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Geodata Rühen
Rühen · Landkreis Gifhorn · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03151024
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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
4,703 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
56 tiles of 1 km² each (145 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (56 tiles, JSON) | 145 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
57 tiles of 1 km² each (171 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (57 tiles, JSON) | 171 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
18 tiles, period 2024-05-15–2025-03-28.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (18 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical cycles 2014–2019 — all (12 tiles, JSON) | link generates the file on click |
Show historical years individually (10)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2013 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2016 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2019 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (4 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2022 (18 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (4 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Survey cycle 2014-2015 (4 tiles, JSON) | link generates the file on click |
| Survey cycle 2016-2017 (4 tiles, JSON) | link generates the file on click |
| Survey cycle 2018-2019 (4 tiles, JSON) | link generates the file on click |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
53 tiles, period 2025-03-04–2025-03-28.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (53 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2022 (53 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (53 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Rühen
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 31 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 19 km² | 62.7 % |
| Forest | 6 km² | 19.6 % |
| Residential land | 157 ha | 5.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 108 ha | 3.5 % |
| Water bodies | 82 ha | 2.7 % |
| Road transport | 53 ha | 1.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 30 ha | 1.0 % |
| Woodland | 28 ha | 0.9 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 22 ha | 0.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 18 ha | 0.6 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 14 ha | 0.5 % |
| Industry & commerce | 10 ha | 0.3 % |
| Other uses | 10 ha | 0.3 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 2 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 2 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Rühen
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 | 55.8 m |
| Mean | 60.9 m |
| Maximum | 83.1 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.