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Encyclopedia > Birkenau (Odenwald)

Birkenau is a municipality in the Odenwald located in the South of Hessen in Germany. It is part of the district of Kreis Bergstraße (translated: mountain road) and is called "the village of sun dials". This lovely town is in the heart of the Odenwald "Oden's Forrest". The land is hilly, green and dotted with horse farms and forests. A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... The Odenwald is a mountain chain in southern Hessen, northern Bavaria and northern Baden-Württemberg. ... Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. ... Kreis Bergstraße (translated: mountain road) is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany. ...


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Coordinates: 49°34′N 8°42′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


 

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