The Aremberg is, at , the highest mountain in the Ahr Hills

Ahr Hills

The Ahr Hills are a range of low mountains and hills up to high and long in the Eifel region of Germany, which lie roughly southwest of Bonn on the border between the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate....

  or Ahr Eifel (Ahreifel). It lies in the district of Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....

 (Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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Geographic location

This former Tertiary

Tertiary

The Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...

 volcano

Volcano

2. Bedrock3. Conduit 4. Base5. Sill6. Dike7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano8. Flank| 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano10. Throat11. Parasitic cone12. Lava flow13. Vent14. Crater15...

 rises in the northwestern part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, around 2.25 km east of its border with North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

 and belongs to the volcanic region of th High Eifel. On its southwestern slopes lies the village of Aremberg

Aremberg

Aremberg is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany....

 and, at its southeastern foot, the village of Antweiler

Antweiler

Antweiler is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany....

. The basalt

Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...

cone is surrounded by the small nature reserve of Aremberg.

A section of the middle reaches of the River Ahr flows past the Aremberg to the east; to the north an Ahr tributary, the Eichenbach, flows around the mountain.

Aremberg Castle

On the summit are a few ruins belonging to Aremberg Castle, below and north of the mountaintop runs a section of Roman road

Roman road

The Roman roads were a vital part of the development of the Roman state, from about 500 BC through the expansion during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Roman roads enabled the Romans to move armies and trade goods and to communicate. The Roman road system spanned more than 400,000 km...

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Nürburgring Nordschleife

A section of the Nürburgring

Nürburgring

The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...

-Nordschleife racing track, from which the Aremberg can be seen, is named after the mountain.