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Geodata Bensheim

Stadt Bensheim · Landkreis Bergstraße · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06431002

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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

24,711 parcels, 35,885 buildings, 9,401 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

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

87 tiles of 1 km² each (225 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (87 tiles, JSON)	225 MB

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

87 tiles of 1 km² each (262 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (87 tiles, JSON)	262 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

87 tiles, period 2025-06-11–2025-06-11.

Access	Note
Download links (87 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Bensheim

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 58 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	24 km²	41.8 %
Forest	15 km²	26.2 %
Residential land	6 km²	10.0 %
Road transport	255 ha	4.4 %
Industry & commerce	234 ha	4.1 %
Paths and tracks	156 ha	2.7 %
Water bodies	152 ha	2.6 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	130 ha	2.2 %
Mixed-use area	93 ha	1.6 %
Special-purpose area	68 ha	1.2 %
Woodland	46 ha	0.8 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	40 ha	0.7 %
Rail transport	23 ha	0.4 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	22 ha	0.4 %
Squares	17 ha	0.3 %
Cemetery	12 ha	0.2 %
Air transport	6 ha	0.1 %

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Terrain elevation in Bensheim

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	88.9 m
Mean	181.9 m
Maximum	536.9 m

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Data as of: 2026-09-01.