Odenwald-Bergstraße Region

The Bergstraße and the Odenwald region are home to medieval castles, historic half-timbered towns, and landscaped cultural landscapes. Despite the war damage in 1945, Bensheim boasts a charming old town center with half-timbered buildings and former noble estates. Towering high above the Auerbach district is Auerbach Castle, built around 1230.

In the Odenwald, the castle ruins dominate the medieval town of Lindenfels, while Michelstadt has preserved a particularly cohesive historic townscape with half-timbered buildings spanning several centuries and a town hall dating from 1484. The Eulbach English Garden, laid out as a landscape park beginning in 1802, combines landscape architecture with Roman artifacts from the Odenwald Limes. Further south, overlooking the Neckar Valley, lies Zwingenberg Castle, whose medieval complex was rebuilt starting in 1404 after being destroyed in 1364.