Lower Westerwald

The Lower Westerwald (German: Niederwesterwald) is a region, over 1,300 km2 in area, in the west of the German hill range, the Westerwald, in the north of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and, for small elements, in the south of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In the south it also includes the historical cultural landscape of the Kannenbäckerland.

It surfaces frequently in the names of clubs and institutions, but is not however used in any standardised way.

It generally refers to the region of the old county of Unterwesterwaldkreis, which did not include the whole of the Lower Westerwald to the west and north, but extended further east into the natural region of the Upper Westerwald.

The prefix "Nieder" does not mean that the landscape as a whole was more level than the neighbouring Upper Westerwald to the east.