Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park

The Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park (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 with the Neckar Valley-Odenwald Nature Park on the territory of Baden-Württemberg. In the east it meets the Bavarian Spessart Nature Park at the River Main. The nature park covers parts of the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse.

Sights

 * Messel Pit,
 * Lorsch Abbey,
 * Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue, Stockstadt am Rhein
 * Odenwald Limes
 * Felsenmeer near Reichenbach, Lautertal (Odenwald)
 * Obrunn Gorge between Höchst im Odenwald and Rimhorn
 * Heidelberg and Heidelberg Castle
 * Lösswand von Haarlass in Heidelberg, the first scientific description of which by Karl Cäsar von Leonhard in 1824 led to the introduction of the term loess
 * Katzenbuckel – at 626 metres, the highest point in the Odenwald
 * Odenwald Open Air Museum in Walldürn-Gottersdorf
 * Eberstadt Stalactite Cave near Buchen (Odenwald)
 * Bergstraße Nature Conservation Centre near Bensheim
 * Marie in der Kohlbach Pit, a visitor mine, near Hohensachsen
 * Anna Elisabeth Pit, another visitor mine, near Schriesheim