Editing Odenwald (section)

=== Castles ===
The Odenwald is home to many historic castles and palatial residences. In times past the fortresses on the top of the Odenwald mountains controlled Bergstraße and the Weschnitz-, the Gersprenz-, the Mümling- and the Neckar-Valley.

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File:Panorama castle frankenstein.jpg|''Frankenstein'' near [[Darmstadt]]/Upper Rhine Rift valley
File:InnerCastle.jpg|[[Frankenstein Castle]]
File:Spot Ruine Tannenberg.JPG| The ruins of ''Tannenberg'' near Seeheim ([[Seeheim-Jugenheim]])
File:Seeheim-Jugenheim-Heiligenberg-Schloss.jpg|''Heiligenberg'' Castle near Jugenheim ([[Seeheim-Jugenheim]])
File:Alsbach 2.JPG|''Alsbach'' Castle, view from ''Melibokus'' ([[Alsbach-Hähnlein]])
File:Schloss Auerbach.jpg|The ruins of ''Auerbach'' Castle near [[Bensheim]]
File:Fürstenlager Bensheim.jpg|Park and mansion ''Fürstenlager'' near Bensheim-Auerbach
File:Schoenberger Schloss 02.jpg|''Schönberg'' Castle ([[Bensheim]]-Schönberg)
File:2005-10-13 Heppenheim 2.JPG|[[Bergstraße Route|Bergstaße]]: ''Starkenburg'' (view from Maiberg, [[Heppenheim]])
File:Starkenburg Schlossberg.jpg|''Starkenburg'' with ''Schlossberg'' ([[Heppenheim]])
File:Schloss Weinheim 04.jpg|''[[Weinheim]]'' Castle
File:Burg Windeck (Weinheim).jpg|The ruins of ''Windeck'' ([[Weinheim]])
File:Wachenburg.jpg|''Wachenburg'' near [[Weinheim]] (''Two-Castles-Town'')
File:WEINHEIM_Heidelberger Granitgebiet_658.JPG|''Wachenburg'' (view from ''Hirschkopf''-tower), ''Weißer Stein (lookout tower) in the background''
File:Schriesheim Strahlenburg2.JPG| ''Strahlenburg'' near [[Schriesheim]]
File:Dossenheim_Schauenburg.jpg|The ruins of ''Schauenburg'' in [[Dossenheim]]
File:Birkenau schloss.JPG| [[Birkenau (Odenwald)|Birkenau]] Castle near Weinheim
File:BurgLindenfels.jpg|The ruins of [[Lindenfels]] Castle, ''Bürgerturm'' (tower)
File:Lindenfels_Weschnitztal_824.JPG|View from ''Weschnitztal'' to Lindenfels (left), in the background right of centre: ''Reichenberg'' Castle, left picture margin: ''Neunkircher Höhe''
File: Rodenstein_1.jpg|The ruins of ''Rodenstein'' near [[Fränkisch-Crumbach]] are the setting of a ghost story: ''Rodensteiner'' flies with a berserker-cornet in the night through the air to prophesy the start of a war (see above).
File:Reichelsheim_Schloss Reichenberg_2.jpg|''Reichenberg'' Castle, entrance, near [[Reichelsheim (Odenwald)|Reichelsheim]]
File:Gersprenztal_Böllsteiner_Odenwald.JPG|''Gersprenz''-Valley with Reichenberg
File:Schloss Lichtenberg Blick vom Bollwerk.jpg| ''Lichtenberg'' Castle (Fischbachtal)
File:Nördliche Flasergranitoidzone Reinheimer Bucht.JPG|''Neunkircher Höhe'' with a view to ''Lichtenberg'' Castle (left) and the ''Reinheimer Bucht'': ''Otzberg'' to the right of centre
File:Wilhelm Trübner - Schlosspark in Lichtenberg im Odenwald (1900).jpg|''Castle Grounds in Lichtenberg in Odenwald'', [[Wilhelm Trübner]], 1900. Colección Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza.
File:Otzberg panoramo 2.jpg|extinct volcano ''[[Otzberg]]'' and the old fort ''Veste Otzberg'' with the white tower
File:Schloss Erbach Odenwald.jpg| [[Erbach im Odenwald|Erbach]] Castle
File:Schlossfuerstenau2.jpg|''Fürstenau'' Castle (near [[Michelstadt]]) with decorative gateway arch
File:Bad Koenig Altes Schloss.jpg|Old Castle in [[Bad König]]
File:Burg Breuberg - Breuberg Odenwald.jpg|''Burg [[Breuberg]]'' near Höchst in the summer of 2006
File:Burg Breuberg05.jpg|[[Breuberg]] Castle, keep (Bergfried) and main gate
File:Wildenburg1.JPG|The ruins of ''Wildenberg'' (Kirchzell) from the High Middle Ages,  built in the Staufer era, where [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]] is said to have written parts of his [[Parzival]].
File:Wolfram47.jpg|Portrait of the medieval poet [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]] from the Codex Manesse
File:Burg Wildenberg Kamin 1.jpg|Fireplace in the great hall. In Wolframs ''Parzival'' the author indirectly compares the gigantic fireplace in the ''Grail Castle'' with that of ''Wildenberg'': “so groziu fiwer sit noch e sach niemen hie ze Wildenberc” (line 230,12-13)
File:Burg Freienstein01.jpg|The ruins of ''Freienstein'' near [[Beerfelden]]
File:Waldleiningen.jpg|''Waldleiningen'' Castle in the British-style (near Mudau)
File:Heidelberg corr.jpg|[[Heidelberg]] with [[Heidelberg Castle|Castle]] and the Old Bridge over river [[Neckar]]
File:Neckarsteinach1.JPG|[[Neckarsteinach]] with ''Mittelburg'' (left) and ''Vorderburg'' (in the middle)
File:Neckarsteinach_Vorderburg.JPG|[[Neckarsteinach]]: ''Vorderburg''
File:Neckarsteinach_Mittelburg3.JPG|[[Neckarsteinach]]: ''Mittelburg''
File:Neckarsteinach_Hinterburg1.JPG|[[Neckarsteinach]]: ''Hinterburg''
File:Schadeck-wehrgang.jpg|[[Neckarsteinach]]: The ruins of ''Schwalbennest''
File:Codex Manesse Bligger von Steinach.jpg|The medieval feudal lord and poet (minnesinger) [[Bligger von Steinach]] (Portrait from the Codex Manesse) resided in Steinach (Neckarsteinach)
File:Neckartal.jpg|[[Bergfeste Dilsberg|Dilsberg]] with mountain fort
File:Burgturm Dilsberg.jpg|Tower and wall of Dilsberg near [[Neckarsteinach]]
File:Burg Hirschhorn.jpg|Hirschhorn with Hirschhorn Castle
File:Burg-Eberbach02.jpg|The ruins of [[Eberbach (Baden)|Eberbach]] Castle
File:Burg Zwingenberg 2009.jpg|[[Zwingenberg Castle]] (also called the ''Zwingenburg'') (Zwingenberg/Neckar)
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