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Geodata Karlsruhe
Stadtkreis 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
76,689 parcels, 87,203 buildings, 19,658 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
Source: © LGL Baden-Württemberg · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
232 tiles of 1 km² each (472 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (232 tiles, JSON) | 472 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
253 tiles of 1 km² each (680 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (253 tiles, JSON) | 680 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
77 tiles, period 2022-07-03–2024-08-24.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (77 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
10 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (10 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
28 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (28 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Stadtkreis 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 173 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 45 km² | 25.8 % |
| Agriculture | 39 km² | 22.5 % |
| Residential land | 23 km² | 13.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 17 km² | 10.1 % |
| Road transport | 16 km² | 9.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 12 km² | 6.9 % |
| Water bodies | 7 km² | 4.1 % |
| Special-purpose area | 5 km² | 3.0 % |
| Rail transport | 309 ha | 1.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 245 ha | 1.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 93 ha | 0.5 % |
| Cemetery | 80 ha | 0.5 % |
| Woodland | 76 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 67 ha | 0.4 % |
| Mixed-use area | 59 ha | 0.3 % |
| Shipping | 15 ha | 0.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 13 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Stadtkreis Karlsruhe
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 | 99.3 m |
| Mean | 135.4 m |
| Maximum | 338.4 m |
Municipalities in Stadtkreis Karlsruhe
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Data as of: 2026-09-05.