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Kreis Herford · 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
130,543 parcels, 239,117 buildings, 115,980 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
534 tiles of 1 km² each (1.11 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (534 tiles, JSON) | 1.11 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
534 tiles of 1 km² each (1.28 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (534 tiles, JSON) | 1.28 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
543 tiles, period 2017-03-24–2025-03-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (543 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (27)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
577 tiles, period 2024-03-03–2025-03-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (577 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (2)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (43 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (43 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
534 tiles, period 2022-12-14–2023-02-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (534 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Herford
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 450 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 251 km² | 55.8 % |
| Residential land | 54 km² | 12.1 % |
| Forest | 34 km² | 7.5 % |
| Road transport | 21 km² | 4.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 18 km² | 3.9 % |
| Woodland | 15 km² | 3.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 15 km² | 3.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 15 km² | 3.2 % |
| Paths and tracks | 13 km² | 2.9 % |
| Water bodies | 479 ha | 1.1 % |
| Special-purpose area | 385 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 229 ha | 0.5 % |
| Cemetery | 145 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 110 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 91 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 48 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 24 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreis Herford
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 | 43.6 m |
| Mean | 109.5 m |
| Maximum | 342.1 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Herford
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.