Herscheid
Herscheid (; ) is a municipality in the southern Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Key facts
- German place.name
- Herscheid
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Herscheid - Am Markt 02 ies.jpg
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Herscheid COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Herscheid in MK.svg
- German place.state
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- German place.region
- Arnsberg
- German place.district
- Märkischer Kreis
- German place.elevation
- 250 - 663
- German place.area
- 59.4
- German place.postal_code
- 58849
- German place.area_code
- 02357
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Herscheid (; ) is a municipality in the southern Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
==Geography== Herscheid is located in the Ebbegebirge ("Ebbe Mountains"), a part of the Sauerland mountains. Altitudes in the municipality extend from 250m above sea level in the valley of the Schwarze Ahe up to the highest elevation, the high Nordhelle. The municipality covers an area of , of which 58% is forest and 33% is used agriculturally. Most of the area is protected as a nature reserve, the Naturpark Ebbegebirge.
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