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Geodata Giesen
Giesen · Landkreis Hildesheim · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03254017
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
7,368 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 (139 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (56 tiles, JSON) | 139 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
56 tiles of 1 km² each (118 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (56 tiles, JSON) | 118 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
14 tiles, period 2025-03-20–2025-03-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (5)
| 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 2022 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (14 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
56 tiles, period 2025-03-20–2025-03-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (56 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2022 (56 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (56 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Giesen
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 34 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 24 km² | 70.3 % |
| Forest | 219 ha | 6.4 % |
| Residential land | 206 ha | 6.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 94 ha | 2.8 % |
| Road transport | 89 ha | 2.6 % |
| Water bodies | 84 ha | 2.5 % |
| Industry & commerce | 66 ha | 1.9 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 58 ha | 1.7 % |
| Woodland | 45 ha | 1.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 39 ha | 1.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 27 ha | 0.8 % |
| Other uses | 24 ha | 0.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 21 ha | 0.6 % |
| Rail transport | 14 ha | 0.4 % |
| Cemetery | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Giesen
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 | 59.0 m |
| Mean | 82.1 m |
| Maximum | 181.3 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.