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Geodata Hochsauerlandkreis
Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis · North Rhine-Westphalia
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
273,401 parcels, 208,699 buildings, 161,634 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
2,156 tiles of 1 km² each (4.71 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (2,156 tiles, JSON) | 4.71 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
2,290 tiles of 1 km² each (6.03 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (2,290 tiles, JSON) | 6.03 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
2,290 tiles, period 2024-08-23–2025-10-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (2,290 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (49)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
2,156 tiles, period 2024-08-23–2025-10-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (2,156 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
2,156 tiles, period 2020-11-25–2024-03-14.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (2,156 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis
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 1,959 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 1,059 km² | 54.1 % |
| Agriculture | 602 km² | 30.7 % |
| Paths and tracks | 72 km² | 3.7 % |
| Residential land | 56 km² | 2.8 % |
| Road transport | 41 km² | 2.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 26 km² | 1.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 21 km² | 1.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 19 km² | 1.0 % |
| Woodland | 19 km² | 1.0 % |
| Water bodies | 16 km² | 0.8 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 9 km² | 0.5 % |
| Special-purpose area | 6 km² | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 324 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 299 ha | 0.2 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 234 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 181 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 155 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis
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 | 0.0 m |
| Mean | 444.3 m |
| Maximum | 843.5 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis
- Arnsberg
- Bestwig
- Brilon
- Eslohe (Sauerland)
- Hallenberg
- Marsberg
- Medebach
- Meschede
- Olsberg
- Schmallenberg
- Sundern (Sauerland)
- Winterberg
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.