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Download geodata for Baden-Württemberg

Official open geodata for Baden-Württemberg — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1 and DOP — the same data as in the state geoportals, but uniformly processed and ready to download.

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Ready-made files from this server — one click, one download, uniform nationwide in EPSG:25832.

🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use

8,911,442 parcels, 6,115,672 buildings, 3,933,452 land-use polygons.

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	11.37 GB
Parcels only	5.38 GB
Building footprints only	2.70 GB
Land use only	3.29 GB

Source: © LGL Baden-Württemberg · Licence dl-de/by-2-0

⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

36,829 tiles of 1 km² each (73.52 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (36,829 tiles, JSON)	73.52 GB

🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

37,664 tiles of 1 km² each (91.83 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (37,664 tiles, JSON)	91.83 GB

Directly from the state

There is no copy of these datasets here: the tables link per tile to the server of the responsible state agency.

✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies

9,359 tiles, period 2019-06-02–2025-08-26.

Access	Note
Download links (9,359 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Figures & areas in Baden-Württemberg

Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.

Metric	Value
Forest area	1,352,425 ha
Buildings	6,111,021
Residential land	162,670 ha
of which built-up	25.6 %
Parcel size (median)	882 m²

“of which built-up” is the share of residential land covered by buildings — a measure of building density. The median tells how large a typical parcel is (historical partible inheritance makes parcels in the south-west much smaller than in the north-east).

Land use in Baden-Württemberg

What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the state area of 35,722 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	15,786 km²	44.2 %
Forest	13,524 km²	37.9 %
Residential land	1,627 km²	4.6 %
Road transport	994 km²	2.8 %
Paths and tracks	827 km²	2.3 %
Industry & commerce	776 km²	2.2 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	564 km²	1.6 %
Water bodies	394 km²	1.1 %
Mixed-use area	333 km²	0.9 %
Woodland	199 km²	0.6 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	188 km²	0.5 %
Special-purpose area	169 km²	0.5 %
Rail transport	112 km²	0.3 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	86 km²	0.2 %
Squares	40 km²	0.1 %
Heath, bog & marsh	38 km²	0.1 %
Cemetery	37 km²	0.1 %
Air transport	28 km²	0.1 %

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Terrain elevation in Baden-Württemberg

Calculated from the digital terrain model (DGM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).

Metric	Elevation above sea level (NHN)
Minimum	0.0 m
Mean	486.9 m
Maximum	1494.3 m

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Districts in Baden-Württemberg

The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.

Map

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Data as of: 2026-09-05.