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Geodata Schwelm
Stadt Schwelm · Kreis Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05954024
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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
10,924 parcels, 15,896 buildings, 3,383 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
34 tiles of 1 km² each (76 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (34 tiles, JSON) | 76 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
34 tiles of 1 km² each (92 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (34 tiles, JSON) | 92 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
34 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-06-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (34 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (17)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
34 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-06-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (34 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
34 tiles, period 2025-02-21–2025-02-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (34 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Schwelm
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 20 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 6 km² | 31.7 % |
| Forest | 476 ha | 23.3 % |
| Residential land | 335 ha | 16.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 159 ha | 7.8 % |
| Road transport | 144 ha | 7.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 66 ha | 3.2 % |
| Special-purpose area | 55 ha | 2.7 % |
| Woodland | 48 ha | 2.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 46 ha | 2.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 28 ha | 1.4 % |
| Rail transport | 23 ha | 1.1 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 17 ha | 0.8 % |
| Cemetery | 13 ha | 0.6 % |
| Water bodies | 8 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 3 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Schwelm
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 | 176.2 m |
| Mean | 258.8 m |
| Maximum | 357.5 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.