Wiesenbach (Rhein-Neckar)
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Wiesenbach is a municipality in the
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is a district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The administrative headquarters are based in the city Heidelberg, which is a district-free city. As of 2019, the district is the most populous in Baden-Württe ...
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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 ...
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Geography

The town sits on the L 532/ B 45, between the heights of the Odenwald and the hills of the
Kraichgau The Kraichgau () is a hilly region in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Odenwald and the Neckar to the North, the Black Forest to the South, and the Upper Rhine Plain to the West. To the east, its boundary is c ...
about 127 to 327 meters above sea-level. It is 15 km east of
Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
. It is called the ''gateway from the little Odenwald to the Kraichgau''. The German painter Wolfgang Maria Ohlhäuser lived there for 23 years.


References

Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Baden {{RheinNeckar-geo-stub