The Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park () 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
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See also List of nature parks in Germany
References
External links
Official website of the nature park Location and extent within Bavaria (OpenStreetMap)