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Geodata Gescher
Stadt Gescher · Kreis Borken · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05554016
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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
10,475 parcels, 16,364 buildings, 6,537 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
Source: © Geobasis NRW · Licence dl-de/zero-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
108 tiles of 1 km² each (214 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (108 tiles, JSON) | 214 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
108 tiles of 1 km² each (247 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (108 tiles, JSON) | 247 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
108 tiles, period 2024-06-29–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (108 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
108 tiles, period 2024-06-29–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (108 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
108 tiles, period 2024-03-10–2024-12-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (108 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Gescher
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 81 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 55 km² | 68.3 % |
| Forest | 9 km² | 10.7 % |
| Residential land | 303 ha | 3.7 % |
| Road transport | 275 ha | 3.4 % |
| Mixed-use area | 275 ha | 3.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 228 ha | 2.8 % |
| Industry & commerce | 165 ha | 2.0 % |
| Woodland | 147 ha | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 102 ha | 1.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 82 ha | 1.0 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 58 ha | 0.7 % |
| Special-purpose area | 36 ha | 0.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 13 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 12 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 6 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Gescher
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 | 46.8 m |
| Mean | 63.6 m |
| Maximum | 84.2 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.