Hangelstein, Mountain summit in Hesse, Germany

Hangelstein is a mountain summit near Giessen that rises to 305 meters above sea level and forms part of the Lumda Plateau. The peak has basalt rock formations and is crisscrossed by hiking trails that wind through the forested landscape.

The Hangelstein's summit area has been a nature reserve since 1939, enlarged to 107 hectares in 1976 and re-designated in 1994; it has also been an FFH area since 2004. Neolithic finds of the Michelsberger culture, Bronze Age Urnfield culture finds and remains of a Celtic ring wall give the hill archaeological value. The Frankfurt researcher Johann Christian Senckenberg visited it because of its botany.

The hill's name is linked to the nearby village of Wieseck, whose residents use it as a local recreation area for jogging, walking and cycling. The whole hill lies within a 107-hectare nature reserve, and the Frankfurt researcher Johann Christian Senckenberg visited it because of its botanical interest.

Several hiking trails cross the mountain with routes that typically take around one hour to complete and offer varying difficulty levels. Wear sturdy footwear since the paths go over rocky sections and through wooded areas.

On the western side of the hill lies the Felsenkanzel, a rock formation of horizontally layered basalt columns that was quarried as a stone pit in the Middle Ages. Archaeologists also found Neolithic and Bronze Age remains and traces of a Celtic ring wall on the hill.