It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Adjacent municipalities are, starting in the north and moving clockwise, Wiesenbach, Meckesheim, Wiesloch, Leimen and Bammental.

Today it hosts both an evangelical and a Roman Catholic church community.

The remains, a jaw, were discovered in 1907 in the local sand quarry by Daniel Hartmann, a worker there.

However, the sandpit is now a nature park, and the sedimentary layers corresponding to those of the original find can be viewed on a 25 meter high section.