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Geodata Melsungen
Stadt Melsungen · Landkreis Schwalm-Eder-Kreis · Hesse · Municipality key (AGS) 06634014
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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
13,234 parcels, 13,646 buildings, 5,963 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
91 tiles of 1 km² each (230 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (91 tiles, JSON) | 230 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
91 tiles of 1 km² each (277 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (91 tiles, JSON) | 277 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
91 tiles, period 2024-08-06–2025-04-04.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (91 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Melsungen
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 63 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 35 km² | 55.2 % |
| Agriculture | 17 km² | 26.8 % |
| Residential land | 311 ha | 4.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 173 ha | 2.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 155 ha | 2.5 % |
| Road transport | 144 ha | 2.3 % |
| Water bodies | 95 ha | 1.5 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 62 ha | 1.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 49 ha | 0.8 % |
| Woodland | 48 ha | 0.8 % |
| Rail transport | 28 ha | 0.4 % |
| Special-purpose area | 23 ha | 0.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 18 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 10 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 8 ha | 0.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Melsungen
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 | 156.5 m |
| Mean | 321.9 m |
| Maximum | 566.6 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.