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Geodata Erlangen
Kreisfreie Stadt Erlangen · Bavaria
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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
46,276 buildings, 15,640 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
Source: © Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung · Licence CC BY 4.0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
108 tiles of 1 km² each (234 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (108 tiles, JSON) | 234 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
108 tiles of 1 km² each (290 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (108 tiles, JSON) | 290 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
108 tiles, period 2025-06-13–2025-06-13.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (108 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
108 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (108 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Erlangen
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 77 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 23 km² | 29.4 % |
| Forest | 15 km² | 19.9 % |
| Residential land | 11 km² | 14.7 % |
| Road transport | 7 km² | 9.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 446 ha | 5.8 % |
| Water bodies | 263 ha | 3.4 % |
| Special-purpose area | 258 ha | 3.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 243 ha | 3.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 194 ha | 2.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 174 ha | 2.3 % |
| Paths and tracks | 158 ha | 2.1 % |
| Woodland | 141 ha | 1.8 % |
| Rail transport | 50 ha | 0.6 % |
| Squares | 35 ha | 0.4 % |
| Cemetery | 22 ha | 0.3 % |
| Shipping | 7 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Erlangen
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 | 265.7 m |
| Mean | 294.5 m |
| Maximum | 387.5 m |
Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Erlangen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.