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Official open geodata for Hesse — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1 and DOP — 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

4,991,673 parcels, 5,230,454 buildings, 1,991,106 land-use polygons.

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	6.49 GB
Parcels only	2.70 GB
Building footprints only	2.19 GB
Land use only	1.60 GB

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⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

21,868 tiles of 1 km² each (53.68 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (21,868 tiles, JSON)	53.68 GB

🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

23,575 tiles of 1 km² each (66.89 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (23,575 tiles, JSON)	66.89 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

21,851 tiles, period 2023-05-27–2025-06-20.

Access	Note
Download links (21,851 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Figures & areas in Hesse

Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.

Metric	Value
Forest area	847,888 ha
Buildings	4,943,096
Residential land	93,477 ha
of which built-up	22.9 %
Parcel size (median)	801 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 Hesse

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 21,099 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	8,652 km²	41.0 %
Forest	8,480 km²	40.2 %
Residential land	935 km²	4.4 %
Paths and tracks	686 km²	3.3 %
Road transport	588 km²	2.8 %
Industry & commerce	356 km²	1.7 %
Water bodies	288 km²	1.4 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	269 km²	1.3 %
Mixed-use area	252 km²	1.2 %
Woodland	187 km²	0.9 %
Special-purpose area	121 km²	0.6 %
Rail transport	75 km²	0.4 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	66 km²	0.3 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	57 km²	0.3 %
Cemetery	29 km²	0.1 %
Air transport	28 km²	0.1 %
Squares	24 km²	0.1 %

The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Hesse

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	0.0 m
Mean	298.6 m
Maximum	953.3 m

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Districts in Hesse

The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.

Map

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OGC API Features

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Data as of: 2026-09-01.