Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a Landkreis (district) in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from east clockwise) Main-Tauber-Kreis
short section through Hesse. The Neckar is a major right tributary of the Rhine. Rising in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis near Schwenningen in the Schwenninger
inhabitants) Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (531,723 inhabitants, including Sinsheim, Walldorf and Weinheim) Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis (151,043 inhabitants) Hesse Kreis Bergstraße
(all in Bavaria), and the districts of Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohe and Neckar-Odenwald. Traces of human population in the area were found to go back as early
municipality lie in the Natural Park of the Neckar Valley and the Odenwald and in the Bergstraße-Odenwald Nature Park, at an altitude of between 250 and