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Geodata Recklinghausen
Kreis Recklinghausen · 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
285,210 parcels, 454,003 buildings, 109,060 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
872 tiles of 1 km² each (1.82 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (872 tiles, JSON) | 1.82 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
872 tiles of 1 km² each (2.29 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (872 tiles, JSON) | 2.29 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
872 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (872 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
872 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (872 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
872 tiles, period 2024-03-10–2025-01-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (872 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Recklinghausen
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 761 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 261 km² | 34.4 % |
| Forest | 195 km² | 25.7 % |
| Residential land | 80 km² | 10.5 % |
| Road transport | 42 km² | 5.5 % |
| Industry & commerce | 39 km² | 5.1 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 31 km² | 4.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 20 km² | 2.6 % |
| Water bodies | 19 km² | 2.5 % |
| Woodland | 17 km² | 2.3 % |
| Paths and tracks | 14 km² | 1.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 12 km² | 1.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 12 km² | 1.5 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 472 ha | 0.6 % |
| Cemetery | 352 ha | 0.5 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 197 ha | 0.3 % |
| Squares | 176 ha | 0.2 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreis Recklinghausen
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 | 20.3 m |
| Mean | 60.1 m |
| Maximum | 156.8 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Recklinghausen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.