Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park
Bergstraße-Odenwald | |
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Location | Odenwald |
Coordinates | 49°41′39″N 9°10′31″E / 49.69410°N 9.17526°ECoordinates: 49°41′39″N 9°10′31″E / 49.69410°N 9.17526°E |
Designation | NP-00001 |
Established | 1960 |
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 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
- near Reichenbach, Lautertal (Odenwald)
- between Höchst im Odenwald and
- 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
- in Walldürn-
- Eberstadt Stalactite Cave near Buchen (Odenwald)
- near Bensheim
- , a visitor mine, near
- , another visitor mine, near Schriesheim
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Categories:
- Geoparks in Germany
- Nature parks in Baden-Württemberg
- Nature parks in Bavaria
- Nature parks in Hesse
- Odenwald
- Franconia