Steinen
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Steinen within Westerwaldkreis district
Steinen Show map of Germany Steinen Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 50°34′25″N 7°48′25″E / 50.57361°N 7.80694°E / 50.57361; 7.80694
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Westerwaldkreis
Municipal assoc.	Selters (Westerwald)
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Mario Reifenberg[1]
Area
• Total	4.20 km2 (1.62 sq mi)
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	241
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56244
Dialling codes	02626
Vehicle registration	WW
Website	www.steinen-westerwald.de

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

Steinen lies 5 km from Herschbach and 7 km from Selters on the Westerwald Lake Plateau. In the contest Unser Dorf soll schöner werden - unser Dorf hat Zukunft (“Our village should be lovelier – our village has a future”), Steinen was distinguished several times. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Selters, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

The municipal council is made up of 13 council members, as well as the honorary and presiding mayor (Ortsbürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

The community lies right on Bundesstraße 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Mogendorf on the A 3 (Cologne–Frankfurt). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

• Steinen (Westerwald) (in German)
• Verbandsgemeinde of Selters (in German)