The Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park (german: Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald) is one of the largest nature parks in
Baden-Württemberg, Germany with a size of 1520 km².
In the north, the
Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park
The Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park (german: Geo-Naturpark Bergstraße-Odenwald) 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 ...
is located in Hesse and Bavaria, some areas in the north of Baden-Württemberg belong to both nature parks. The nature park is run by Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald
e. V., which was founded in
Eberbach in 1980.
Geography
The nature park is located in the north of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the administrative districts of
Rhine-Neckar-Kreis and
Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis.
It encompasses the wooded low mountain range landscape of the
Odenwald
The Odenwald () is a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Location
The Odenwald is located between the Upper Rhine Plain with the Bergstraße and the ''Hessisches Ried'' (the northeastern section ...
with the bordering landscapes of Bergstrasse in the west,
Bauland in the east,
Kraichgau in the south and the
Neckar
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 ...
valley.
The diversity of the landscape also translates into geological diversity, where we can observe granite formations (Odenwald and Bergstraße), sandstone formations (Rear Odenwald, Maly and partially Kraichgau) and limestone formations (Kraichgau and Bauland), as well as the visible activity of volcanoes from 65 million years ago (Katzenbuckel).
The 1:50,000 scale hiking map of the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park in the southwest and southeast, published by the Baden-Württemberg State Surveying Office, for example, provides a detailed presentation.
References
External links
Der Katzenbuckel - Zeugenberg des Vulkanismus
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Nature parks in Baden-Württemberg
Danube
1980 establishments in West Germany
Valleys of Baden-Württemberg