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Geodata Velen
Stadt Velen · Kreis Borken · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05554064
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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
10,194 parcels, 11,767 buildings, 6,061 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
95 tiles of 1 km² each (191 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (95 tiles, JSON) | 191 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
95 tiles of 1 km² each (226 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (95 tiles, JSON) | 226 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
95 tiles, period 2026-03-02–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (95 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
95 tiles, period 2026-03-02–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (95 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
95 tiles, period 2024-12-01–2024-12-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (95 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Velen
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 71 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 45 km² | 63.8 % |
| Forest | 13 km² | 19.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 252 ha | 3.6 % |
| Residential land | 229 ha | 3.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 173 ha | 2.4 % |
| Road transport | 172 ha | 2.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 106 ha | 1.5 % |
| Woodland | 98 ha | 1.4 % |
| Water bodies | 62 ha | 0.9 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 56 ha | 0.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 41 ha | 0.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 13 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 5 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Velen
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 | 42.8 m |
| Mean | 59.6 m |
| Maximum | 103.7 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.