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Landkreis Gießen · Hesse
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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
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand · with a free account |
| Parcels only | on demand · with a free account |
| Building footprints only | on demand · with a free account |
| Land use only | on demand · with a free account |
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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
976 tiles of 1 km² each (2.39 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (976 tiles, JSON) | 2.39 GB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
976 tiles of 1 km² each (2.77 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (976 tiles, JSON) | 2.77 GB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
976 tiles of 1 km² (649 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (976 tiles, JSON) | 649 MB |
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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
976 tiles, period 2023-05-28–2025-08-26.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (976 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map
latest acquisition 2026-10-05.
| Access | Source |
|---|---|
| Time series since 2015 (JSON) | directly from LGLN geoLabs |
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Land use in Landkreis Gießen
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the district area of 854 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 379 km² | 44.3 % |
| Forest | 298 km² | 34.9 % |
| Residential land | 45 km² | 5.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 29 km² | 3.4 % |
| Road transport | 28 km² | 3.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 17 km² | 2.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 13 km² | 1.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 11 km² | 1.3 % |
| Water bodies | 11 km² | 1.3 % |
| Woodland | 10 km² | 1.2 % |
| Special-purpose area | 6 km² | 0.7 % |
| Rail transport | 269 ha | 0.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 229 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 166 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 122 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 111 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Landkreis Gießen
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 79.8 m |
| Mean | 241.1 m |
| Maximum | 542.2 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Gießen
- Allendorf (Lumda)
- Biebertal
- Buseck
- Fernwald
- Gießen
- Grünberg
- Heuchelheim a.d.Lahn
- Hungen
- Langgöns
- Laubach
- Lich
- Linden
- Lollar
- Pohlheim
- Rabenau
- Reiskirchen
- Staufenberg
- Wettenberg
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.