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
Gallery
Blossoming trees in Alt-Lechtern.
Hiking in the Dürr-Ellenbacher valley, Wald-Michelbach.
See also
References
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