Eberbach

Eberbach is a metropolis in Germany, in northern Baden Wurttemberg, located 33 km east of Heidelberg. It belongs to the Rhein Neckar Kreis. Its sister cities are Ephrata, United States and Thonon les Bains, France. Eberbach is a former Imperial Free City, based quickly after 1227 when the fortress turned into first stated by way of German King Henry VII of the House of Hohenstaufen. After his pledge to the Counts Palatine in 1330, the antique Free City belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate. In 1803 it handed to the Principality of Leiningen and for the reason that 1806 it has belonged to Baden. Until 1924 it becomes the seat of the authority office.

In 1977 the city celebrated its 750 year jubilee. The historic antique town, that is a pedestrian precinct, with its 4 well maintained towers, many well kept wood body homes and a few metropolis wall remnants, is a magnet for vacationers. Likewise, the Eberbach fort ruins, which stand above the town on one of the mountains within the Odenwald range that surrounds the metropolis, are worth of sightseeing as part of the string of castles alongside the river Neckar.