Home › North Rhine-Westphalia › Kreis Düren › Merzenich
Geodata Merzenich
Merzenich · Kreis Düren · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05358040
Processed by us
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
7,666 parcels, 10,922 buildings, 3,141 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
57 tiles of 1 km² each (112 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (57 tiles, JSON) | 112 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
57 tiles of 1 km² each (124 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (57 tiles, JSON) | 124 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
57 tiles, period 2025-03-16–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (57 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (21)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
57 tiles, period 2025-03-16–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (57 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
57 tiles, period 2022-02-13–2022-02-13.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (57 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show statistics
Land use in Merzenich
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 38 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 24 km² | 63.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 385 ha | 10.2 % |
| Forest | 313 ha | 8.3 % |
| Residential land | 190 ha | 5.0 % |
| Road transport | 116 ha | 3.1 % |
| Paths and tracks | 96 ha | 2.5 % |
| Woodland | 73 ha | 1.9 % |
| Industry & commerce | 53 ha | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 46 ha | 1.2 % |
| Rail transport | 40 ha | 1.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 32 ha | 0.8 % |
| Water bodies | 17 ha | 0.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 11 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 8 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
| Air transport | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Merzenich
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 | -160.6 m |
| Mean | 110.6 m |
| Maximum | 144.8 m |
The extract is generated on click and covers the entire municipal area.
Click parcels and buildings directly.
Kreis DürenA larger area as a package.
North Rhine-WestphaliaThe whole state as a ready-made package.
Extract-APICustom extracts and other formats via the API.
Data as of: 2026-09-02.