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The Heilbronn Hills (german: Heilbronner Berge) in the borough of

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Mid ...

with foothills in the county of

are the northwestern outliers of the Lowenstein Hills in the south German state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

and reach a height of . Together with the Sulm Plateau to the northeast they are often known as the Heilbronn Uplands (''Heilbronner Bergland'').

Geography

Location

The Heilbronn Hills forms the northwestern foothills of the Löwenstein Hills in the west-northwestern part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest. The region extends from north to south, bulging eastwards in a sickle-shape around the city of Heilbronn. In the north and northeast it is bounded by the valley of Weinsberger Tal on the far side of which is the Sulm Plateau. To the east on the other side of the valley of the Stadtseebach (''Saubach'') are the west-northwest foothills of the

Mainhardt Forest The Mainhardt Forest is a hill range up to {{GeoQuelle, DE, BFN-Karten in the counties of Schwäbisch Hall and Heilbronn, Hohenlohekreis and Rems-Murr-Kreis in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is named after the municipality of Mainha ...

, to the southeast the range transitions into the Lowenstein Hills themselves and in the southwest, west and northwest they descend in keuper escarpments into the

Neckar Basin The Neckar () is a river in Germany, mainly flowing through the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, with a short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenn ...

. Villages dot the edges of the Heilbronn Hills, many, especially those in the borough of Heilbronn, extending into the hills: Erlenbach and

Weinsberg Weinsberg (South Franconian: ''Weischberg'') is a town in the north of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It was founded around 1200 and is situated in the Heilbronn district. The town has about 11,800 inhabitants. It is noted for its win ...

in the north,

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(further away) in the east, Obergruppenbach in the southeast,

Untergruppenbach Untergruppenbach () is a municipality near Heilbronn, a city in the northern half of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. There are a total of 7,600 inhabitants living in six villages that form the municipality of Untergruppenbach. Approxim ...

in the south,

Flein Flein () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Flein is situated in the south of the district of Heilbronn and directly borders on to Heilbronn in the south. Neighbouring municip ...

and Sontheim in the southwest,

in the west and

Neckarsulm Neckarsulm () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, near Heilbronn, and part of the district of Heilbronn. , Neckarsulm had 26,800 inhabitants. The name Neckarsulm derives from the city's location where the Neckar and Sulm rivers ...

in the northwest.

Natural regions

From a

natural region A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate. From the ecology, ecological point of view, the naturally occurring fl ...

perspective, the Heilbronn Hills (No. 108.13) with the Weinsberger Tal (108.12) and the Sulmer Bergebene (108.11) are part of the Lowenstein Hills (108.1) within the

Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains The Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains (german: Schwäbisches Keuper-Lias-Land) is a major natural region in southwest Germany and includes the southwesternmost part of the Keuper Uplands, which is bordered immediately to the north by the Swabian Jura. N ...

(10) and Swabian-Franconian Forest (108).

Hills

The high points of the Heilbronn Hills included the following – sorted by height in

metre The metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit , from the Greek noun , "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its pref ...

s (m) above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...

(NHN; unless otherwise stated according to the ): * Reisberg (378.0 m), 1.5 km north-northeast of the Heilbronn village of Obergruppenbach * Schweinsberg (372.8 m), 1.5 km northwest of the Heilbronn village of Donnbronn * Hintersberg (364.5 m), 1.6 km northwest of Obergruppenbach * Dornberg (344.5 m), 0.8 km northwest of Obergruppenbach * Wartberg (313.3 m), 2.3 km northeast of Heilbronn's city centre * Galgenberg (ca. 312 m), 3.8 km east of Heilbronn's city centre * Staufenberg (300.7 m), 1.5 km northeast of the Heilbronn village of

* Büchelberg (293.0 m), 3.5 km southeast of Heilbronn's city centre * Gaffenberg (278.1 m), ca. 3 km southeast of Heilbronn's city centre * Stiftsberg (255.4 m), ca. 3 km north-northeast of Heilbronn's city centre * Hagelsberg (265.5 m), 1 km north-northeast of Flein

References

Naturräumliche Haupteinheiten Deutschlands – Naturraum-Nummern 10–19, at wikipedia.de Höhe vo
''Wartberg''
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