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Geodata Herford
Stadt Herford · Kreis Herford · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05758012
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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
26,348 parcels, 49,814 buildings, 22,945 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
111 tiles of 1 km² each (234 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (111 tiles, JSON) | 234 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
111 tiles of 1 km² each (276 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (111 tiles, JSON) | 276 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
111 tiles, period 2024-03-03–2024-08-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (111 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (23)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
111 tiles, period 2024-03-03–2024-08-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (111 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
111 tiles, period 2022-12-14–2023-02-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (111 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Herford
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 79 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 37 km² | 47.0 % |
| Residential land | 11 km² | 14.2 % |
| Forest | 5 km² | 6.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 471 ha | 6.0 % |
| Road transport | 427 ha | 5.4 % |
| Woodland | 417 ha | 5.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 328 ha | 4.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 291 ha | 3.7 % |
| Paths and tracks | 239 ha | 3.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 127 ha | 1.6 % |
| Water bodies | 71 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 48 ha | 0.6 % |
| Cemetery | 45 ha | 0.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 24 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 24 ha | 0.3 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 8 ha | 0.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 7 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in 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 | 55.1 m |
| Mean | 106.6 m |
| Maximum | 240.3 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.