Odenwald Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Odenwald
Overview of the Odenwald
Highest point
Peak	Katzenbuckel
Elevation	626 m (2,054 ft) NHN
Dimensions
Area	2,500 km² (970 sq mi)
Geography
Location in Germany
Country	Germany
State/Province	Hesse, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg
Range coordinates	49°35′N 9°1′E / 49.583°N 9.017°E / 49.583; 9.017

Map where one can see the Odenwald within Germany

The Odenwald is a mountain chain in the south of Hesse, in the north of Bavaria and the north of Baden-Württemberg.

In the south of the Odenwald there is the Neckar River. In the east there is the Main River . In the west there is the valley of the Rhine River. The highest mountain is the Katzenbuckel (literally "cat's hump", 626 m).

The big cities Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main are near to the Odenwald. People of these cities like to go there at holidays. It is known for its clean thin air. There are many marked hiking paths. You can find wild blueberries, strawberries and mushrooms in the forests.

Several small towns are very beautiful like Weinheim on the Bergstraße and Michelstadt. The mild climate of the area is well known.

Images for kids

The Reichenbach felsenmeer in autumn
Felsenmeer near Reichenbach (Lautertal) in winter
Characteristic sandstone formation near Eberbach
Roman manor house Villa Haselburg near Höchst (Mümling)
Wild Woman (Wildweibchen) with a unicorn (Straßburg around 1500)
The Himbächel viaduct on the Odenwald Railway)
The Margarethenschlucht (gorge)
Every year the Heppenheimer Street Theatre Gassensensationen occupies the marketplace and other corners of the old town
Granite-Gneiss-Odenwald (Altherr, 1999)
Granite-Gneiss-Odenwald (Stein, 2001)
Granite-Gneiss- and Redsandstone-Odenwald (Stein, 2001 + Weber, Geo-Naturpark)
Geological profile (from left): Rheinplane, Granite-Odenwald, Gneiss-Odenwald, Redsandstone-Odenwald (Geo-Naturpark)
Siegfriedbrunnen by Wilhelm Trübner. In the legend there is no exact description in respect of the hunting trip.
Rodenstein Castle is the scene of the Rodensteiner ghost legend (19th-century picture).
The Crystal Teaching Path around the Katzenbuckel starts near the old volcanic quarry (below-mentioned)
Neutsch with a view to Neunkirchen and the Neunkircher Höhe
View from Weschnitz- Valley to the mountains Hardberg (with transmitter), Götzenstein, Kisselbusch (from left)
Weschnitz- Valley with a view to Tromm-mountain range
Overlooking the Krehberg (view from Lindenfels)
The Waldskopf in the Gorxheim valley
The Melibokus near Zwingenberg
With a view from the Lauter- Valley (Hohenstein) to the Melibokus (right) and the Auerbach Castle (background, in the middle)
The Gesprenz-Valley gneiss-sandstone-mountain range: Böllsteiner Höhe on the left, Morsberg in the middle
The Felsberg (with transmitter, view from the Lauter-Valley), Auerbach-Castle and Melibokus on the left
The Daumberg in the Gorxheim valley
The Weschnitz-Valley with Hirschkopf-Juhöhe-mountain range (view from the Tromm)
The Gersprenz in Dieburg
The Mümling in Erbach
The Eutersee near Hesseneck
Climbing path at the Breuberg-Hainstadt quarry
Hohenstein near Reichenbach (Baryte-quartz-cliff)
Borstein near Reichenbach (Baryte-quartz-cliff)
Giant tortoise gneiss rocks (Böllstein)
Granite rocks (Tromm)
Reichenbach-Felsenmeer: The giant column (Riesensäule) is a workpiece of Roman stonemasons.
Granite rocks Wildfrauhaus (Fischbachtal)
Zwingenberg (Neckar) gorge: Wolfsschlucht
When Caspar und Max begin with casting the magic bullets in the Wolf’s Glen the Wild Hunt appears in the air with demoniacal noise.
The rocks at the Juhöhe are supposed to be the petrified dogheads of the Rodensteiner cry of hounds
It is said, that the holes of the Opfersteine were offering cups for the devil.
People of the Kreiswald near the Juhöhe told, that a long time ago the granite formation was the flat iron of Giant-ladies

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