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Geodata Emsland
Landkreis Emsland · Lower Saxony
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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
324,276 parcels, 10 buildings, 62 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 |
Source: © GeoBasis-DE/LGLN · Licence CC BY 4.0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
3,061 tiles of 1 km² each (8.50 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (3,061 tiles, JSON) | 8.50 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
3,061 tiles of 1 km² each (8.46 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (3,061 tiles, JSON) | 8.46 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
888 tiles, period 2024-08-27–2026-04-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (888 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (23)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
3,137 tiles, period 2024-08-27–2026-04-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (3,137 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (4)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (3,061 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (1 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (3,061 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (71 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
76 tiles, period 2024-01-20–2024-03-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (76 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Landkreis Emsland
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 2,882 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 1,720 km² | 59.7 % |
| Forest | 485 km² | 16.8 % |
| Road transport | 103 km² | 3.6 % |
| Residential land | 99 km² | 3.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 84 km² | 2.9 % |
| Woodland | 71 km² | 2.5 % |
| Water bodies | 62 km² | 2.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 62 km² | 2.2 % |
| Mixed-use area | 58 km² | 2.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 44 km² | 1.5 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 34 km² | 1.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 22 km² | 0.8 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 19 km² | 0.6 % |
| Other uses | 10 km² | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 436 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 214 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 147 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Landkreis Emsland
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 | -2.5 m |
| Mean | 21.6 m |
| Maximum | 96.9 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Emsland
- Andervenne
- Bawinkel
- Beesten
- Bockhorst
- Breddenberg
- Börger
- Dersum
- Dohren
- Dörpen
- Emsbüren
- Esterwegen
- Freren
- Fresenburg
- Geeste
- Gersten
- Groß Berßen
- Handrup
- Haren (Ems)
- Haselünne
- Heede
- Herzlake
- Hilkenbrook
- Hüven
- Klein Berßen
- Kluse
- Lahn
- Langen
- Lathen
- Lehe
- Lengerich
- Lingen (Ems)
- Lorup
- Lähden
- Lünne
- Meppen
- Messingen
- Neubörger
- Neulehe
- Niederlangen
- Oberlangen
- Papenburg
- Rastdorf
- Renkenberge
- Rhede (Ems)
- Salzbergen
- Schapen
- Spahnharrenstätte
- Spelle
- Stavern
- Surwold
- Sustrum
- Sögel
- Thuine
- Twist
- Vrees
- Walchum
- Werlte
- Werpeloh
- Wettrup
- Wippingen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.