North Rhine-Westphalia
Münster
Recklinghausen

Herten

Herten is a town and a municipality in the , in , . It is situated in the industrial Ruhr Area, some 5 km west of .
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  • Type: Town with 60,600 residents
  • Description: town in Recklinghausen District, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “05562020” and “Stadt Herten”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glashaus (Herten) and St. Antonius.

Public building
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is a public building.

Church
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is a church.

Sports venue
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is a sports venue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Recklinghausen and Buer.

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is a town of 114 000 in the northern with a relatively well-preserved, attractive old town.

Suburb
is the largest suburb of in . The Hochstrasse in the heart of is the largest shopping street in Gelsenkirchen. is situated 6 km west of Herten.

Suburb
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is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Herten.

Herten

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
node 240079235
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6557588
Wiki­data ID
Q3985
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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”
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  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “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”
  • Zulu: “Herten”

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