Kraichtal is a town in the north-eastern part of the Karlsruhe district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Kraichtal is a town embedded in western Kraichgau, a hilly landscape between the Black Forest, Odenwald forest and the Neckar river.

The following towns neighbour Kraichtal: Eppingen and Zaisenhausen, Oberderdingen, Bretten, Bruchsal, Ubstadt-Weiher and Oestringen.

Kraichtal consists of nine districts, each district (Stadtteil) representing one of the nine municipalities which merged to become Kraichtal in 1971: Count Eberstein Castle lies in Gochsheim, in the north east of Kraichtal.

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