The Aremberg is, at , the highest mountain in the
Ahr Hills (german: Ahrgebirge) or Ahr Eifel (''Ahreifel''). It lies in the district of
Ahrweiler
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the ...
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Rhineland-Palatinate (
Germany).
Geographic location
This former
Tertiary volcano rises in the northwestern part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, around east of its border with
North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the volcanic region of the
High Eifel. On its southwestern slopes lies the village of
Aremberg and, at its southeastern foot, the village of
Antweiler. The
basalt cone is surrounded by the small nature reserve of
Aremberg.
A section of the middle reaches of the
River Ahr flows past the Aremberg to the east; to the north an Ahr tributary, the
Eichenbach, flows around the mountain.
Aremberg Castle
On the summit are a few ruins belonging to
Aremberg Castle, once a mighty fortress, below and north of the mountaintop runs a section of
Roman road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
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Nürburgring Nordschleife
A section of the
Nürburgring
The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Formula One, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around t ...
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Nordschleife racing track, from which the Aremberg can be seen, is named after the mountain.
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Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountains and hills of the Eifel
Mountains under 1000 metres
Volcanoes of Germany