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Landkreis Hildesheim · 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

1,344 tiles of 1 km² each (3.37 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

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

1,344 tiles of 1 km² each (3.18 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

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

1,344 tiles of 1 km² (747 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

362 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2025-04-12.

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Access	Note
Historical year 2013 (362 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2016 (362 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2019 (362 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2022 (362 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (362 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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

latest acquisition 2026-10-05.

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

1,344 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2025-04-12.

Show historical years individually (2)

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Historical year 2022 (1,344 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (1,344 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Landkreis Hildesheim

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 1,207 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	697 km²	57.8 %
Forest	285 km²	23.6 %
Residential land	57 km²	4.7 %
Paths and tracks	35 km²	2.9 %
Road transport	32 km²	2.7 %
Industry & commerce	22 km²	1.8 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	18 km²	1.5 %
Water bodies	17 km²	1.4 %
Woodland	12 km²	1.0 %
Mixed-use area	8 km²	0.7 %
Rail transport	6 km²	0.5 %
Other uses	5 km²	0.4 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	488 ha	0.4 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	287 ha	0.2 %
Cemetery	170 ha	0.1 %
Squares	117 ha	0.1 %

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Terrain elevation in Landkreis Hildesheim

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	56.1 m
Mean	144.5 m
Maximum	481.1 m

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Municipalities in Landkreis Hildesheim

• Alfeld (Leine)
• Algermissen
• Bad Salzdetfurth
• Bockenem
• Diekholzen
• Duingen
• Eime
• Elze
• Freden (Leine)
• Giesen
• Gronau (Leine)
• Harsum
• Hildesheim
• Holle
• Lamspringe
• Nordstemmen
• Sarstedt
• Schellerten
• Sibbesse
• Söhlde

Data as of: 2026-11-02.