Elevation of Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Heinsberg's height from sea level is 38 metres, or 125 feet. GeoNames reads 39 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 76 m.

Ground within 4 km

31 m – 75 m

Mean 48 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 44 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

246th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 865th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Wassenberg

6.4 km to the NE, at 93 m, 55 m higher.

Cross-section through Heinsberg

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 Heinsberg; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 50 m at 12 km west to 89 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 71 m at 12 km north to 115 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Heinsberg, 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 Heinsberg

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Wassenberg	6.4 km	NE	93 m (305 ft)	+55 m
Hückelhoven	7.3 km	E	59 m (194 ft)	+21 m
Geilenkirchen	10.3 km	S	91 m (299 ft)	+53 m
Roerdalen (Netherlands)	10.6 km	NW	29 m (95 ft)	−9 m
Erkelenz	14 km	E	98 m (322 ft)	+60 m

Where Heinsberg is

Latitude 51.0600381, longitude 6.1183729. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Heinsberg'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 39 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.