This list of the mountains and hills in North Rhine-Westphalia shows a selection of high or well-known mountains and hills in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (in order of height).
Highest points of the North Rhine-Westphalian provinces The following table gives the highest hill or point in the five provinces (Regierungsbezirke) of North Rhine-Westphalia.
By clicking on the word "List" in the "Lists" column you will be taken to a list of other hills in the respective region or hill range (some of which lie partly outside of North Rhine-Westphalia). The table is listed in order of height, but can be sorted by other columns by clicking on the symbol at the head. Highestsummit Height(m) Region/range Lists Province Langenberg 843.2 Rothaar List Arnsberg Weißer Stein 693 Eifel (Zitterwald) List Cologne Köterberg 495.8 Weser Uplands List Detmold* Brodtberg 378.9 Bergisches Land --- Düsseldorf Westerbecker Berg 236 Teutoburg Forest List Münster
The highest point in the Province of Detmold is on the flank of the Totenkopf in the Sauerland near Bad Wünnenberg. The provincial boundary runs up to a height of .
Highest points of the North Rhine-Westphalian regions
In the following table are the highest mountains and hills in the various North Rhine-Westphalian landscapes (regions or hill ranges).
In the "Landscape" column, major hill ranges are shown in bold and landscape units that have no significant local high point or are basins, whose (sometimes island-like) high points have some isolation, are shown in italics. Clicking "List" in the rows of the "List" column links to other hills or mountains in that landscape – some of which are outside of North Rhine-Westphalia. The table is arranged by height, but may be sorted by other criteria by clicking the symbol of the desired column.
Mountain / hill Height(m) Landscape Lists District(s) (or states)free towns Langenberg 843.2 Rothaar List Hochsauerland(North Rhine-Westphalia)Waldeck-FrankenbergHesse Weißer Stein 693 Eifel(Zitterwald) ListList Euskirchen Himberg 688.5 Saalhauser Berge List Hochsauerland,Olpe Borberg 670.2 Brilon Heights List Hochsauerland NordhelleEbbegebirge 663.3 Ebbegebirge List Märkischer Kreis Steling 658.3 Rur EifelPart of the Eifel ---List Städteregion Aachen HomertLennegebirge 656.1 Lennegebirge List Hochsauerland Nenkersberg 610.3 Westerwald List Siegen-Wittgenstein Michelsberg 586.1 Ahr HillsPart of the Eifel ListList Euskirchen Langschoß 585.2 Hürtgen ForestPart of the Eifel --- List Städteregion Aachen unnamed summit 581.5 Arnsberg Forest List Soest unnamed summit 527.8 KermeterPart of the Eifel ListList Euskirchen HomertOberbergischer Kreis 519.0 Bergisches Land --- Oberbergischer Kreis Köterberg 495.8 Weser Uplands List Kreis Lippe(North Rhine-Westphalia), Kreis Höxter(North Rhine-Westphalia)Holzminden(Lower Saxony) Preußischer Velmerstot 468 Eggegebirge List Kreis Paderborn Großer Ölberg 460.1 Siebengebirge List Rhein-Sieg Karpkeberg 456.2 Sintfeld List Hochsauerland Barnacken 446.1 Teutoburg Forest List Lippe Wengeberg 441.0 Ruhrgebiet --- Ennepe-Ruhr Spitze Warte 390.6 Haarstrang --- Soest Desenberg 343.2 Warburg Börde --- Höxter (Warburg) Heidbrink 319.6 Wiehen Hills List Minden-Lübbecke Sophienhöhe(Kippe am Tagebau Hambach) 301.8 Jülich-Zülpich Börde --- Düren Burggrafenberg 282.8 Burgholz State Forest List Solingen (kreisfreie Stadt)Wuppertal (independent city) Auf dem Heil 273.8 Ardey Hills List Ennepe-Ruhr Glessener Höhe(spoil tip of a former open-cast mine) 209 Ville List Rhein-Erft WesterbergBaumberge(Westerather Berg) 187.6 Baumberge List Coesfeld Kollwesshöh 181.4 Stemweder Berg List Minden-Lübbecke Mackenberg 174.4 Beckum Hills List Warendorf Stimberg 153.8 Haard List Recklinghausen Waldbeerenberg 145.9 Hohe Mark List Recklinghausen Melchenberg 133.8 Reken Hills List Coesfeld, Borken Fischberg 133.3 Borkenberge List Recklinghausen Tannenbültenberg 107.4 Die Berge List Borken
List of mountains and hills
Name, Height in metres above NN, Location (district/landscape); three "???" means unknown or not researched; please complete!
