diff --git a/webknossos/Changelog.md b/webknossos/Changelog.md
index ab82a80fb..1b9ddca10 100644
--- a/webknossos/Changelog.md
+++ b/webknossos/Changelog.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ For upgrade instructions, please check the respective _Breaking Changes_ section
 
 ### Added
 - Added an implementation of padded_with_margins for NDBoundingBox class. [#1120](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos-libs/pull/1120)
+- Added a new method add_nx_graphs to skeleton.py which supports to add nx.Graphs to the Skeleton object. [#1130](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos-libs/pull/1130)
 
 ### Changed
 - Removed additional logging messages during image conversion. [#1124](https://github.com/scalableminds/webknossos-libs/pull/1124)
diff --git a/webknossos/testdata/nmls/generate_nml_snapshot.nml b/webknossos/testdata/nmls/generate_nml_snapshot.nml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..21503abf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webknossos/testdata/nmls/generate_nml_snapshot.nml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<things>
+  <parameters>
+    <experiment name="MyDataset" />
+    <scale x="1" y="1" z="1" />
+    <zoomLevel zoom="0.4" />
+  </parameters>
+  <thing color.a="1.0" color.b="0.2060804781374328" color.g="0.7841773537104477" color.r="0.8354155362332778" groupId="1" id="1" name="tree1">
+    <nodes>
+      <node id="1" radius="1.0" x="0" y="1" z="2" />
+      <node id="2" radius="1.0" x="3" y="1" z="2" />
+    </nodes>
+    <edges>
+      <edge source="1" target="2" />
+    </edges>
+  </thing>
+  <thing color.a="1.0" color.b="0.4725954567221092" color.g="0.8764923182291839" color.r="0.27071931551375283" groupId="2" id="2" name="tree2">
+    <nodes>
+      <node id="3" radius="1.0" x="0" y="1" z="2" />
+      <node id="4" radius="1.0" x="3" y="1" z="2" />
+      <node id="5" radius="1.0" x="3" y="3" z="3" />
+    </nodes>
+    <edges>
+      <edge source="3" target="4" />
+    </edges>
+  </thing>
+  <branchpoints />
+  <comments>
+    <comment content="node 1 nx" node="1" />
+    <comment content="node 2 nx" node="2" />
+    <comment content="node 1 nx" node="3" />
+    <comment content="node 2 nx" node="4" />
+    <comment content="node 3 nx" node="5" />
+  </comments>
+  <groups>
+    <group id="1" name="first_group" />
+    <group id="2" name="second_group" />
+  </groups>
+</things>
diff --git a/webknossos/tests/test_skeleton.py b/webknossos/tests/test_skeleton.py
index 0fe3ce437..2e5d13d14 100644
--- a/webknossos/tests/test_skeleton.py
+++ b/webknossos/tests/test_skeleton.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List, Optional
 
+import networkx as nx
 import pytest
 
 import webknossos as wk
@@ -51,6 +52,15 @@ def create_dummy_skeleton() -> wk.Skeleton:
     return nml
 
 
+def create_dummy_nx_graph() -> nx.Graph:
+    nx_graph = nx.Graph()
+    nx_graph.add_node(1, position=(0, 1, 2), comment="node 1 nx")
+    nx_graph.add_node(2, position=(3, 1, 2), comment="node 2 nx")
+    nx_graph.add_edge(1, 2)
+
+    return nx_graph
+
+
 def test_doc_example() -> None:
     from webknossos import Annotation
 
@@ -108,6 +118,90 @@ def test_skeleton_creation() -> None:
     assert grand_children[0].group == groups[0]
 
