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Download geodata for Berlin
Official open geodata for Berlin — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP and bDOM — 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
403,686 parcels, 784,129 buildings, 107,267 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | 778 MB |
| Parcels only | 256 MB |
| Building footprints only | 415 MB |
| Land use only | 108 MB |
Source: Geoportal Berlin / ALKIS Berlin · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
1,305 tiles of 1 km² each (5.65 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,305 tiles, JSON) | 5.65 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
1,305 tiles of 1 km² each (6.80 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,305 tiles, JSON) | 6.80 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
9 tiles, period 2025-08-11–2025-08-11.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (9 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
282 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (282 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Figures & areas in Berlin
Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Forest area | 15,837 ha |
| Buildings | 783,572 |
| Residential land | 22,632 ha |
| of which built-up | 28.4 % |
| Parcel size (median) | 617 m² |
“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 Berlin
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 892 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential land | 226 km² | 25.4 % |
| Forest | 158 km² | 17.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 119 km² | 13.3 % |
| Road transport | 101 km² | 11.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 66 km² | 7.3 % |
| Water bodies | 58 km² | 6.5 % |
| Special-purpose area | 46 km² | 5.1 % |
| Agriculture | 36 km² | 4.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 30 km² | 3.4 % |
| Rail transport | 20 km² | 2.2 % |
| Cemetery | 11 km² | 1.2 % |
| Woodland | 8 km² | 0.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 5 km² | 0.6 % |
| Squares | 363 ha | 0.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 174 ha | 0.2 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 111 ha | 0.1 % |
| Air transport | 64 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Berlin
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 | -24.2 m |
| Mean | 42.7 m |
| Maximum | 122.4 m |
Districts in Berlin
The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.
View parcels and buildings directly, from zoom level 16.
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Data as of: 2026-08-01.