Langenberg (843.2 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Kahler Asten (841.9 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Clemensberg (839.2 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Hopperkopf (832.3 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Hunau (817.6 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Ziegenhelle (815.5 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Wallershöhe (812 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Bremberg (809 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Hoher Eimberg (806.1 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district Hoppernkopf (805.0 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Hillekopf (804.9 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Heikersköpfchen (792.4 m), Hochsauerland district Reetsberg (792.2 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Öhrenstein (792.1 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Nordhelle (Rothaar) (between 790 and 799 m), Mark district, Rothaar Schlossberg (790.0 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Auf dem Sternrodt (789.4 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Sange (788.1 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Krutenberg (785.0 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Junge Grimme (782 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Dreiskopf (781 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district Kahle Pön (775.3 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Albrechtsberg (768 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Rimberg (Winterberg) (764.5 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Bollerberg (757 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Härdler (756 m), Olpe district, Rothaar Poppenberg (746 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Bastenberg (744.8 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Kalied (744.7 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Zwistberg (744 m), Hochsauerland district and Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Hohe Hessel (743 m), Olpe district, Rothaar Auf'm Knoll (738 m), North Rhine-Westphalia/Hesse, Hochsauerland district and Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Rothaar Großer Kopf (740 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Herrloh (733 m), Hochsauerland district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rothaar Stüppel (732 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Sperrenberg (725 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Istenberg (721 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Heidkopf (Olsberg) (715.1 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Saukopf (715 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Rimberg (Schmallenberg) (713 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Kahlenberg (712 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Kahleberg (711 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Heidkopf (Hallenberg) (703.8 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Olsberg (703.2 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Beieck (695 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Kompass (Rothaar) (693.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Weißer Stein (692 m / 689 m on the North Rhine-Westphalian side), Euskirchen district, Zitter Forest/North Eifel Ebschloh (686.3 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Westerberg (684.6 m), Olpe district, Rothaar Riemen (678 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Jagdberg (Netphen) (675.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Oberste Henn (675.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Milfen (670 m), ??? district, Rothaar Milsenberg (670 m), Olpe district, Rothaar Borberg (669 m), Hochsauerland district, Briloner Höhen Nordhelle (Ebbegebirge) (663.3 m), Mark district, Ebbegebirge Kleine Bamicke (659.8 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Steling (658 m), Aachen district, Rur Eifel Wilzenberg (658), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Homert (1) (656 m), Hochsauerland district, Lenne Uplands Hoher Wald (655 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Giller (653.5 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Schurenstein (650 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Ederkopf (649 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Schomberg (648 m), Hochsauerland district, Lenne Uplands Rehberg (646 m), Olpe district, Ebbegebirge Aukopf (644.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Stein (644 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Rammelsberg (), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Jagdberg (Erndtebrück) (634.5 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Homberg (630 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Röhrenspring (629 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Hölzenberg (626 m), ??? district, Rothaar Lahnkopf (624.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Bilstein (620 m), Hochsauerland district, Brilon Heights Kindelsberg (617.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Nenkersberg (610 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Westerwald Eisenberg (606 m), Hochsauerland district, Brilon Heights Kuhelle (603 m), Olpe district, Rothaar Rothenstein (600 m), Mark district, Ebbegebirge Iberg (596 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Die Burg, (591 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein, Rothaar / Westerwald Michelsberg (588 m), Euskirchen district, Ahr Hills, Eifel Hohe Bracht (587.9 m), Olpe district Unnamed peak (581.5 m), near Meschede-Eversbergs, Soest district, Arnsberg Forest Wilde Wiese (580 m), Hochsauerland district, Rothaar Kalteiche (579.3 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein, Rothaar Weiße Frau (572 m), Hochsauerland district, Brilon Heights Donnerhain (560 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Unnamed peak (559.5 m), near Brilon-Esshofs, ??? district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Unnamed peak near the Meschede TV tower (557.4 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Warsteiner Kopf (556.9 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Der Griesing (555 m), Mark district, Ebbegebirge Gemeinheitskopf (551.9 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Tiefenrother Höhe (551 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Unnamed peak (550.8 m), near Meschede and the "B 55", Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Niekopf (550.4 m), Soest district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Ebberg (546.9 m), ??? district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Balve Forest (545.9 m), Mark district, Rothaar Ensterknick (543.2 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Nuttlar Heights (Nuttlarer Höhe) (542.2 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Stimm Stamm (541.1 m), Passhöhe, Soest district and Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Homert (2) (539 m), Mark district, Ebbegebirge Kahler Kopf (539 m), Mark district, Ebbegebirge Knippberg (537 m), ??? district, Ahr Hills, Eifel Heimberg (536 m), Hochsauerland district, Briloner Höhen Sengenberg (530.4 m), Soest district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Bornstein (529 m), Hochsauerland district, Sauerland Walkersdorfer Berg (526 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar Wildbretshügel (525 m), Euskirchen district/Düren district, Rur Eifel/Kermeter Wehberg (525 m), Soest district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Liverhagen (522.6 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Moosberg (522.0 m), ??? district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Voßstein (521.1 m; nordöstlicher Kopf), ??? district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Hornscheid (519.7 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Voßstein (519.7 m; mittlerer Kopf), ??? district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Homert (3) (519 m), Upper Berg district, Bergisches Land Silberkuhle (515 m), Upper Berg district, Bergisches Land Greverhagen (514.6 m), Hochsauerland district, Arnsberg Forest Nature Park Kopnück (514 m), Euskirchen district, Ahr Hills, Eifel Bautenberg (512.9 m), Siegen-Wittgenstein district, Rothaar