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Geodata Messel
Messel · Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06432012
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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
3,456 parcels, 3,936 buildings, 1,221 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
30 tiles of 1 km² each (75 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (30 tiles, JSON) | 75 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
30 tiles of 1 km² each (97 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (30 tiles, JSON) | 97 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
30 tiles, period 2025-06-20–2025-06-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Messel
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 15 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 7 km² | 49.4 % |
| Agriculture | 367 ha | 24.8 % |
| Industry & commerce | 77 ha | 5.2 % |
| Residential land | 70 ha | 4.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 66 ha | 4.5 % |
| Road transport | 44 ha | 3.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 41 ha | 2.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 30 ha | 2.0 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 26 ha | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 10 ha | 0.7 % |
| Rail transport | 10 ha | 0.6 % |
| Mixed-use area | 9 ha | 0.6 % |
| Woodland | 5 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 4 ha | 0.3 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 3 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 1 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Messel
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 | 103.8 m |
| Mean | 169.9 m |
| Maximum | 228.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.