The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun, right on the Schinderhannes-Radweg (cycle path) at a mean elevation of 360 m above sea level.
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Richard Oertel (1860–1932), born in Horn, clergyman and from 1912 to 1918 an elected member of the National Liberal Party in the Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus (Prussian Parliament), and later, in 1919 and 1920 an elected member of the German People's Party (DVP) in the Weimar National Assembly and from 1920 to 1924 a member of the first Weimar Reichstag.