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Geodata Karlsruhe

Landkreis Karlsruhe · Baden-Württemberg

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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

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	on demand · with a free account
Parcels only	on demand · with a free account
Building footprints only	on demand · with a free account
Land use only	on demand · with a free account

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

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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

1,263 tiles of 1 km² each (2.54 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (1,263 tiles, JSON)	2.54 GB

🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

1,333 tiles of 1 km² each (3.51 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (1,333 tiles, JSON)	3.51 GB

🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid

1,333 tiles of 1 km² (965 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (1,333 tiles, JSON)	965 MB

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

374 tiles, period 2022-07-03–2026-07-28.

Access	Note
Download links (374 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map

latest acquisition 2026-10-05.

Access	Source
Time series since 2015 (JSON)	directly from LGLN geoLabs

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📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency

26 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (26 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency

82 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (82 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Landkreis Karlsruhe

What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the district area of 1,084 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	470 km²	43.3 %
Forest	363 km²	33.5 %
Residential land	70 km²	6.4 %
Road transport	34 km²	3.2 %
Industry & commerce	33 km²	3.0 %
Paths and tracks	25 km²	2.3 %
Water bodies	24 km²	2.2 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	22 km²	2.0 %
Special-purpose area	8 km²	0.8 %
Mixed-use area	6 km²	0.6 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	6 km²	0.6 %
Rail transport	6 km²	0.6 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	6 km²	0.5 %
Woodland	6 km²	0.5 %
Cemetery	149 ha	0.1 %
Squares	147 ha	0.1 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Landkreis Karlsruhe

Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).

Metric	Elevation above sea level (NHN)
Minimum	91.4 m
Mean	178.1 m
Maximum	633.6 m

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Municipalities in Landkreis Karlsruhe

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Data as of: 2026-11-03.