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Geodata Dorsten
Stadt Dorsten · Kreis Recklinghausen · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05562012
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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
44,911 parcels, 66,172 buildings, 21,218 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
215 tiles of 1 km² each (445 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (215 tiles, JSON) | 445 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
215 tiles of 1 km² each (552 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (215 tiles, JSON) | 552 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
215 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (215 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (28)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
215 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2026-03-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (215 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
215 tiles, period 2024-12-01–2025-01-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (215 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Dorsten
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 171 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 80 km² | 46.7 % |
| Forest | 45 km² | 26.5 % |
| Residential land | 10 km² | 6.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 7 km² | 3.8 % |
| Road transport | 6 km² | 3.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 493 ha | 2.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 372 ha | 2.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 308 ha | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 226 ha | 1.3 % |
| Woodland | 206 ha | 1.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 185 ha | 1.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 173 ha | 1.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 135 ha | 0.8 % |
| Rail transport | 88 ha | 0.5 % |
| Cemetery | 40 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 26 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 25 ha | 0.1 % |
| Air transport | 12 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Dorsten
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 | 51.2 m |
| Maximum | 135.7 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.