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 ridge is geographically classified as sub- natural region 324.1 of the

Lower Westerwald The Lower Westerwald (german: Niederwesterwald) is a region, over 1,300 km2 in area, in the west of the German hill range, the Westerwald, in the north of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and, for small elements, in the south of the state of ...

(major unit 324) and has its highest hill, the

Alarmstange The Alarmstange, at , is the highest point in the Montabaur Heights, a hill ride on the southwestern edge of the Westerwald. It lies near Horressen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Together with the ...

, 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