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Geodata Kassel
Landkreis Kassel · 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
257,911 parcels, 253,878 buildings, 93,758 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 |
Source: © HVBG · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
1,502 tiles of 1 km² each (3.67 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,502 tiles, JSON) | 3.67 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
1,692 tiles of 1 km² each (4.74 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,692 tiles, JSON) | 4.74 GB |
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
1,607 tiles, period 2024-05-02–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (1,607 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (20)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
238 tiles, period 2024-05-02–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (238 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2022 (166 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (166 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
72 tiles, period 2023-03-01–2023-03-16.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (72 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Landkreis Kassel
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 1,292 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 564 km² | 43.6 % |
| Forest | 517 km² | 40.0 % |
| Residential land | 57 km² | 4.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 33 km² | 2.6 % |
| Road transport | 33 km² | 2.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 17 km² | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 14 km² | 1.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 14 km² | 1.0 % |
| Water bodies | 13 km² | 1.0 % |
| Woodland | 9 km² | 0.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 5 km² | 0.4 % |
| Special-purpose area | 5 km² | 0.4 % |
| Rail transport | 414 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 186 ha | 0.1 % |
| Air transport | 185 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 156 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 139 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Landkreis Kassel
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 | 0.0 m |
| Mean | 277.9 m |
| Maximum | 639.7 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Kassel
- Ahnatal
- Bad Emstal
- Bad Karlshafen
- Baunatal
- Breuna
- Calden
- Espenau
- Fuldabrück
- Fuldatal
- Grebenstein
- Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald
- Habichtswald
- Helsa
- Hofgeismar
- Immenhausen
- Kaufungen
- Liebenau
- Lohfelden
- Naumburg
- Nieste
- Niestetal
- Reinhardshagen
- Schauenburg
- Söhrewald
- Trendelburg
- Vellmar
- Wesertal
- Wolfhagen
- Zierenberg
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.