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Geodata Birstein
Birstein · Landkreis Main-Kinzig-Kreis · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06435004
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
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|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
116 tiles of 1 km² each (276 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (116 tiles, JSON) | 276 MB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
116 tiles of 1 km² each (309 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (116 tiles, JSON) | 309 MB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
116 tiles of 1 km² (63 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (116 tiles, JSON) | 63 MB |
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✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies
116 tiles, period 2025-08-26–2025-08-26.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (116 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Birstein
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 87 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 48 km² | 55.3 % |
| Forest | 28 km² | 32.5 % |
| Paths and tracks | 363 ha | 4.2 % |
| Residential land | 150 ha | 1.7 % |
| Road transport | 132 ha | 1.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 116 ha | 1.3 % |
| Water bodies | 92 ha | 1.1 % |
| Woodland | 61 ha | 0.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 54 ha | 0.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 30 ha | 0.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 23 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 17 ha | 0.2 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 8 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 6 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 6 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Birstein
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 | 166.8 m |
| Mean | 376.7 m |
| Maximum | 607.3 m |
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.