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

Hilgert lies roughly 13 km from Koblenz on the edge of the Nassau Nature Park.

The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Höhr-Grenzhausen, a kind of collective municipality.

[citation needed] The municipal council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.

The A 48 with its Höhr-Grenzhausen interchange (AS 12) lies right near the municipal area, 3 km away.