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Geodata Cottbus
Stadt Cottbus · Kreisfreie Stadt Cottbus · Brandenburg · Municipality key (AGS) 12052000
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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
42,620 parcels, 51,564 buildings, 24,406 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
Source: © GeoBasis-DE/LGB · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
219 tiles of 1 km² each (595 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (219 tiles, JSON) | 595 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
219 tiles of 1 km² each (639 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (219 tiles, JSON) | 639 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
219 tiles, period 2024-04-07–2025-04-26.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (219 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
219 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (219 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
219 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (219 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Cottbus
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 166 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 45 km² | 26.9 % |
| Forest | 35 km² | 21.2 % |
| Water bodies | 21 km² | 12.4 % |
| Residential land | 14 km² | 8.6 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 11 km² | 6.5 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 8 km² | 5.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 8 km² | 5.0 % |
| Road transport | 7 km² | 4.4 % |
| Woodland | 6 km² | 3.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 284 ha | 1.7 % |
| Paths and tracks | 272 ha | 1.6 % |
| Rail transport | 216 ha | 1.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 119 ha | 0.7 % |
| Squares | 75 ha | 0.5 % |
| Cemetery | 53 ha | 0.3 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Cottbus
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 | 44.5 m |
| Mean | 69.3 m |
| Maximum | 109.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.