Winterberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia in central Germany, covering about 148 square kilometers at the source of the Ruhr and Lenne rivers in the Sauerland region, with 13,124 residents as of the end of 2025. Declared a city around 1270 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, it belonged to the Hanseatic League from the 13th to 17th centuries and lay along important medieval trade routes. Today it is a major winter sports resort, home to a bobsleigh, luge and skeleton track and part of the Wintersport Arena Sauerland, and its Kahler Asten peak is the second highest mountain in the Sauerland.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Winterberg (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 13,124 (2025)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 51.195, longitude 8.53
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 668 m
P2046 (area)
area 147.95 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 13124 (2025)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Winterberg - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2807788
51.19248 8.53468 P PPL DE 07 059 05958 05958048 14601 679 Europe/Berlin
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 679 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 51.25, 8.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 8.75
51.25 8.75 Cfb
Winterberg (Wikipedia)
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
town in the Hochsauerland district of North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany
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