 
+def test_add_nx_graph() -> None:
+    skeleton = create_dummy_skeleton()
+    node_count = skeleton.get_total_node_count()
+    tree_count = len(list(skeleton.flattened_trees()))
+    group_count = len(list(skeleton.flattened_groups()))
+    max_node_id = skeleton.get_max_node_id()
+
+    nx_graph = create_dummy_nx_graph()
+    skeleton.add_nx_graphs(
+        {"first_group": [nx_graph, nx_graph], "second_group": [nx_graph]}
+    )
+
+    # check number of groups, nodes and trees
+    assert len(list(skeleton.flattened_groups())) == group_count + 2
+    assert skeleton.get_total_node_count() == node_count + 6
+    assert len(list(skeleton.flattened_trees())) == tree_count + 3
+
+    # check group names
+    for group in skeleton.flattened_groups():
+        assert group.name in [
+            "first_group",
+            "second_group",
+            "Example Group",
+            "Nested Group",
+        ]
+
+    # check node attributes
+    max_node_id = skeleton.get_max_node_id()
+    assert skeleton.get_node_by_id(max_node_id).comment == "node 2 nx"
+    assert skeleton.get_node_by_id(max_node_id).position == (3, 1, 2)
+    assert skeleton.get_node_by_id(max_node_id - 1).comment == "node 1 nx"
+    assert skeleton.get_node_by_id(max_node_id - 1).position == (0, 1, 2)
+
+    # check if edge was added
+    for edge in skeleton.get_tree_by_id(max_node_id - 2).edges:
+        assert (edge[0].id, edge[1].id) == (max_node_id - 1, max_node_id)
+
+
+def test_nml_generation(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    OLD_NML_PATH = TESTDATA_DIR / "nmls" / "generate_nml_snapshot.nml"
+
+    tree1 = create_dummy_nx_graph()
+    tree2 = create_dummy_nx_graph()
+    tree2.add_node(3, position=(3, 3, 3), comment="node 3 nx")
+
+    tree_dict = {"first_group": [tree1], "second_group": [tree2]}
+
+    # old_nml was generated with the old wknml library as follows:
+    # params_wknml = {"name": "MyDataset", "scale": (1, 1, 1), "zoomLevel": 0.4}
+    # old_nml = generate_nml(tree_dict=tree_dict, parameters=params_wknml)
+    # with open(tmp_path / "annotation_old.nml", "wb") as f:
+    #     write_nml(f, old_nml)
+
+    tree_dict = {"first_group": [tree1], "second_group": [tree2]}
+
+    annotation = wk.Annotation(
+        name="MyAnnotation",
+        dataset_name="MyDataset",
+        voxel_size=(1, 1, 1),
+        zoom_level=0.4,
+    )
+
+    annotation.skeleton.add_nx_graphs(tree_dict)
+
+    annotation.save(tmp_path / "annotation_new.nml")
+
+    old_skeleton = wk.Skeleton.load(OLD_NML_PATH)
+    new_skeleton = wk.Skeleton.load(tmp_path / "annotation_new.nml")
+
+    for old_group, new_group in zip(
+        old_skeleton.flattened_groups(), new_skeleton.flattened_groups()
+    ):
+        assert old_group.name == new_group.name
+        for old_child, new_child in zip(old_group.children, new_group.children):
+            if isinstance(old_child, wk.Tree) and isinstance(new_child, wk.Tree):
+                for old_node, new_node in zip(old_child.nodes, new_child.nodes):
+                    assert old_node.comment == new_node.comment
+                    assert old_node.position == new_node.position
+                    assert old_node.radius == new_node.radius
+                for old_edge, new_edge in zip(old_child.edges, new_child.edges):
+                    assert old_edge[0].position == new_edge[0].position
+                    assert old_edge[1].position == new_edge[1].position
+
+
 def diff_lines(lines_a: List[str], lines_b: List[str]) -> List[str]:
     diff = list(
         difflib.unified_diff(
diff --git a/webknossos/webknossos/skeleton/skeleton.py b/webknossos/webknossos/skeleton/skeleton.py
index ddde84f78..c4e1c4336 100644
--- a/webknossos/webknossos/skeleton/skeleton.py
+++ b/webknossos/webknossos/skeleton/skeleton.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import itertools
 from os import PathLike
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Iterator, Optional, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import attr
+import networkx as nx
 
 from ..utils import warn_deprecated
 from .group import Group
@@ -104,6 +105,45 @@ def save(self, out_path: Union[str, PathLike]) -> None:
         annotation = Annotation(name=out_path.stem, skeleton=self, time=None)
         annotation.save(out_path)
 
+    def add_nx_graphs(
+        self, tree_dict: Union[List[nx.Graph], Dict[str, List[nx.Graph]]]
+    ) -> None:
+        """
+        A utility to add nx graphs [NetworkX graph object](https://networkx.org/) to a wk skeleton object. Accepts both a simple list of multiple skeletons/trees or a dictionary grouping skeleton inputs.
+
+        Arguments:
+        tree_dict (Union[List[nx.Graph], Dict[str, List[nx.Graph]]]): A list of wK tree-like structures as NetworkX graphs or a dictionary of group names and same lists of NetworkX tree objects.
+        """
+
+        if not isinstance(tree_dict, dict):
+            tree_dict = {"main_group": tree_dict}
+
+        for group_name, trees in tree_dict.items():
+            group = self.add_group(group_name)
+            for tree in trees:
+                tree_name = tree.graph.get("name", f"tree_{len(list(group.trees))}")
+                wk_tree = group.add_tree(tree_name)
+                wk_tree.color = tree.graph.get("color", None)
+                id_node_dict = {}
+                for id_with_node in tree.nodes(data=True):
+                    old_id, node = id_with_node
+                    node = wk_tree.add_node(
+                        position=node.get("position"),
+                        comment=node.get("comment", None),
+                        radius=node.get("radius", 1.0),
+                        rotation=node.get("rotation", None),
+                        inVp=node.get("inVp", None),
+                        inMag=node.get("inMag", None),
+                        bitDepth=node.get("bitDepth", None),
+                        interpolation=node.get("interpolation", None),
+                        time=node.get("time", None),
+                        is_branchpoint=node.get("is_branchpoint", False),
+                        branchpoint_time=node.get("branchpoint_time", None),
+                    )
+                    id_node_dict[old_id] = node
+                for edge in tree.edges():
+                    wk_tree.add_edge(id_node_dict[edge[0]], id_node_dict[edge[1]])
+
     @staticmethod
     def from_path(file_path: Union[PathLike, str]) -> "Skeleton":
         """Deprecated. Use Skeleton.load instead."""