Streithausen

Streithausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – and a state-recognized tourism community (Fremdenverkehrsgemeinde) in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationWith reference to the broader area, Streithausen lies between Koblenz and Siegen in the north–south axis and between Cologne and Frankfurt in the east–west axis in the northern Westerwald, which likewise forms the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The community is regarded as part of the Kroppach Switzerland (Kroppacher Schweiz), a nature and landscape conservation area characterized by the Große Nister and Kleine Nister with their narrow valleys and in places steep mountain slopes. The village lies south of the Kleine Nister in a side valley, which has been built up, or is being built up, on both slopes (south slope with the Ley and Sonnenberg, north slope with the Leychen and Hofberg). Streithausen belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.Neighbouring communitiesThe municipal area comprises 392 ha in elevations ranging from 230 to 380 m above sea level. It borders in the northeast on Atzelgift’s and Nister’s municipal areas. From the southeast to the southwest at the Große Nister, Streithausen abuts Hachenburg, Müschenbach and Astert, in the west on Limbach and in the northwest at the Kleine Nister on Limbach und Atzelgift. The community limit stretches for roughly 15 km.