The Häuschen is a hill, , in the

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mountains. It rises near

Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the ...

in the county of

in the German state of

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Geography

Location

The Häuschen is located in the Ahr Eifel in the Ahrweiler Forest (''Ahrweiler Wald''). Its summit rises about 4.5 km south-southwest of

, 3 km south of

Walporzheim Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the ...

and 2.3 km northwest of Ramersbach, which are all subdistricts of

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German States of Germany, Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the Capital (political), capital of the Ahrweiler (district), Ahrweiler district. The Bundesautobahn 61, A61 motorway conn ...

in the

Ahr Ahr () is a river in Germany, a left tributary of the Rhine. Its source is at an elevation of approximately above sea level in Blankenheim in the Eifel, in the cellar of a timber-frame house near the castle of Blankenheim. After it crosses f ...

valley. It is 2.7 km southeast of the village of

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, 4 km south-southeast of the village of

Dernau Dernau is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The village of Dernau which is centrally located in the Ahr valley The Ahr valley (, ) is named after the Ahr, a left tributary of the Rhine in Germany. It ...

and 2.7 km (each

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) north-northeast of the

Kesseling Kesseling is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north ...

village of Staffel. East of the hill rises the ''Wingsbach'' which is fed by the little ''Talbach'' and which flows northwards through the valley of ''Hungertal'' and empties into the

River Ahr Ahr () is a river in Germany, a left tributary of the Rhine. Its source is at an elevation of approximately above sea level in Blankenheim in the Eifel, in the cellar of a timber-frame house near the castle of Blankenheim. After it crosses from ...

at Ahrweiler. To the northwest is the source of the ''Heckenbach'', which is fed by the ''Beulsbach'', runs north through the valley of ''Heckental'' and discharges into the Ahr at Walporzheim. To the south-southwest is the confluence of the ''Ahrbach'' and ''Sannerbach'' which forms the ''Ahlbach'' and then flows southwards before joining the ''Staffeler Bach'' (a tributary of the Kesselinger Bach).

Natural regions

The Häuschen lies within the

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major unit group of the

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

(no. 27), in the major unit of the Ahr Eifel (272) and the subunit of the South Ahr Upland (''Südliches Ahrbergland'', 272.3), its northern flank being part of the lower subunit of the Middle Ahr Valley (''Mittleres Ahrtal'', 272.2) and in the natural room of the ''Recher Ahrengtal'' (272.21).

Height

The height of the Häuschen is 506.5 m but is sometimes rounded off to 505 m, which relates to the height given on the topographical map of 505.2 m, but is in fact a point about 45 metres east of the summit on a forest track. There is another spot height to the west-northwest of 498.8 m in the

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between the Häuschen and its west-northwestern top (501.5 m).

Protected areas

On the Häuschen lies part of the

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of the ''Rhine-Ahr Eifel'' ( CDDA no. 323834; designated in 1980; 925.86

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). Its western flank descends into the

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of ''Ahrgebirge'' (VSG no. 5507-401; 304.23 ha).

Häuschen Tower

On 11 May 1908 an

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was erected on the Häuschen, the Häuschen Tower (''Häuschen-Turm''), which was 20 metres high. In the final phase of the

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(1939–1945) it housed a radio station of the

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, and the wooden tower was burned down in spring 1945. On 30 September 1956 a new tower was inaugurated, of which only a few remains exist. From the

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there was an all-round view of the Eifel including the

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(''Ahr Eifel''), of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the Ahr Valley and as far as the

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and

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Transport and walking

The B 267 runs past the Häuschen to the north through the

valley. The L 84 runs past to the east from Ahrweiler to Ramersbach, and the L 85 southwest of

to Staffel and continues east-northeast through Ramersbach. Over the hill run several trails including main trail (''Hauptwanderweg'') no. 11 (

Sinzig Sinzig is a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Rhine, about 5 km south-east of Remagen and 25 km south-east of Bonn, and it has approximately 20,000 inhabitants (2004). ...

–

Monschau Monschau (; , ; ) is a small resort town in the Eifel region of western Germany, located in the Aachen district of North Rhine-Westphalia. Geography The town is located in the hills of the North Eifel, within the Hohes Venn – Eifel Nature ...

) of the

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Map

* Hiking map of the

''Das Ahrtal'',

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= 1:25,000, Sheet 9

References

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