The Moselle Hills (german: Moselberge) form a ridge, up to , on the left bank of the river

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

between

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and

Schweich Schweich is a town in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Moselle, approx. northeast of Trier. Schweich is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Schweich an der R ...

in the

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

counties of

Bernkastel-Wittlich Bernkastel-Wittlich (German: ''Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich'') is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Vulkaneifel, Cochem-Zell, Rhein-Hunsrück, Birkenfeld, Trier-Saarbur ...

and Trier-Saarburg. There are

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on the southern slopes of the wooded hills. They lie on the southern edge of the

Eifel The Eifel (; lb, Äifel, ) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Community of ...

region.

Geography

Location

The Moselle Hills lie between the village

in the northeast and the town of

in the southwest and run past the wine village of

Piesport Piesport is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies sur ...

northwest along the Moselle, the aforementioned settlements all lying on the river itself.

Natural regional grouping

From a natural regional perspective, the Moselle Hills belong to the major unit group, the Moselle Valley (''Moseltal'', No. 25) and in the major unit of Middle Moselle Valley (''Mittleres Moseltal'', No. 250). The natural regional sub-unit of the Moselle Hills (''Moselberge'', 250.2) are separated from the

Moselle Eifel The Moselle Eifel (german: Moseleifel) forms the southeastern strip of the East Eifel to the left of the Moselle from the city of Trier downstream as far as Moselkern; in the southeast it does not reach as far as the Moselle Valley. It lies exclu ...

major unit (270) (also part of the

) to the northwest by the major unit of the Wittlich Basin (''Wittlicher Senke'', 251).

Hills

The hills and high points of the Moselle Hills – sorted by their height in

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s (m) above sea level (NHN) include the: * Schimmelsberg aufm Hüttenberg (434.1 m), around 1.7 km north of

in the parish of

Minheim Minheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies on th ...

* Monzeler Hüttenkopf (423.4 m, west of Monzel) * Mehringer Berg (418.7 m, northwest of

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) * Hansenberg (401.8 m), east of Rivenich * Thomasberg (382.9 m), south of Klausen * Rothenberg (365.3 m), east of Wengerohr * ''Stöppelberg'' (), northeast of Klausen * ''Rudemberg'' (), west of

Klüsserath Klüsserath is a commune of the Verbandsgemeinde Schweich in the district Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, on the river Moselle between Bernkastel-Kues and Trier. Geography Location Located in a wide, natural amphitheater of th ...

* ''(Noviander) Hüttenkopf'' ({{Höhe, 273.3), west of Noviand * Geisberg (262 m), south of Mülheim on Moselle

Rivers

The southern part of the Moselle Hills is bisected in a north-south direction by a stretch of the Salm, and the Lieser cuts through its northern part from northwest to southeast. Both rivers are tributaries of the Moselle.

References

Hill ranges of Germany Central Uplands Landscapes of Rhineland-Palatinate