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Geodata Potsdam
Stadt Potsdam · Kreisfreie Stadt Potsdam · Brandenburg · Municipality key (AGS) 12054000
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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
45,754 parcels, 51,266 buildings, 17,695 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
261 tiles of 1 km² each (807 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (261 tiles, JSON) | 807 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
257 tiles of 1 km² each (857 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (257 tiles, JSON) | 857 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
245 tiles, period 2024-04-30–2024-05-14.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (245 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
260 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (260 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
245 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (245 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Potsdam
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 188 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 53 km² | 28.2 % |
| Forest | 47 km² | 25.0 % |
| Water bodies | 20 km² | 10.8 % |
| Residential land | 19 km² | 9.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 13 km² | 7.0 % |
| Road transport | 9 km² | 5.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 7 km² | 3.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 6 km² | 2.9 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 339 ha | 1.8 % |
| Woodland | 229 ha | 1.2 % |
| Rail transport | 208 ha | 1.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 205 ha | 1.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 170 ha | 0.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 165 ha | 0.9 % |
| Cemetery | 63 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 52 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 40 ha | 0.2 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Potsdam
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 | 27.6 m |
| Mean | 37.8 m |
| Maximum | 116.2 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.