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Official open geodata for Bavaria — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP and LiDAR — 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

10,264,217 buildings, 6,763,702 land-use polygons.

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	11.26 GB
Building footprints only	4.76 GB
Land use only	6.50 GB

Source: © Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung · Licence CC BY 4.0

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

72,376 tiles of 1 km² each (159.15 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (72,376 tiles, JSON)	159.15 GB

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

73,552 tiles of 1 km² each (190.35 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (73,552 tiles, JSON)	190.35 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

71,969 tiles, period 2023-05-29–2025-09-07.

Access	Note
Download links (71,969 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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

71,979 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (71,979 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Figures & areas in Bavaria

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

Metric	Value
Forest area	2,470,595 ha
Buildings	10,264,326
Residential land	227,899 ha
of which built-up	23.0 %

“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 Bavaria

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 70,550 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	32,255 km²	45.7 %
Forest	24,706 km²	35.0 %
Residential land	2,279 km²	3.2 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	1,909 km²	2.7 %
Road transport	1,766 km²	2.5 %
Paths and tracks	1,287 km²	1.8 %
Mixed-use area	1,213 km²	1.7 %
Water bodies	1,208 km²	1.7 %
Industry & commerce	1,040 km²	1.5 %
Woodland	951 km²	1.3 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	563 km²	0.8 %
Special-purpose area	297 km²	0.4 %
Heath, bog & marsh	160 km²	0.2 %
Rail transport	158 km²	0.2 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	154 km²	0.2 %
Squares	59 km²	0.1 %
Air transport	50 km²	0.1 %
Cemetery	41 km²	0.1 %

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

Terrain elevation in Bavaria

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	514.0 m
Maximum	2961.9 m

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Districts in Bavaria

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

Map

View parcels and buildings directly, from zoom level 16.

Extract-API

Custom extracts and other formats via the API.

OGC API Features

Standards-compliant interface for GIS software.

Data as of: 2026-09-02.