Geology of Germany clearly set apart from the Alpine foreland, the Northern Limestone Alps form high mountains ("German: ") of well over 2,000 metres above sea level. Of the high mountains of Germany, the highest is Zugspitze, with a height of 2,962 metres, more than a thousand metres higher than Feldberg in the Black Forest, Germany's highest mountain outside the Alps. The Northern Limestone Alps represent a depositional environment that was probably located several hundred kilometres to the south, relative to the current position of the rocks. This is reflected in facies as well as in the fossil record: While in the Eastern
Aremberg (mountain) flows past the Aremberg to the east; to the north an Ahr tributary, the Eichenbach, flows around the mountain. On the summit are a few ruins belonging to Aremberg Castle, once a mighty fortress, below and north of the mountaintop runs a section of Roman road. A section of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife racing track, from which the Aremberg can be seen, is named after the mountain. Aremberg (mountain) The Aremberg is, at , the highest mountain in the Ahr Hills () or Ahr Eifel ("Ahreifel"). It lies in the district of Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany). This former Tertiary volcano rises in the