This list of mountains and hills of Hesse contains a selection of the significant mountain and hills located in the German federal state of Hesse sorted in each case by their height in metres above sea level (Normalhöhennull or NHN).
Highest mountains in Hesse’s provinces The following table shows the highest mountain in each of the three Hessian provinces or Regierungsbezirke.
Clicking on the word "List" in the Lists column, takes you to a list of other mountains and hills in the selected region (some of which extend beyond the borders of Hesse). The table is sorted by height, but may be resorted by clicking on the symbol in the appropriate column header.
Highest mountain Height(m) Region Lists Province(Regierungsbezirk) Wasserkuppe 950.0 Rhön List Kassel Großer Feldberg 881.5 Taunus List Darmstadt Taufstein 773.0 Vogelsberg List Gießen
Highest mountains and hills in Hesse’s landscapes and natural regions The following table lists the highest mountains and hills of the various Hessian landscape and natural regions.
In the Landscape column the major Central Upland ranges and landscapes are listed in bold; the smaller, local subranges or basins (with prominent island-like hills) are listed in italics. Clicking on the word “List” in the Lists column, takes you to a list of other mountains and hills in the respective landscape or region. By clicking on MU in the column you will be taken to the article on the natural regional Major unit to which the landscape belongs.
The table is sorted by height but may be resorted by clicking on the symbols in the relevant column header.
Mountain / Hill Height(m) Landscape Lists MU District (county)/(or states) Wasserkuppe 950.0 Rhön List 354 Fulda Großer Feldberg 881.5 Taunus List 301 High Taunus Langenberg 843.2 Rothaar Mountains(Upland (Hesse)) List(List) 333333 Waldeck-Frankenberg(Hessen)Hochsauerland(North Rhine-Westphalia) Taufstein 773.0 Vogelsberg List 351 Vogelsberg Kasseler Kuppe 753.6 Hoher Meißner,Fulda-Werra Uplands List 357 Werra-Meißner Wüstegarten 675.3 Kellerwald List 344 Schwalm-EderWaldeck-Frankenberg Sackpfeife 673.5 Hessian Hinterland(Rothaar Mountains) ---(List) 333 Waldeck-FrankenbergMarburg-Biedenkopf Hirschberg 643.4 Söhre,Fulda-Werra Uplands(part of the Kaufungen Forest) List(List) 357357 Werra-Meißner Höllberg 642.8 Westerwald List 322 Lahn-Dill Bilstein 641.2 Kaufungen Forest,Fulda-Werra Uplands(except the Söhre) List(List) 357357 Werra-Meißner Eisenberg 635.5 Knüll List 356 Hersfeld-Rotenburg Hohes Gras 614.8 Habichtswald Uplands(or Hoher Habichtswald) ListList 342(342) Kassel (kreisfreie Stadt)Lkr. Kassel Angelburg 609.4 Gladenbach Uplands List 320 Lahn-Dill Neunkircher Höhe 605.0 Odenwald List 145 Darmstadt-Dieburg Großer Bärenberg 600.7 Hinterhabichtswald Kuppen List 342 Kassel Rimberg 591.8 Fulda-Haune Tableland List 355 Hersfeld-Rotenburg Eisberg 583.0 Stölzinger Hills List 357 Werra-Meißner Hoher Dörnberg 578.7 Dörnberg and Schreckenberge List 342 Kassel 569.0 Gobert List 483 Werra-Meißner Hermannskoppe 567.1 Spessart List 141 Main-Kinzig(Hessen)Main-Spessart(Bayern) Himmelsberg 563.7 Melsungen Uplands List 357 Werra-Meißner Schwengeberg 556.7 Langenberge List 342 Schwalm-Eder Monte Kali 530 Seulingswald List 357 Hersfeld-Rotenburg Fuldaer Wäldchen 529.2 Landrücken List 353 Fulda Isthaberg 523.1 Ostwaldecker Randsenken List 341 Kassel Melibokus 517.0 Western (Anterior) Odenwald List 145 Kreis Bergstraße 514.8 Ringgau List 483 Werra-Meißner Burgberg 499.9 Hoofer Pforte List 342 Kassel Dünsberg 497.7 Südl. Gladenbach Uplands List 320 Gießen Rimberg 497.1 Damshäuser Kuppen List 320 Marburg-Biedenkopf 492.3 Waldecken Forest List 340 Kassel Herzberg 478.2 Richelsdorf Hills List 357 Hersfeld-Rotenburg Hundsrück 477.5 Schlierbachswald List 357 Werra-Meißner Schweinskopf (Hinterland) 473 Damshäuser Kuppen List 320 Marburg-Biedenkopf Staufenberg 472.2 Reinhardswald List 370 Kassel Escheberg 448.9 Malsburg Forest List 342 Kassel 443.1 Burgwald List 345 Waldeck-Frankenberg Hammelsberg 415.6 Büdingen --- 143 Main-Kinzig Mardorfer Kuppe 406.8 Vorderer Vogelsberg List 349 Marburg-Biedenkopf Ortenberg 379.4 Lahnberge List 348 Marburg-Biedenkopf Vogelheerd 369.8 Marburg Ridge List 348 Marburg-Biedenkopf Amöneburg 363.0 Amöneburg Basin --- 347 Marburg-Biedenkopf
Mountains and hills across the whole of Hesse Name, Height, Location (district/county, landscape/region) Wasserkuppe (950.0 m), county of Fulda, Rhön; highest mountain in the Rhön and in Hesse Dammersfeldkuppe (927.9 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Heidelstein (925.7 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Eierhauckberg (909.9 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Abtsrodaer Kuppe (904.8 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Stirnberg (901.9 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Hohe Hölle (893.8 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Steinkopf (888 m), border Hesse/Bavarian, Rhön Himmeldunkberg (887.9 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Großer Feldberg (881.5 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus; highest mountain of South Hesse Mittelberg (880 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Pferdskopf (874.9 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Beilstein (864.6 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Schachen (857.0 m), Hessian/Bavarian border, Rhön Reesberg (851.2 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Rommerser Berg (850.2 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Ottilienstein (846.4 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Rabenstein (845.0 m), border Hesse/Bavarian, Rhön Langenberg (843.2 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland; highest mountain in North Hesse and Northwest Germany (outside of the Harz) Hegekopf (842.9 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland (842.7 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Ettelsberg (837.7 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Milseburg (835.2 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Mathesberg (831.8 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Schafstein (831.8 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Hopperkopf (832.3 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Kleiner Feldberg (825.2 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Ottersteine (821.3 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Eubeberg (820 m), county of Fulda, Rhön (816.5 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Feldberg (815.2 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Mühlenkopf (815 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Hoher Eimberg (806.1 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland (805.0 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland (800.6 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Kesselstein (800 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Mittelsberg (801 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Altkönig (798.2 