The Heuchelberg is a hill ridge, about 15 kilometres long and up to , a few kilometres southwest of the city 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 ...

in the eponymous county 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 ...

Location

The Heuchelberg and the adjacent Stromberg region south of the River

Zaber The Zaber () is a minor tributary of the River Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is some 22 km in length and joins the Neckar from the west at Lauffen am Neckar. It has given its name to the Zabergäu, the area between the Heuchelb ...

both give their names to the Stromberg-Heuchelberg Nature Park founded in 1980, the third

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in Baden-Württemberg. The Heuchelberg runs through the western part of the county of Heilbronn between

Leingarten Leingarten () is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 7 km west of Heilbronn. It was formed 1 January 1970, when the municipalities of Großgartach and Schluchtern merged. Geography Location Lein ...

in the northeast and

Zaberfeld Zaberfeld () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Zaberfeld lies in the Zabergäu, in the southwestern corner of the Heilbronn district, at the head of the Zaber river. Neighboring communities Zabe ...

in the southwest. It lies on the territories of the following towns and villages (clockwise from the northeast): Leingarten, Nordheim,

Brackenheim Brackenheim () is a town in the ''Landkreis'' Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is southwest of Heilbronn. With of vineyards, it is the biggest grape-growing municipality of Württemberg. Geography Geographical positio ...

Güglingen Güglingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 18 km southwest of Heilbronn. Geography Güglingen is situated in a valley called Zabergäu in the southwest district of Heilbron ...

, Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld (in the southwest) and

Eppingen Eppingen () is a town in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The town has the second-largest population in the district. Eppingen lies in the Kraichgau, a hilly region in southwestern Germany, close to the conflu ...

(only the municipality of Kleingartach),

Schwaigern Schwaigern () is a town in the district of Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 12 km west of Heilbronn. Geography Neighbouring municipalities The neighbouring towns and municipalities of Schwaigern (clockwise) are: Leinga ...

and finally Leingarten again.

Hills

The hills and high points of the Heuchelberg ridge include the following − sorted by height in metres above

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN):Map services
of the

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* unnamed highest point of the Heuchelberg rubbish tip (353 m), between Stetten and Haberschlacht * Heidelberg (335.9 m), between Neipperg and

Nordhausen Nordhausen may refer to: * Nordhausen (district), a district in Thuringia, Germany ** Nordhausen, Thuringia, a city in the district **Nordhausen station, the railway station in the city * Nordhouse, a commune in Alsace (German: Nordhausen) * Narost ...

* High point on the ''Wolfsgrube'' (335.7 m), between Stetten and Haberschlacht * Eichbühl (335 m), between Neipperg and Stetten * Ottilienberg (313.6 m), between

and Kleingartach; including a

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* Spitzenberg (276.4 m), in

; with

transmission tower A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon in British English and as a hydro tower in Canadian English, is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. In electrical gri ...

s and former castle of ''Burghalde''

References

External links

Karte des Heuchelbergs
auf: * {{Authority control Regions of Baden-Württemberg Heilbronn (district) Natural regions of the Neckar and Tauber Gäu Plateaus