The Spessart is a low mountain range in northwestern Bavaria

Bavaria

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 and southern Hesse

Hesse

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, Germany

Germany

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. It is bordered on three sides by the Main River

Main river

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. The two most important towns located at the foot of the Spessart are Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg is a city in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.Aschaffenburg is known as the Tor zum Spessart or "gate to the Spessart"...

 and Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

.

Although the Spessart forms a roughly circular mountain range, its main ridge extends from the southwest to the northeast. It is continued by the Odenwald

Odenwald

The Odenwald is a low mountain range in Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany.- Location :The Odenwald lies between the Upper Rhine Rift Valley with the Bergstraße and the Hessisches Ried in the west, the Main and the Bauland in the east, the Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin – a subbasin of...

 in the southwest and by the Rhön in the northeast.

Its highest peak is the Geiersberg

Geiersberg (Spessart)

Geiersberg is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany....

(586 m or 1,923 ft.), peaking more than 400 m (1,300 ft.) above the Main valley. Apart from the edges, the region is sparsely populated. Two nature parks called Bavarian Spessart and Hessian Spessart occupy large portions of the hills.