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Geodata Linden
Stadt Linden · Landkreis Gießen · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06531012
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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
7,913 parcels, 12,193 buildings, 2,221 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
40 tiles of 1 km² each (97 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (40 tiles, JSON) | 97 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
40 tiles of 1 km² each (112 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (40 tiles, JSON) | 112 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
40 tiles, period 2024-08-28–2024-08-28.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (40 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Linden
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 23 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 10 km² | 44.0 % |
| Forest | 6 km² | 27.0 % |
| Residential land | 229 ha | 10.1 % |
| Road transport | 162 ha | 7.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 69 ha | 3.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 64 ha | 2.8 % |
| Mixed-use area | 33 ha | 1.4 % |
| Rail transport | 27 ha | 1.2 % |
| Water bodies | 26 ha | 1.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 24 ha | 1.1 % |
| Woodland | 19 ha | 0.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 12 ha | 0.5 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 10 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 6 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 4 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Linden
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 | 154.8 m |
| Mean | 197.7 m |
| Maximum | 287.4 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.