The Lemberg is a hill on the river
Nahe between the villages of
Niederhausen (Nahe)
Niederhausen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdeshei ...
,
Oberhausen an der Nahe
Oberhausen an der Nahe is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of ...
and
Feilbingert
Feilbingert is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Kreuzna ...
. At 422 metres, it is the highest hill on the Nahe.
Linguistic researchers believe the derivation of the name Lemberg is ''Lindberg'' ("lime hill") and local poets call it the "King of the Nahegau" (''König des Nahegaus'').
The
magma
Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also been discovered on other terrestrial planets and some natural sa ...
tic rock,
porphyry, which is found here points to its
volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
origin.
References
Bad Kreuznach (district)
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
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