Home › North Rhine-Westphalia › Kreis Euskirchen › Mechernich
Geodata Mechernich
Stadt Mechernich · Kreis Euskirchen · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05366028
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
27,434 parcels, 30,838 buildings, 18,364 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
177 tiles of 1 km² each (364 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (177 tiles, JSON) | 364 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
177 tiles of 1 km² each (419 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (177 tiles, JSON) | 419 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
177 tiles, period 2025-03-21–2025-04-03.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (177 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
177 tiles, period 2025-03-21–2025-04-03.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (177 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
177 tiles, period 2021-12-23–2022-02-13.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (177 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show statistics
Land use in Mechernich
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 137 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 74 km² | 54.5 % |
| Forest | 32 km² | 23.6 % |
| Residential land | 7 km² | 4.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 418 ha | 3.1 % |
| Road transport | 409 ha | 3.0 % |
| Woodland | 293 ha | 2.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 280 ha | 2.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 247 ha | 1.8 % |
| Mixed-use area | 161 ha | 1.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 133 ha | 1.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 101 ha | 0.7 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 75 ha | 0.5 % |
| Water bodies | 55 ha | 0.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 51 ha | 0.4 % |
| Rail transport | 26 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 22 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 14 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Mechernich
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 | 178.8 m |
| Mean | 326.6 m |
| Maximum | 525.0 m |
The extract is generated on click and covers the entire municipal area.
Click parcels and buildings directly.
Kreis EuskirchenA 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.