Hessian Uplands Attractions Hessisches Bergland

The Hessian Uplands - once the territory of a Germanic tribe, the Chatti - have the most varied topography in the whole of the German Central Uplands. They extend from the river Werra in the east to the Rhine between Mainz and Koblenz in the west and from Karlshafen on the Weser in the north to the Neckar at Heidelberg in the south. They are broken up into numerous valley areas and small ranges of hills, which reach their greatest height in the Rhön, with the Gross Wasserkuppe (950 m/3,120ft). To the west are the Westerwald and the Taunus, in the Rhenish Uplands. Between the Main, the Rhine plain and the Neckar is the Odenwald, the southern part of which lies in Baden-Württemberg. To the east is the Hessian depression, which extends from the Main between Frankfurt and Hanau by way of the fertile Wetterau (between the Taunus and the Vogelsberg) and the Lahn valley between Giessen and Marburg to the rivers Schwalm and Fulda (continuing in the Weser valley), and the Hessian Uplands proper.