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Geodata Aachen
Stadt Aachen · Kreis Städteregion Aachen · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05334002
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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
67,553 parcels, 108,916 buildings, 33,623 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
214 tiles of 1 km² each (454 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (214 tiles, JSON) | 454 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
214 tiles of 1 km² each (548 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (214 tiles, JSON) | 548 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
214 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (214 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (16)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
214 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (214 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
214 tiles, period 2022-01-14–2022-03-03.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (214 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Aachen
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 161 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 63 km² | 39.1 % |
| Forest | 31 km² | 19.4 % |
| Residential land | 21 km² | 13.0 % |
| Road transport | 10 km² | 6.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 9 km² | 5.3 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 8 km² | 4.9 % |
| Special-purpose area | 6 km² | 3.7 % |
| Paths and tracks | 480 ha | 3.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 385 ha | 2.4 % |
| Woodland | 296 ha | 1.8 % |
| Cemetery | 145 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 134 ha | 0.8 % |
| Water bodies | 87 ha | 0.5 % |
| Squares | 37 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 34 ha | 0.2 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 20 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in 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 | 114.5 m |
| Mean | 226.5 m |
| Maximum | 427.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.