m, hillfort), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hohe Pön (792.7 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland (786 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Kutenberg (785 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Dreiskopf (781 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland (775.3 m), Hessian/North Rhine-Westphalian border, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Taufstein (773.0 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg; highest mountain in Middle Hesse Dungberg (772.7 m), Hessian/Thuringian border, Rhön Großer Nallenberg (768.3 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Hoherodskopf (764 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Auersberg (757 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Kasseler Kuppe (753.6 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hoher Meißner; highest mountain of Northeast Hesse Sieben Ahorn (753 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Kasseler Stein (748 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hoher Meißner Buchschirm (746 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Emmet (742.5 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Auf’m Knoll (738 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Dommel (738.0 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Musenberg (738 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg Herchenhainer Höhe (733 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Stellberg (727 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Schneeberg (726.3 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Sähre (726 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Iberg (720.5 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Geiselstein (720 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Kalbe (720 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hoher Meißner Nesselberg (716 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Koppen (715.1 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Osterkopf (708.5 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Maulkuppe (706 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Wachtküppel (705 m), "Spitzbub", county of Fulda, Rhön Kleiner Nallenberg (704.1 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Orenberg (702.0 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, Upland Weilsberg (700.7 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Gebrannter Rücken (698 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, near Battenberg Ebersberg (689 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Glaskopf (686.8 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Kolbenberg (684.0 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Klingenkopf (682.7 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Dillenberg (682.4 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Wüstegarten (675.3 m), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis/Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Lippestriesch (674.6 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, near Bromskirchen Sackpfeife (673.5 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg/Marburg-Biedenkopf, Rothaar Mountains/Lahn-Dill Uplands Tannenfels (669 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Bilstein (Vogelsberg) (666 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Sängelberg (665.0 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Gackerstein (663 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Pferdskopf (662.6 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Weißeberg (660.2 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hohes Lohr (656.7 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Steinwand (646 m), county of Fulda, Rhön Hohe Warte (644.8 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains Hirschberg (Kaufungen Forest) (643.4 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Kaufungen Forest/Söhre Buchholz (643 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hatzfeld Forest Buchholz (643 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hatzfeld Forest Höllberg (642.8 m), Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Westerwald; highest mountain in the Hessian part of the Westerwald Bilstein (Kaufungen Forest) (641.2 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Kaufungen Forest Roßkopf (max. 640 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Große Aschkoppe (639.8 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Krimmelberg (639.7 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hühnerberg (Taunus) (636.0 m), Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Taunus Junkernberg (636.0 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hunsrück (635.9 m), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kellerwald Eisenberg (Knüll) (635.5 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Knüll Knüllköpfchen (634 m), Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Knüll Fauleberg (633.4 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Großer Eichwald (633.2 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hainpracht (631 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hatzfeld Forest Soisberg (630 m), county of Fulda/Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kuppenrhön, Rhön Traddelkopf (626.4 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Hassenroth (622 m), Marburg-Biedenkopf, Rothaar Mountains Eichkopf (Dornholzhausen) (620.2 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hauberg (619 m), Vogelsbergkreis, Vogelsberg Kalte Herberge (619.3 m), Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Taunus Bremer Berg (618.9 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Auf der Baar (618 m), Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Westerwald Hohe Wurzel (617.9 m), Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Taunus Winterberg (616.6 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Hollerkopf (615.5 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Hohes Gras (614.8 m), city of Kassel, Habichtswald Uplands Bartenstein (614 m), Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Westerwald Judenkopf (613.8 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Auenberg (610.7 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Kellerwald Angelburg (609.4 m), Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Schelderwald/Gladenbach Uplands Bubenberg (609 m), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains, near Hatzfeld Uhlenstein (607.5 m), county of Kassel, Habichtswald Uplands Mühlenstein (607.2 m), Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Kaufungen Forest Weißer Stein (Vogelsberg) (607 m), near Bermuthshain in Vogelsberg Einsiedler (606.6 m), Hochtaunuskreis, Taunus Knoten (605.4 m), Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Westerwald Neunkircher Höhe (605.0 m), Kreis Bergstraße, Odenwald; highest hill in the Hessian part of the Odenwald Hohe Egge (604.9), Waldeck-Frankenberg, Rothaar Mountains