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Geodata Meppen
Stadt Meppen · Landkreis Emsland · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03454035
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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
| 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
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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
240 tiles of 1 km² each (672 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (240 tiles, JSON) | 672 MB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
240 tiles of 1 km² each (708 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (240 tiles, JSON) | 708 MB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
240 tiles of 1 km² (131 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (240 tiles, JSON) | 131 MB |
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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
73 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-04-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (5)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2014 (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2017 (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (73 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
240 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-04-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (240 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (240 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (240 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Meppen
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 188 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 97 km² | 51.6 % |
| Forest | 40 km² | 21.4 % |
| Residential land | 9 km² | 4.8 % |
| Road transport | 8 km² | 4.3 % |
| Woodland | 5 km² | 2.9 % |
| Water bodies | 483 ha | 2.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 465 ha | 2.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 356 ha | 1.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 353 ha | 1.9 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 314 ha | 1.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 306 ha | 1.6 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 238 ha | 1.3 % |
| Other uses | 234 ha | 1.2 % |
| Rail transport | 60 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 35 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 14 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Meppen
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 7.5 m |
| Mean | 17.3 m |
| Maximum | 49.5 m |
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.