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Geodata Heroldsbach
Heroldsbach · Landkreis Forchheim · Bavaria · Municipality key (AGS) 09474135
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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
4,777 buildings, 2,671 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
28 tiles of 1 km² each (57 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (28 tiles, JSON) | 57 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
28 tiles of 1 km² each (78 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (28 tiles, JSON) | 78 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
28 tiles, period 2025-05-10–2025-05-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (28 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 Heroldsbach
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 16 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 8 km² | 51.4 % |
| Agriculture | 395 ha | 25.3 % |
| Residential land | 112 ha | 7.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 46 ha | 3.0 % |
| Road transport | 41 ha | 2.6 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 38 ha | 2.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 32 ha | 2.0 % |
| Water bodies | 29 ha | 1.8 % |
| Mixed-use area | 25 ha | 1.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 12 ha | 0.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 9 ha | 0.6 % |
| Woodland | 8 ha | 0.5 % |
| Squares | 3 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 1 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Heroldsbach
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 | 262.7 m |
| Mean | 305.6 m |
| Maximum | 363.3 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.