Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park

49°41′39″N 9°10′31″E / 49.69410°N 9.17526°E / 49.69410; 9.17526DesignationNP-00001Established1960

The Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park (German: Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald) is a nature park in southern Germany with an area of 3,500 km² that lies between the rivers Rhine, Main (river) and Neckar. In the south it overlaps in places with the Neckar Valley-Odenwald Nature Park on the territory of Baden-Württemberg. In the east it meets the Bavarian Spessart Nature Park at the River Main. The nature park covers parts of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse.

Sights

  • Messel Pit,
  • Lorsch Abbey,
  • Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue, Stockstadt am Rhein
  • Odenwald Limes
  • Felsenmeer near Reichenbach, Lautertal (Odenwald)
  • Obrunn Gorge between Höchst im Odenwald and Rimhorn
  • Heidelberg and Heidelberg Castle
  • Lösswand von Haarlass in Heidelberg, the first scientific description of which by Karl Cäsar von Leonhard in 1824 led to the introduction of the term loess
  • Katzenbuckel – at 626 metres, the highest point in the Odenwald
  • Odenwald Open Air Museum in Walldürn-Gottersdorf
  • Eberstadt Stalactite Cave near Buchen (Odenwald)
  • Bergstraße Nature Conservation Centre near Bensheim
  • Marie in der Kohlbach Pit, a visitor mine, near Hohensachsen
  • Anna Elisabeth Pit, another visitor mine, near Schriesheim
A tree with autumnal foliage.
Autumn in Ober-Hambach.
Blossoming trees in Alt-Lechtern.
A wood in fog.
Beerfelden bike park.
A tree in a snowy field.
Winter in Lindenfels.
An elevated view of Heppenheim from the North-East.
Heppenheim.
Hiking in the Dürr-Ellenbacher valley, Wald-Michelbach.
A view of Eberbach Castle as you come to it from Eberbach.
Eberbach castle.
Panoramic view from Katzenbuckel to the north.

See also

References


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