This list of mountains and hills of the Westerwald contains a selection of the mountains, hills and high points of the Westerwald range which lies in the German states of Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. The Westerwald is, in turn, part of the Rhenish Massif and includes some or all of the nature parks of Bergisches Land, Nassau, Rhine-Westerwald and Siebengebirge.
See also these lists:
Mountains and hills of the Rhenish Massif / Mountains and hills of Hesse / Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia / Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
The table is arranged in order of height in metres (m) above Normalhöhennull (NHN; unless otherwise stated). By clicking on the symbols at the head of each column, it can be resorted . In the column "Mountain or hill", alternative names are given in brackets, italics and small lettering. In this column, where there are two or more mountains or hills with the same name they are distinguished by their location in brackets and small lettering.
The abbreviations used in the table are explained below.
Mountain or hill | Height (m) | Natural region(s) or nature park | Location (in/near) | County or counties (see abbreviations below) | State (see abbreviations below) | Comment/s | Image | |
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657.3 | Highest mountain in the Westerwald; S: Nister; Ex-Viewing tower; Inn; NSG Fuchskaute (0.4 km²; 1984) | |||||||
654.4 | Emmerzhausen-Stegskopf | S | ||||||
654.2 | Ski piste, transmission tower and wind farm | |||||||
651.4 | Wind farm | |||||||
649.7 | ||||||||
Höllberg (Höllkopf) | 642.8 | |||||||
637.7 | ||||||||
635.3 | S Breitenbach | |||||||
621.25 | ||||||||
615.0 | Near: NSG Rückerscheid mit Aubach (0.78 km²; 1994) NSG Bermershube bei Heisterberg (0.44 km²; 1984) | |||||||
Bartenstein (Barstein) | 614 | NSG Viehweide am Barstein (0.2 km²; 1984) | ||||||
613.0 | ||||||||
612.6 | Rennerod Training Area near: Breitenbach Viaduct, NSG Breitenbach Viaduct (0.49 km²; 1988) and Krombach Viaduct mit NSG Krombach Viaduct (0.43 km²; 1981) | |||||||
611.7 | ||||||||
610.1 | ND Ketzerstein | |||||||
610.3 | ||||||||
605.4 | S | |||||||
604.5 | ||||||||
602.3 | ||||||||
594.0 | NSG Wacholderheide Westernohe (0.13 km²; 1967) | |||||||
586.9 | ||||||||
571.9 | ||||||||
570 | ND Großer Wolfstein and Kleiner Wolfstein ; On SSW flank: Bad Marienberg Wildlife Park with the Hedwigturm (AT) | |||||||
566.6 | ||||||||
559.7 | ||||||||
545.2 | ||||||||
540.2 | Viewing tower | |||||||
Kackenberger Stein (Neuhochsteiner Berg) | 525 | Hochstein (Hohenstein; basalt rock formation; ND) | ||||||
517.5 | ||||||||
517 | ||||||||
Hinstein (Hindstein) | 514.7 | ND Hinstein, NSG Am Hinstein bei Greifenstein (0.13 km²; 1986) | ||||||
513.1 | Viewing tower with transmitters | |||||||
509.8 | ||||||||
Mahlscheid (Malscheid) | 509.3 | |||||||
501.0 | ||||||||
498 | ||||||||
491.3 | Viewing tower | |||||||
483.1 | S | |||||||
478.5 | ||||||||
475.4 | near: basalt quarry mit ND Kranstein | |||||||
467.5 | ||||||||
443.5 | highest hill of the Esterau; Schaumburg Forest | |||||||
441.0 | Basalt quarry, near: NSG Siebengebirge (42.72 km²; 1922) | |||||||
Meerberg (Mehrberg, Düstemich) | 430.5 | Basalt (formerly:) | ||||||
427.0 | S Dernbach, | |||||||
426 | ||||||||
Malberg (Moschheim) | 422.0 | Lower Westerwald (Montabaurer Senke) | Ringwall, NSG Malberg (0.96 km²; 1961) | |||||
417.4 | basalt quarry | |||||||
411 | former circular rampart lost due to basalt quarrying; the hill lost 34 metres in height due to quarrying | |||||||
407.5 | ||||||||
397.9 | Ringwalls, Pilgrimage site, NSG Heidenhäuschen (1.1 km²; 1927) | |||||||
396 | Former basalt quarry | |||||||
393.5 | südlicher Westerwald | Oppidum, NSG Dornburg (0.53 km²; 1927) | ||||||
Hoher Schaden (Schaden) | 388.3 | S Mühlenbach | ||||||
388.2 | Birkenbeul, Beul, Heupelzen-Beul | Raiffeisen Tower (AT) | ||||||
386.4 | Former basalt quarry | |||||||
377 | ||||||||
366.4 | NSG Siebengebirge (42.72 km²; 1922) | |||||||
364.4 | Lower Westerwald (Altenkirchen Plateau) | S | ||||||
363 | ||||||||
360.7 | Basalt quarry | |||||||
Malberg (Mahlberg) (Hausen) | 360 | Malbergsee (Mahlbergsee) | ||||||
358.8 | NSG Siebengebirge (42.72 km²; 1922) | |||||||
353.6 | ||||||||
Pfahlenberg (Pfahlberg) | 346.2 | |||||||
Herrenlay (Herrenlei) | 320 | |||||||
313 | Lower Westerwald (Sayn-Wied-Hochfläche) | Former basalt quarry | ||||||
306.0 | ||||||||
Harmorgenberg (Hormorgenberg) | 297.0 | Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes (east slope) | ||||||
293 |
The abbreviations used in the table (in alphabetical order) mean:
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