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Download geodata for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Official open geodata for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1 and DOP — the same data as in the state geoportals, but uniformly processed and ready to download.
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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
1,960,190 parcels, 1,371,881 buildings, 2,024,625 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | 2.84 GB |
| Parcels only | 1.09 GB |
| Building footprints only | 563 MB |
| Land use only | 1.19 GB |
Source: © GeoBasis-DE/M-V · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
7,259 tiles of 4 km² each (71.92 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (7,259 tiles, JSON) | 71.92 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
7,364 tiles of 4 km² each (85.22 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (7,364 tiles, JSON) | 85.22 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
6,627 tiles, period 2021-03-09–2025-10-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (6,627 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Figures & areas in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Forest area | 498,724 ha |
| Buildings | 1,371,748 |
| Residential land | 42,167 ha |
| of which built-up | 18.8 % |
| Parcel size (median) | 1,589 m² |
“of which built-up” is the share of residential land covered by buildings — a measure of building density. The median tells how large a typical parcel is (historical partible inheritance makes parcels in the south-west much smaller than in the north-east).
Land use in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the state area of 23,306 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 14,320 km² | 61.4 % |
| Forest | 4,987 km² | 21.4 % |
| Water bodies | 1,087 km² | 4.7 % |
| Residential land | 422 km² | 1.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 371 km² | 1.6 % |
| Road transport | 363 km² | 1.6 % |
| Woodland | 245 km² | 1.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 237 km² | 1.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 230 km² | 1.0 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 216 km² | 0.9 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 192 km² | 0.8 % |
| Mixed-use area | 152 km² | 0.7 % |
| Rail transport | 56 km² | 0.2 % |
| Special-purpose area | 56 km² | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 55 km² | 0.2 % |
| Air transport | 30 km² | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 18 km² | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 14 km² | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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 | -6.4 m |
| Mean | 35.0 m |
| Maximum | 179.2 m |
Districts in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.
- Kreisfreie Stadt Rostock
- Kreisfreie Stadt Schwerin
- Landkreis Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
- Landkreis Rostock
- Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen
- Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg
- Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald
- Landkreis Ludwigslust-Parchim
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.