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Geodata Vechta
Stadt Vechta · Landkreis Vechta · Lower Saxony · Municipality key (AGS) 03460009
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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
19,328 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
122 tiles of 1 km² each (327 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (122 tiles, JSON) | 327 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
122 tiles of 1 km² each (353 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (122 tiles, JSON) | 353 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
29 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (7)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2014 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2017 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2020 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2021 (7 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (7 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
122 tiles, period 2025-03-07–2025-04-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (122 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (4)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2021 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2023 (122 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (29 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (122 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Vechta
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 88 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 47 km² | 53.5 % |
| Residential land | 7 km² | 8.3 % |
| Forest | 6 km² | 7.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 5 km² | 6.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 489 ha | 5.6 % |
| Road transport | 421 ha | 4.8 % |
| Woodland | 291 ha | 3.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 247 ha | 2.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 205 ha | 2.3 % |
| Paths and tracks | 152 ha | 1.7 % |
| Water bodies | 146 ha | 1.7 % |
| Other uses | 81 ha | 0.9 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 79 ha | 0.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 25 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 24 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 12 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 9 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in 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 | 22.5 m |
| Mean | 38.4 m |
| Maximum | 67.9 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.