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Geodata Forchheim
Stadt Forchheim · Landkreis Forchheim · Bavaria · Municipality key (AGS) 09474126
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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
19,629 buildings, 8,028 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
66 tiles of 1 km² each (135 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (66 tiles, JSON) | 135 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
66 tiles of 1 km² each (179 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (66 tiles, JSON) | 179 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
66 tiles, period 2025-05-10–2025-05-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
66 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Forchheim
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the municipal area of 45 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 17 km² | 37.6 % |
| Agriculture | 11 km² | 24.7 % |
| Residential land | 472 ha | 10.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 246 ha | 5.5 % |
| Road transport | 222 ha | 5.0 % |
| Water bodies | 128 ha | 2.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 126 ha | 2.8 % |
| Woodland | 121 ha | 2.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 109 ha | 2.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 89 ha | 2.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 59 ha | 1.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 41 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 34 ha | 0.8 % |
| Cemetery | 10 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 9 ha | 0.2 % |
| Shipping | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Forchheim
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 | 248.9 m |
| Mean | 293.0 m |
| Maximum | 396.8 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.