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Geodata Birkenau
Birkenau · Landkreis Bergstraße · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06431004
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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
7,645 parcels, 10,682 buildings, 3,694 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
40 tiles of 1 km² each (105 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (40 tiles, JSON) | 105 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
40 tiles of 1 km² each (121 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (40 tiles, JSON) | 121 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
46 tiles, period 2025-05-02–2025-06-14.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (46 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Birkenau
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 25 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 12 km² | 49.3 % |
| Forest | 8 km² | 32.0 % |
| Residential land | 192 ha | 7.8 % |
| Road transport | 73 ha | 3.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 48 ha | 2.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 35 ha | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 24 ha | 1.0 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 17 ha | 0.7 % |
| Water bodies | 15 ha | 0.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 14 ha | 0.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 14 ha | 0.6 % |
| Rail transport | 6 ha | 0.2 % |
| Woodland | 5 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 5 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 2 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Birkenau
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 | 109.2 m |
| Mean | 273.6 m |
| Maximum | 538.7 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.