Elevation of Forchtenstein, Burgenland, Austria

Forchtenstein, Burgenland, Austria is 368 m (1,207 ft) above sea level.

Forchtenstein's height from sea level is 368 metres, or 1,207 feet. GeoNames reads 347 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 343 m.

Ground within 4 km

242 m – 707 m

Mean 454 m across the 8.5 km square centred on the town, 465 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 55

among the towns of Burgenland, and 616th of 1,000 in Austria.

Nearest town

3 km to the N, at 332 m, 36 m lower.

Cross-section through Forchtenstein

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Forchtenstein; the vertical scale is the same on both.

699198WE24.1 km
West to east: from 372 m at 12 km west to 285 m at 12 km east.
699198NS24.1 km
North to south: from 242 m at 12 km north to 664 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 50 km around Forchtenstein, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 50 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Forchtenstein

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Wiesen 3 kmN 332 m (1,089 ft) −36 m
Mattersburg 4.9 kmNE 246 m (807 ft) −122 m
Marz 5.6 kmE 251 m (823 ft) −117 m
Rohrbach bei Mattersburg 6.4 kmE 298 m (978 ft) −70 m
Bad Sauerbrunn 7.4 kmN 258 m (846 ft) −110 m

Peaks and passes near Forchtenstein

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Forchtenstein is

Latitude 47.71079, longitude 16.34317. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Forchtenstein elevation: 368 m (1,207 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Forchtenstein's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 347 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.