Ettinghausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Hachenburg.

The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.

Running right through the community is Bundesstraße 255 linking Montabaur and Herborn.

The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.