EBERBACH, a town of Germany, in the Land of Baden, romantically situated on the Neckar, at the foot of the Katzen buckel, 19 m. E. of Heidelberg by the railway to Wiirzburg. Pop. (1925) 6,973. It manufactures barrel-hoops, chemicals and cigars, and carries on by water an active trade in timber and wine. Eberbach was founded in 1227 by the German king Henry VII., who acquired the castle (now ruined) from the bishop of Worms.