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Landkreis Vechta · 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

113,503 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

923 tiles of 1 km² each (2.46 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (923 tiles, JSON)	2.46 GB

🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

923 tiles of 1 km² each (2.66 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (923 tiles, JSON)	2.66 GB

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

256 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2026-03-06.

Access	Note
Download links (256 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

Show historical years individually (8)

Access	Note
Historical year 2014 (228 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2017 (228 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2020 (228 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2021 (28 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2023 (228 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2024 (52 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (228 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2026 (38 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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

923 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2025-04-20.

Access	Note
Download links (923 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

Show historical years individually (4)

Access	Note
Historical year 2021 (106 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2023 (923 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2024 (202 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2025 (923 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Land use in Landkreis Vechta

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 814 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	523 km²	64.3 %
Forest	101 km²	12.4 %
Residential land	38 km²	4.7 %
Road transport	29 km²	3.5 %
Mixed-use area	26 km²	3.2 %
Industry & commerce	21 km²	2.6 %
Heath, bog & marsh	16 km²	1.9 %
Paths and tracks	13 km²	1.6 %
Woodland	13 km²	1.6 %
Water bodies	11 km²	1.3 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	8 km²	1.0 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	6 km²	0.8 %
Other uses	292 ha	0.4 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	250 ha	0.3 %
Squares	92 ha	0.1 %
Rail transport	65 ha	0.1 %
Cemetery	44 ha	0.1 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Landkreis Vechta

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	21.0 m
Mean	42.7 m
Maximum	145.3 m

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Municipalities in Landkreis Vechta

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Data as of: 2026-09-02.