Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park

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.

Bergstraße-Odenwald
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Location	Odenwald
Coordinates	49°41′39″N 9°10′31″E
Designation	NP-00001
Established	1960

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

Autumn in Ober-Hambach.

Blossoming trees in Alt-Lechtern.

Beerfelden bike park.

Winter in Lindenfels.

Heppenheim.

Hiking in the Dürr-Ellenbacher valley, Wald-Michelbach.

Eberbach castle.

Panoramic view from Katzenbuckel to the north.

See also

• List of nature parks in Germany

External links

• Official website of the nature park
• Location and extent within Bavaria (OpenStreetMap)