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Geodata Brilon
Stadt Brilon · Kreis Hochsauerlandkreis · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05958012
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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
26,984 parcels, 24,662 buildings, 13,362 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
276 tiles of 1 km² each (596 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (276 tiles, JSON) | 596 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
299 tiles of 1 km² each (772 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (299 tiles, JSON) | 772 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
299 tiles, period 2024-09-05–2025-09-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (299 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
276 tiles, period 2024-09-20–2025-09-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (276 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
276 tiles, period 2021-02-25–2023-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (276 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Brilon
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 229 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 109 km² | 47.7 % |
| Agriculture | 86 km² | 37.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 6 km² | 2.6 % |
| Residential land | 6 km² | 2.6 % |
| Road transport | 483 ha | 2.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 378 ha | 1.7 % |
| Industry & commerce | 360 ha | 1.6 % |
| Mixed-use area | 249 ha | 1.1 % |
| Woodland | 223 ha | 1.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 164 ha | 0.7 % |
| Water bodies | 78 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 75 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 70 ha | 0.3 % |
| Air transport | 19 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 15 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 14 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Brilon
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 | 273.2 m |
| Mean | 466.1 m |
| Maximum | 828.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.