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Geodata Würselen
Stadt Würselen · Kreis Städteregion Aachen · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05334036
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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
18,732 parcels, 27,564 buildings, 7,694 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
59 tiles of 1 km² each (121 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (59 tiles, JSON) | 121 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
59 tiles of 1 km² each (140 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (59 tiles, JSON) | 140 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
59 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (15)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
59 tiles, period 2025-03-05–2025-03-08.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
59 tiles, period 2022-01-14–2022-03-03.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (59 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Würselen
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 34 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 18 km² | 52.9 % |
| Residential land | 446 ha | 13.0 % |
| Road transport | 182 ha | 5.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 173 ha | 5.0 % |
| Forest | 160 ha | 4.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 116 ha | 3.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 111 ha | 3.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 110 ha | 3.2 % |
| Woodland | 69 ha | 2.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 65 ha | 1.9 % |
| Air transport | 38 ha | 1.1 % |
| Cemetery | 17 ha | 0.5 % |
| Water bodies | 12 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 9 ha | 0.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 8 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 7 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 4 ha | 0.1 % |
97.5 % of the municipal area is covered; the difference comes from areas without a land-use attribute and from the simplified administrative boundaries. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Würselen
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 | 105.2 m |
| Mean | 177.6 m |
| Maximum | 239.8 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.