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Geodata Hildesheim
Stadt Hildesheim · Landkreis Hildesheim · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03254021
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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
34,256 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
121 tiles of 1 km² each (306 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (121 tiles, JSON) | 306 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
121 tiles of 1 km² each (297 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (121 tiles, JSON) | 297 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
30 tiles, period 2025-03-20–2025-03-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (5)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2013 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2016 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2019 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2022 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (30 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
121 tiles, period 2025-03-20–2025-03-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (121 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2022 (121 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (121 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Hildesheim
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 92 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 35 km² | 38.0 % |
| Forest | 18 km² | 19.9 % |
| Residential land | 11 km² | 12.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 7 km² | 7.3 % |
| Road transport | 6 km² | 6.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 6 km² | 6.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 321 ha | 3.5 % |
| Other uses | 225 ha | 2.4 % |
| Water bodies | 109 ha | 1.2 % |
| Woodland | 84 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 82 ha | 0.9 % |
| Cemetery | 62 ha | 0.7 % |
| Squares | 35 ha | 0.4 % |
| Mixed-use area | 34 ha | 0.4 % |
| Air transport | 32 ha | 0.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 30 ha | 0.3 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Hildesheim
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 | 68.9 m |
| Mean | 121.3 m |
| Maximum | 280.4 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.