Elevation of Hörstel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hörstel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Hörstel's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 46 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 45 m.

Ground within 4 km

38 m – 104 m

Mean 47 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

225th of 269

among the towns of North Rhine-Westphalia, and 813th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

Ibbenbüren

9.5 km to the E, at 89 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Hörstel

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hörstel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 41 m at 12 km west to 120 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 36 m at 12 km north to 36 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Hörstel, 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 Hörstel

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ibbenbüren	9.5 km	E	89 m (292 ft)	+41 m
Rheine	9.7 km	W	39 m (128 ft)	−9 m
Emsdetten	14.6 km	S	42 m (138 ft)	−6 m
Greven	22.3 km	S	49 m (161 ft)	+1 m
Lengerich	22.8 km	SE	70 m (230 ft)	+22 m

Where Hörstel is

Latitude 52.2958863, longitude 7.5838639. 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 Hörstel'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 46 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.