Location The community lies along the length of the Grundelbach valley in the
Odenwald. The nearest big town is
Weinheim, and the way there also marks the division between the Odenwald and the
Hessisches Ried (part of the Upper Rhine valley), as well as the boundary between Hesse and
Baden-Württemberg. Through the community’s namesake Gorxheim valley – it is called the
Gorxheimertal in
German – flows the Grundelbach. At the eastern point of the constituent community of Trösel rise the two mountains Waldskopf and Daumberg, which also mark the Gorxheim valley’s eastern limit.
Neighbouring communities Gorxheimertal borders in the north on the community of
Birkenau, in the east on the community of
Abtsteinach, in the southeast on the community of
Heiligkreuzsteinach and in the south and west on the town of Weinheim (both in the
Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in
Baden-Württemberg).
Constituent communities The community’s
Ortsteile are Gorxheim, Unter-Flockenbach and Trösel. ==History==