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Kreis Heinsberg · North Rhine-Westphalia
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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
211,286 parcels, 372,805 buildings, 72,063 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
719 tiles of 1 km² each (1.42 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (719 tiles, JSON) | 1.42 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
719 tiles of 1 km² each (1.63 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (719 tiles, JSON) | 1.63 GB |
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
719 tiles, period 2024-03-08–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (719 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
719 tiles, period 2024-03-08–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (719 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
719 tiles, period 2022-02-27–2025-02-07.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (719 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Heinsberg
What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the district area of 628 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 374 km² | 59.5 % |
| Forest | 68 km² | 10.8 % |
| Residential land | 52 km² | 8.2 % |
| Road transport | 24 km² | 3.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 23 km² | 3.6 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 18 km² | 2.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 15 km² | 2.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 14 km² | 2.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 11 km² | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 8 km² | 1.2 % |
| Woodland | 6 km² | 1.0 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 409 ha | 0.7 % |
| Air transport | 379 ha | 0.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 374 ha | 0.6 % |
| Rail transport | 159 ha | 0.3 % |
| Cemetery | 114 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 88 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 70 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Kreis Heinsberg
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 | -106.7 m |
| Mean | 70.9 m |
| Maximum | 197.3 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Heinsberg
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.