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Geodata Erkelenz
Stadt Erkelenz · Kreis Heinsberg · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05370004
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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
37,993 parcels, 62,279 buildings, 11,314 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
153 tiles of 1 km² each (297 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (153 tiles, JSON) | 297 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
153 tiles of 1 km² each (320 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (153 tiles, JSON) | 320 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
153 tiles, period 2025-03-06–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (153 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (26)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
153 tiles, period 2025-03-06–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (153 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
153 tiles, period 2022-02-27–2022-03-18.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (153 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Erkelenz
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 117 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 75 km² | 64.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 14 km² | 12.0 % |
| Residential land | 9 km² | 7.3 % |
| Road transport | 450 ha | 3.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 343 ha | 2.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 255 ha | 2.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 224 ha | 1.9 % |
| Forest | 200 ha | 1.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 190 ha | 1.6 % |
| Woodland | 85 ha | 0.7 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 72 ha | 0.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 52 ha | 0.4 % |
| Water bodies | 34 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 20 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 19 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 13 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Erkelenz
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 | 81.8 m |
| Maximum | 116.4 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.