Stegskopf

The Stegskopf is part of the High Westerwald (the highest region in the Westerwald) in the eastern part of the county of Altenkirchen about 2 km south of Emmerzhausen and immediately west-northwest of the village of Stegskopf. To the northwest the land descends via the Kleines Steinchen (587.3 m) to Derschen. Just over 1 km east of the Stegskopf runs a section of the border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in within which is the village of Lippe, part of Burbach, to the northeast. To the southeast the terrain descends to Stein-Neukirch.

On the Stegskopf, where there are several abandoned quartzite and basalt quarries, is thick pine forest.

The Stegskopf was well known for Daaden Training Area (Lager Stegskopf), a military training area first mentioned in 1914 and taken over by the Bundeswehr in 1958, which formed a military area south of Derschen and Emmerzhausen; the mountain being on its northern edge. In the first quarter of 2015, Lager Stegskopf was closed by the Bundeswehr in the wake of their 'new orientation'.^[2] The radar units, Prinz Eugen - Tegetthoff (1943–1945), called themselves the Stegskopfer, because they went to Lager Stegskopf for special training in Radio-frequency engineering. To these units belonged several well known telecommunications engineers and physicists, for example, Alfred Fettweis, Wolf Häfele, Herbert Daniel and Walter Mayer.^[3]