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Geodata Varel
Stadt Varel · Landkreis Friesland · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03455026
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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
21,026 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
146 tiles of 1 km² each (486 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (146 tiles, JSON) | 486 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
146 tiles of 1 km² each (409 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (146 tiles, JSON) | 409 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
146 tiles, period 2024-07-25–2026-05-25.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (146 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (8)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2012 (35 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2015 (35 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2017 (35 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (35 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (41 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (24 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (19 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (122 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
146 tiles, period 2024-07-25–2026-05-25.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (146 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (4)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (159 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (24 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (19 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2026 (122 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Varel
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 115 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 77 km² | 66.9 % |
| Forest | 10 km² | 8.9 % |
| Residential land | 8 km² | 7.4 % |
| Road transport | 413 ha | 3.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 307 ha | 2.7 % |
| Water bodies | 211 ha | 1.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 196 ha | 1.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 178 ha | 1.6 % |
| Woodland | 164 ha | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 148 ha | 1.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 80 ha | 0.7 % |
| Other uses | 55 ha | 0.5 % |
| Rail transport | 32 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 20 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 9 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 9 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 6 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Varel
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 | -1.9 m |
| Mean | 4.5 m |
| Maximum | 25.6 m |
The extract is generated on click and covers the entire municipal area.
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.