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Landkreis Friesland · 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

Source: © GeoBasis-DE/LGLN · Licence CC BY 4.0

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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

735 tiles of 1 km² each (2.50 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

735 tiles of 1 km² each (2.10 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid

735 tiles of 1 km² (268 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.

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

735 tiles, period 2024-07-25–2026-05-25.

Show historical years individually (9)

Access	Note
Historical year 2012 (202 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2014 (49 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2015 (202 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2017 (211 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2020 (211 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2023 (237 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2024 (125 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (105 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2026 (628 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map

latest acquisition 2026-08-14.

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📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency

735 tiles, period 2024-07-25–2026-05-25.

Show historical years individually (4)

Access	Note
Historical year 2023 (801 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2024 (125 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (106 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2026 (628 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Landkreis Friesland

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 618 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	436 km²	70.6 %
Forest	39 km²	6.3 %
Residential land	36 km²	5.8 %
Road transport	18 km²	3.0 %
Water bodies	14 km²	2.3 %
Industry & commerce	12 km²	2.0 %
Mixed-use area	9 km²	1.5 %
Paths and tracks	9 km²	1.4 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	8 km²	1.3 %
Woodland	7 km²	1.2 %
Other uses	6 km²	0.9 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	5 km²	0.8 %
Heath, bog & marsh	417 ha	0.7 %
Rail transport	134 ha	0.2 %
Air transport	95 ha	0.2 %
Squares	88 ha	0.1 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	58 ha	0.1 %
Cemetery	33 ha	0.1 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Landkreis Friesland

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	-2.3 m
Mean	3.5 m
Maximum	28.7 m

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Municipalities in Landkreis Friesland

• Bockhorn
• Jever
• Sande
• Schortens
• Varel
• Wangerland
• Wangerooge
• Zetel

Data as of: 2026-11-02.