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Geodata Städteregion Aachen
Kreis Städteregion Aachen · North Rhine-Westphalia
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
243,849 parcels, 369,002 buildings, 123,159 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
839 tiles of 1 km² each (1.75 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (839 tiles, JSON) | 1.75 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
839 tiles of 1 km² each (2.14 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (839 tiles, JSON) | 2.14 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
839 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (839 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
839 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (839 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
839 tiles, period 2021-12-21–2022-03-03.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (839 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Städteregion Aachen
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 707 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 263 km² | 37.2 % |
| Forest | 215 km² | 30.4 % |
| Residential land | 71 km² | 10.1 % |
| Road transport | 28 km² | 3.9 % |
| Industry & commerce | 25 km² | 3.5 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 20 km² | 2.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 19 km² | 2.7 % |
| Woodland | 14 km² | 2.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 13 km² | 1.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 11 km² | 1.5 % |
| Water bodies | 9 km² | 1.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 402 ha | 0.6 % |
| Rail transport | 330 ha | 0.5 % |
| Cemetery | 301 ha | 0.4 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 291 ha | 0.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 287 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 116 ha | 0.2 % |
| Air transport | 47 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreis Städteregion Aachen
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 | 76.1 m |
| Mean | 306.4 m |
| Maximum | 658.6 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Städteregion Aachen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.