Elevation of Heiligenhaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Heiligenhaus, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 156 m (512 ft) above sea level.

Heiligenhaus's height from sea level is 156 metres, or 512 feet. GeoNames reads 180 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 180 m.

Ground within 4 km

44 m – 212 m

Mean 136 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 168 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

71st of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 440th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

5.5 km to the E, at 253 m, 97 m higher.

Cross-section through Heiligenhaus

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Heiligenhaus; the vertical scale is the same on both.

27334WE23.4 km
West to east: from 51 m at 12 km west to 153 m at 12 km east.
27334NS23.4 km
North to south: from 74 m at 12 km north to 81 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Heiligenhaus, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Heiligenhaus

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Velbert 5.5 kmE 253 m (830 ft) +97 m
Wülfrath 7.1 kmSE 199 m (653 ft) +43 m
Mettmann 8.5 kmS 148 m (486 ft) −8 m
Ratingen 9.4 kmW 46 m (151 ft) −110 m
Erkrath 12.5 kmS 61 m (200 ft) −95 m

Where Heiligenhaus is

Latitude 51.3273148, longitude 6.9655959. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Heiligenhaus elevation: 156 m (512 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 Heiligenhaus'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 180 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.