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Geodata Cuxhaven
Stadt Cuxhaven · Landkreis Cuxhaven · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03352011
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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
33,154 parcels.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
Source: © GeoBasis-DE/LGLN · Licence CC BY 4.0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
204 tiles of 1 km² each (710 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (204 tiles, JSON) | 710 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
204 tiles of 1 km² each (737 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (204 tiles, JSON) | 737 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
205 tiles, period 2025-09-24–2026-03-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (205 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (8)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2012 (52 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2015 (52 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2018 (52 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2021 (52 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (7 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (94 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (34 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (174 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
205 tiles, period 2025-09-24–2026-03-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (205 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (5)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2021 (205 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (247 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (34 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (174 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Cuxhaven
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 162 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 102 km² | 63.1 % |
| Forest | 15 km² | 9.4 % |
| Residential land | 12 km² | 7.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 6 km² | 3.9 % |
| Road transport | 482 ha | 3.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 367 ha | 2.3 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 359 ha | 2.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 297 ha | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 280 ha | 1.7 % |
| Woodland | 253 ha | 1.6 % |
| Mixed-use area | 243 ha | 1.5 % |
| Other uses | 123 ha | 0.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 82 ha | 0.5 % |
| Rail transport | 61 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 38 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 35 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 29 ha | 0.2 % |
| Shipping | 8 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Cuxhaven
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 | -2.0 m |
| Mean | 4.1 m |
| Maximum | 37.7 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.