Duderstadt is a city in the Gottingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, serving as the center and capital of the northern Eichsfeld, with a population of 20,375 as of December 2024. First documented in 929 AD, a date the city uses as its founding year, it was historically the private property of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Mainz. Duderstadt is known for extensive half-timbered architecture along Market Street and for the Westerturm gate tower, built in 1343 with a distinctive twisted roof, and is the headquarters of the prosthetics company Otto Bock.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Duderstadt (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 20,173 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.5125, longitude 10.259722
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 180 m
P2046 (area)
area 95.61 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 20173 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Duderstadt - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2934728
51.51312 10.25951 P PPL DE 06 00 03159 03159010 22910 186 Europe/Berlin
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 186 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 10.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 10.25
51.75 10.25 Cfb
Duderstadt (Wikipedia)
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