The Mainhardt Forest is a

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up to {{GeoQuelle, DE, BFN-Karten in the counties of

Schwäbisch Hall Schwäbisch Hall (; "Swabian Hall"; from 1802 until 1934 and colloquially: ''Hall'' ) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg located in the valley of the Kocher river, the longest tributary (together with its headwater Lein) of the ...

and

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 ...

Hohenlohekreis The Hohenlohe (german: Hohenlohekreis ) is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Neckar-Odenwald, Main-Tauber, Schwäbisch Hall and Heilbronn. Künzelsau is the ...

and

Rems-Murr-Kreis Rems-Murr is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the middle of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Heilbronn, Schwäbisch Hall, Ostalbkreis, Göppingen, Esslingen, the district-free city Stuttgart and the distr ...

in the 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 ...

. It is named after the municipality of

Mainhardt Mainhardt is a municipality in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. See also * Mainhardt Forest The Mainhardt Forest is a hill range up to {{GeoQuelle, DE, BFN-Karten in the counties of Schwäbisch Hall and Heil ...

that lies at its centre.

Hills

The highest point of the Mainhardt Forest is the '' Hohe Brach'' (586.4 m) between the villages of Erlach and Grab in the municipality of

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. Another hill in the range is the Steinknickle (524.9 m) near Wüstenrot. Near

the treeless ''

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'' of the ''Altwald'' (552.0 m) offers a view far across the Swabian-Franconian Forest. On the forested ''kuppe'' of the '' Flinsberg'' (also called the ''Flehnsberg'') (534.8 m) near

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are mighty outcrops of

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/ref> In the southeast the Mainhardt Forest runs between the valleys of the Rot and

Kocher The Kocher () is a -longincluding its source river Schwarzer Kocher right tributary of the Neckar in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The name "Kocher" originates from its Celtic name "cochan" and probably means winding, mea ...

in a ridge called the '' Kirgel'' (459.4 m), on which there is an observation tower, the Kerner Tower. On its eastern perimeter near Westheim the ''Steinbühl'' (484.4 m) rises over the Kocher valley.

References

Literature

* Egil Pastor: ''Die Räuber vom Mainhardter Wald: eine Kriminalgeschichte aus dem 18. Jahrhundert''. Verlag Haller Tagblatt GmbH, 1986 * ''Schwäbischer Wald''. Merian, 1968 * Fritz Schall: ''Waldpflege im Mainhardter Wald'', in: Naturpark Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald. Special edition of the ''Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift'', No. 41/1980, pp. 1102f Regions of Baden-Württemberg Mountain and hill ranges of Baden-Württemberg Forests and woodlands of Baden-Württemberg Natural regions of the Swabian Keuper-Lias Plains