Herten
Herten is a town and a municipality in the district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some 5 km west of Recklinghausen.
- Type: Town with 60,600 residents
- Description: town in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “05562020” and “Stadt Herten”
- Neighbors: Gelsenkirchen, Herne, and Recklinghausen
Places of Interest
Highlights: Glashaus (Herten) and St. Josef.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recklinghausen and Buer.
Buer
Suburb
Buer is the largest suburb of Gelsenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Buer is situated 6 km west of Herten.
Herten
- Categories: large district town, urban municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Recklinghausen, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.5942° or 51° 35′ 39″ north
Longitude
7.1368° or 7° 8′ 13″ east
Population
60,600
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
Open location code
9F39H4VP+MP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Herten” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Herten”
- Arabic: “هيرتن”
- Aragonese: “Herten”
- Armenian: “Հերթեն”
- Arpitan: “Herten”
- Asturian: “Herten”
- Basque: “Herten”
- Bavarian: “Herten”
- Belarusian: “Гертэн”
- Breton: “Herten”
- Bulgarian: “Хертен”
- Catalan: “Herten”
- Cebuano: “Herten”
- Chechen: “Хертен”
- Chinese: “黑尔滕”
- Corsican: “Herten”
- Croatian: “Herten”
- Czech: “Herten”
- Danish: “Herten”
- Dutch: “Herten”
- Esperanto: “Herten”
- Estonian: “Herten”
- Finnish: “Herten”
- French: “Herten”
- Friulian: “Herten”
- Galician: “Herten”
- German: “Herten”
- Hebrew: “הרטן”
- Hungarian: “Herten”
- Icelandic: “Herten”
- Ido: “Herten”
- Indonesian: “Herten”
- Interlingua: “Herten”
- Interlingue: “Herten”
- Irish: “Herten”
- Italian: “Herten”
- Japanese: “ヘルテン”
- Jèrriais: “Herten”
- Kazakh: “Хертен”
- Kirghiz: “Хертен”
- Kongo: “Herten”
- Kotava: “Herten”
- Kurdish: “Herten”
- Ladin: “Herten”
- Ligurian: “Herten”
- Limburgan: “Herten”
- Lithuanian: “Hertenas”
- Lombard: “Herten”
- Low German: “Herten”
- Low German: “Hiätten”
- Luxembourgish: “Herten”
- Macedonian: “Хертен”
- Malagasy: “Herten”
- Malay: “Herten”
- Minangkabau: “Herten”
- Neapolitan: “Herten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Herten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Herten”
- Norwegian: “Herten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Herten”
- Persian: “هرتن”
- Picard: “Herten”
- Piemontese: “Herten”
- Polish: “Herten”
- Portuguese: “Herten”
- Romanian: “Herten”
- Romansh: “Herten”
- Russian: “Хертен”
- Sardinian: “Herten”
- Scots: “Herten”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Herten”
- Serbian: “Herten”
- Serbian: “Хертен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Herten”
- Sicilian: “Herten”
- Silesian: “Herten (Půłnocno Nadryńijo-Westfalijo)”
- Silesian: “Herten”
- Slovak: “Herten”
- Slovenian: “Herten”
- South Azerbaijani: “هرتن”
- Spanish: “Herten”
- Swahili: “Herten”
- Swedish: “Herten”
- Swiss German: “Herten”
- Tatar: “Һертен”
- Tumbuka: “Herten”
- Turkish: “Herten”
- Ukrainian: “Гертен”
- Uzbek: “Herten”
- Venetian: “Herten”
- Vietnamese: “Herten”
- Vlaams: “Herten”
- Volapük: “Herten”
- Walloon: “Herten”
- Waray (Philippines): “Herten”
- Welsh: “Herten”
- Wolof: “Herten”
- Zeeuws: “Herten (Duutsland)”
- Zeeuws: “Herten”
- Zulu: “Herten”
- “Herten”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Disteln and Resse.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Otto-Wels-Platz and Stadtbibliothek Herten.
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