Elevation of Sondershausen, Thuringia, Germany

Sondershausen, Thuringia, Germany is 196 m (643 ft) above sea level.

Sondershausen's height from sea level is 196 metres, or 643 feet. GeoNames reads 192 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 185 m to 208 m.

Also written: Schernberg.

Ground within 4 km

189 m – 432 m

Mean 295 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 243 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 26

among the towns of Thuringia, and 379th of 1,000 in Germany.

Nearest town

15.5 km to the N, at 186 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Sondershausen

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 Sondershausen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

467140WE23.4 km
West to east: from 422 m at 12 km west to 176 m at 12 km east.
467140NS23.4 km
North to south: from 202 m at 12 km north to 250 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Sondershausen, 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 Sondershausen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nordhausen 15.5 kmN 186 m (610 ft) −10 m
Sömmerda 29.1 kmSE 142 m (466 ft) −54 m
Sangerhausen (Sachsen-Anhalt) 31.9 kmE 163 m (535 ft) −33 m
Bad Langensalza 32.9 kmSW 189 m (620 ft) −7 m
Mühlhausen 33.8 kmSW 212 m (696 ft) +16 m

Peaks and passes near Sondershausen

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

Where Sondershausen is

Latitude 51.3691898, longitude 10.8710502. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sondershausen elevation: 196 m (643 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 Sondershausen'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 192 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.