning swamp in Old High German, at 1090.
It is unclear when the city first got Town privileges.
In 1981 Horb became a Große Kreisstadt (major district town) due to an appliction of the city council when Horb reached a population figure of over 20,000 at 1979
Read more about this topic: Horb Am Neckar
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