The Rotes Höhenvieh is a breed of red cattle from the Central Uplands of Germany.

It was created in 1985 as a merger of the few remaining examples of a number of closely similar regional breeds of upland red cattle.

Reconstruction of the breed was made possible by the discovery of a stock of semen in a sperm bank.

Recovery of the breed was based on about 20 cows, not pure-bred but retaining some characteristics of the old breed, and on the rediscovery in the Zentralbesamungsstation or semen collection centre of Giessen, in Hesse, of about 60 doses of semen from a pure-bred bull.

[9] Rotes Höhenvieh cows give about 4000 kg per lactation; the milk has 3% fat and 4% protein.