The Kleiner Odenwald (“Little Odenwald”) is the southern part of the central German hill range, the Odenwald, and is up to . It is also part of the natural region of Sandstein-Odenwald in the north of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Lying east-southeast of Heidelberg and south of the River Neckar, which separates the Kleiner Odenwald from the rest of the Odenwald, its landscape is shaped by the underlying sandstone that also dominates the northern Odenwald.
Geography Location The Kleiner Odenwald lies in the counties of Rhein-Neckar and Neckar-Odenwald and on the territory of the city of Heidelberg. It is bounded in the north by the Neckar and the settlements of Neckargemünd and Eberbach, in the east by the Neckar and e.g. by Obrigheim, in the south by Reichartshausen, Waibstadt and Eschelbronn and in the west by Wiesloch, Leimen and Heidelberg on the River Neckar. Municipalities in the area are: Lobbach, Bammental, Gaiberg, Wiesenbach, Aglasterhausen, Schwarzach, Neunkirchen and Schönbrunn. The most important streams are the Elsenz, Schwarzbach and Lobbach.
Somewhat east of the Kleiner Odenwaldes lies the Bauland, south of the Kraichgau and west of the Upper Rhine Plain. In the southeast is part of the Brunnen region.
Hills The hills and high points of the Kleiner Odenwald include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above Normalhöhennull (NHN): Königstuhl (567.8 m), east of Heidelberg Hebert (518.8 m), south of Eberbach-Neckarwimmersbach Auerhahnenkopf (486.9 m), south of Heidelberg-Schlierbach Hirschhornberg (461.6 m), northwest of Oberschönbrunn Kolben (on the Oberen Neckarberg; 408.9 m), north-northeast of Schönbrunn-Moosbrunn Gaisberg (375.6 m), east of Heidelberg Neckarberge (367.5 m), south of Mückenloch-Neckarhäuserhof Oberer Stadtwald (360.6 m), east of Neckargemünd Unterer Stadtwald (325.5 m), southwest of Neckargemünd Hirschberg (somewhat over 300 m), northeast of Nußloch Neckarriedkopf (293.8 m), southwest of Neckargemünd in the Unteren Stadtwald Hollmut (284.8 m), south of Neckargemünd Salzberg (259.3 m), west-southwest of Lobbach-Lobenfeld Bammertsberg (249.9 m), north of Bammental
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