• Source: Kleiner Odenwald

The Kleiner Odenwald (“Little Odenwald”) is the southern part of the central German hill range, the Odenwald, and is up to 567.8 m above sea level (NHN). 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

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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

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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




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Kleiner Odenwald
• Odenwald
• Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
• List of places in Hesse
• List of mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg
• List of mountains and hills of Hesse
• Meckesheim–Neckarelz railway
• Spechbach, Baden-Württemberg
• Thuringian Forest
• List of mountain and hill ranges in Germany