| Steinen | |
| Image Coa: | DEU Steinen (Westerwald) COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 50.5736°N 7.8069°W |
| Image Plan: | Steinen im Westerwaldkreis.png |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Westerwaldkreis |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Selters (Westerwald) |
| Elevation: | 410 |
| Area: | 4.20 |
| Postal Code: | 56244 |
| Area Code: | 02626 |
| Licence: | WW |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 43 075 |
| Website: | www.steinen-westerwald.de |
| Mayor: | Mario Reifenberg[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Steinen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Steinen lies 5 km from Herschbach and 7 km from Selters on the Westerwald Lake Plateau. In the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden - unser Dorf hat Zukunft (“Our village should be lovelier – our village has a future”), Steinen was distinguished several times. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.
The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (Ortsbürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.
The community lies right on Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Mogendorf on the A 3 (Cologne - Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.