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Geodata Borkum
Stadt Borkum · Landkreis Leer · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03457002
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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
4,138 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
59 tiles of 1 km² each (203 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (59 tiles, JSON) | 203 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
59 tiles of 1 km² each (206 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (59 tiles, JSON) | 206 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
59 tiles, period 2024-09-18–2025-10-31.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (6)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2014 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2017 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (16 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (58 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
59 tiles, period 2024-09-18–2025-10-31.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (3)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (47 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Borkum
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 36 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 16 km² | 45.0 % |
| Agriculture | 8 km² | 21.2 % |
| Residential land | 132 ha | 3.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 94 ha | 2.6 % |
| Air transport | 91 ha | 2.5 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 83 ha | 2.3 % |
| Woodland | 58 ha | 1.6 % |
| Road transport | 56 ha | 1.6 % |
| Water bodies | 52 ha | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 42 ha | 1.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 23 ha | 0.6 % |
| Other uses | 16 ha | 0.5 % |
| Rail transport | 14 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 2 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 2 ha | 0.1 % |
84.8 % of the municipal area is covered; the difference comes from areas without a land-use attribute and from the simplified administrative boundaries. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Borkum
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 | -2.2 m |
| Mean | 1.5 m |
| Maximum | 25.3 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.