| Image Coa: | DEU Rotenhain COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 50.6008°N 7.8825°W |
| Image Plan: | Rotenhain im Westerwaldkreis.png |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Westerwaldkreis |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Westerburg |
| Elevation: | 465 |
| Area: | 4.10 |
| Postal Code: | 56459 |
| Area Code: | 02661 |
| Licence: | WW |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 288 |
| Website: | www.rotenhain.de |
| Mayor: | Thomas Paul Ziomek[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Rotenhain is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
Rotenhain lies 9 km southwest of Westerburg.
The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
Southwest of the community runs Bundesstraße 255, leading from Montabaur to Herborn. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Montabaur on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt). Rotenhain lies on the Oberwesterwaldbahn (railway) to Limburg and Au (Sieg). From there, the cities of Cologne, Koblenz, Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden may be reached directly. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.