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ODENWALD

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ODENWALD  , a wooded mountainous region of See also:

Germany, almost entirely in the See also:grand duchy of See also:Hesse, with small portions in See also:Bavaria and See also:Baden . It stretches between the See also:Neckar and the See also:Main, and is some 50 M. See also:long by 20 to 30 broad . Its highest points are the Katzenbuckel (2057 ft.), the Neunkircher Hohe (1985 ft.) and the Krahberg (1965 ft.) . The wooded heights overlooking the Bergstrasse are studded with castles and See also:medieval ruins, some of which are associated with some of the most memorable adventures of See also:German tradition . Among them are Rodenstein, the reputed See also:home of the See also:wild See also:huntsman, and near Grasellenbach, the spot where Siegfried of the See also:Nibelungenlied is said to have been slain . - See F . Montanus, Der Odenwald (See also:Mainz, 1884) ; T . Lorentzen, Der Odenwald in Wort and Bild (See also:Stuttgart, 1904) ; G . See also:Volk, Der Odenwald and See also:seine Nachbargebiete (Stuttgart, 190o), and Windhaus, Fi hrer durch den Odenwald (See also:Darmstadt, 1903) .

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