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Geodata Osten
Osten · Landkreis Cuxhaven · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03352044
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
4,979 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
66 tiles of 1 km² each (255 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (66 tiles, JSON) | 255 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
66 tiles of 1 km² each (258 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (66 tiles, JSON) | 258 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
66 tiles, period 2026-03-19–2026-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (6)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2012 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2015 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2018 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2021 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
66 tiles, period 2026-03-19–2026-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (3)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2021 (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (66 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Osten
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 48 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 39 km² | 81.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 204 ha | 4.3 % |
| Water bodies | 163 ha | 3.4 % |
| Residential land | 97 ha | 2.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 86 ha | 1.8 % |
| Mixed-use area | 86 ha | 1.8 % |
| Road transport | 59 ha | 1.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 50 ha | 1.0 % |
| Forest | 49 ha | 1.0 % |
| Woodland | 42 ha | 0.9 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 15 ha | 0.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 6 ha | 0.1 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
| Other uses | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Osten
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 | -2.9 m |
| Mean | -0.3 m |
| Maximum | 11.7 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.