The Montabaur Heights (german: Montabaurer Höhe) are a 10 to 15 kilometre long, mostly wooded hill ridge in the southwestern Westerwald in Germany and lies mainly within the county of

Westerwaldkreis The Westerwaldkreis ("District of Westerwald") is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Altenkirchen, Lahn-Dill, Limburg-Weilburg, Rhein-Lahn, the district-free ...

. The ridge is geographically classified as sub-

natural region A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit. Usually, it is a region which is distinguished by its common natural features of geography, geology, and climate. From the ecology, ecological point of view, the naturally occurring fl ...

324.1 of the Lower Westerwald (major unit 324) and has its highest hill, the Alarmstange, whose summit rises six kilometres west of the town of Montabaur and about 12 km northeast of

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

Literature

* Mischa Ferdinand, Ursula Braun: ''Die Farnflora der Montabaurer Höhe'', Zweckverb. Naturpark Nassau, 1997 {{Authority control Westerwaldkreis Regions of the Westerwald Central Uplands