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Geodata Heinsberg
Stadt Heinsberg · Kreis Heinsberg · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05370016
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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
34,685 parcels, 64,806 buildings, 13,026 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
124 tiles of 1 km² each (242 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (124 tiles, JSON) | 242 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
124 tiles of 1 km² each (270 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (124 tiles, JSON) | 270 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
124 tiles, period 2025-03-06–2025-03-07.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (124 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
124 tiles, period 2025-03-06–2025-03-07.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (124 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
124 tiles, period 2022-02-27–2022-02-28.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (124 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Heinsberg
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 92 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 62 km² | 67.3 % |
| Residential land | 9 km² | 9.6 % |
| Road transport | 406 ha | 4.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 295 ha | 3.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 266 ha | 2.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 241 ha | 2.6 % |
| Mixed-use area | 232 ha | 2.5 % |
| Forest | 189 ha | 2.0 % |
| Water bodies | 159 ha | 1.7 % |
| Woodland | 122 ha | 1.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 73 ha | 0.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 54 ha | 0.6 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 40 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 22 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 19 ha | 0.2 % |
| Rail transport | 10 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in 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 | 26.6 m |
| Mean | 53.8 m |
| Maximum | 102.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.