 It is furthermore one of the municipalities belonging, like the ones in the surrounding districts, to the Rhine Neckar Area.It lies mainly on the Neckar's north bank along the B 37 and the "Neckartalbahn" (railway) and is Hesse's and the Bergstraße district's southernmost town, 15 km east of Heidelberg.Along the former railway spur line to Schönau, a further population centre was built to the northwest, that is to say, behind the Burgberg (“Castle Mountain”).