rhein-neckar

Rhein-Neckar is a district (Kreis) in the north-west of Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bergstrae, Odenwaldkreis, Neckar-Odenwald, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, district-free Speyer, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, and district-free Mannheim and Heidelberg.

History

The district was created in 1973 by merging the previous districts Heidelberg, Mannheim and a big part of Sinsheim.

Geography

It's named after the two main rivers which flow through the district, Rhine and Neckar. The highest elevation is the Stiefelhhe near Heiligkreuzsteinach with 583 m in the Odenwald mountains, the lowest elevation with 92 m is near Ilvesheim in the Neckar valley.

Coat of arms

| The wavy line in the left of the coat of arms represent the two rivers Rhine and Neckar. The lion in the right side is the symbol of Palatinate, as the area belonged to that area historically.

Towns and municipalities

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Eberbach Eppelheim Hemsbach Hockenheim Ladenburg Leimen Neckarbischofsheim Neckargemnd Rauenberg Schwetzingen Schnau Schriesheim Sinsheim Waibstadt Walldorf Weinheim Wiesloch	\| Altluheim Angelbachtal Bammental Brhl Dielheim Dossenheim Edingen-Neckarhausen Epfenbach Eschelbronn Gaiberg Heddesbach Heddesheim Heiligkreuzsteinach Helmstadt-Bargen Hirschberg Ilvesheim Ketsch Laudenbach Lobbach	\| Malsch Mauer Meckesheim Mhlhausen Neidenstein Neuluheim Nuloch Oftersheim Plankstadt Reichartshausen Reilingen Sandhausen St. Leon-Rot Schnbrunn Spechbach Wiesenbach Wilhelmsfeld Zuzenhausen

External links

Official website (German)

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