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Official open geodata for Bavaria — ALKIS, DTM1, DSM1, nDSM1, DOP, Sentinel-2 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

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	30.01 GB · with a free account
Parcels only	18.89 GB · with a free account
Building footprints only	4.62 GB · with a free account
Land use only	6.50 GB · with a free account

Parcels in Bavaria are an approximation, not official. Bavaria does not publish parcels as open data. The parcels layer here contains the free parcel approximation by Minonexus GmbH: boundaries vectorised from the map image of the Parzellarkarte and approximated with a trained model, without parcel identifier or official area (column herkunft = naeherung). For boundaries, areas and ownership only the official cadastre of the Bavarian surveying administration is authoritative. About the approximation and corrections →

Parcels: Flurstücksnäherung Bayern © Minonexus GmbH, CC BY 4.0. Abgeleitet aus Parzellarkarte, 3D-Gebäudemodellen (LoD2) und tatsächlicher Nutzung: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de, CC BY 4.0. Hauskoordinaten: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG, CC BY 4.0. Enthält Informationen aus OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Verändert: automatisch vektorisiert und genähert, nicht amtlich.

Source: © Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung · Flurstücke: Flurstücksnäherung Bayern © Minonexus GmbH · Licence CC BY 4.0

Smaller areas, such as most municipalities, can be downloaded without signing in with a click right here on this page. Large areas such as whole districts and state packages are available with a free account, and scripts or GIS software need an API key. Account and API key →

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

72,381 tiles of 1 km² each (158.73 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (72,381 tiles, JSON)	158.73 GB

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

73,552 tiles of 1 km² each (190.44 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (73,552 tiles, JSON)	190.44 GB

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

73,552 tiles of 1 km² (52.32 GB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (73,552 tiles, JSON)	52.32 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 2023-05-29–2026-05-26.

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

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

latest monthly mosaic 2026-11.

Access	Source
Monthly mosaics (JSON)	directly from LGLN geoLabs

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📡 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 (DTM1): 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	514.1 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: 2026-11-02.