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Geodata Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Landkreis Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis · 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

Source: © HVBG · Licence dl-de/by-2-0

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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

923 tiles of 1 km² each (2.25 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (923 tiles, JSON)	2.25 GB

🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

1,100 tiles of 1 km² each (3.17 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (1,100 tiles, JSON)	3.17 GB

🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid

1,100 tiles of 1 km² (950 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (1,100 tiles, JSON)	950 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

980 tiles, period 2023-07-07–2025-09-19.

Access	Note
Download links (980 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map

latest acquisition 2026-10-15.

Access	Source
Time series since 2015 (JSON)	directly from LGLN geoLabs

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📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency

57 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (57 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency

177 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (177 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Landkreis Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

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 811 km².

Use	Area	Share
Forest	438 km²	54.0 %
Agriculture	232 km²	28.7 %
Paths and tracks	31 km²	3.8 %
Residential land	30 km²	3.7 %
Road transport	19 km²	2.3 %
Water bodies	15 km²	1.9 %
Woodland	14 km²	1.8 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	10 km²	1.2 %
Industry & commerce	7 km²	0.9 %
Mixed-use area	6 km²	0.7 %
Special-purpose area	377 ha	0.5 %
Rail transport	227 ha	0.3 %
Squares	81 ha	0.1 %
Cemetery	76 ha	0.1 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	68 ha	0.1 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Landkreis Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

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	69.7 m
Mean	343.5 m
Maximum	631.5 m

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Municipalities in Landkreis Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

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Data as of: 2026-11-02.