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Kreis Steinfurt · 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
304,642 parcels, 401,578 buildings, 214,075 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
1,944 tiles of 1 km² each (3.83 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,944 tiles, JSON) | 3.83 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
1,944 tiles of 1 km² each (4.50 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (1,944 tiles, JSON) | 4.50 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
2,016 tiles, period 2024-05-14–2026-02-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (2,016 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (43)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
2,202 tiles, period 2024-05-14–2026-02-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (2,202 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (3)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (258 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (42 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (266 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
1,944 tiles, period 2023-11-22–2024-03-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (1,944 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreis Steinfurt
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 1,795 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 1,114 km² | 62.1 % |
| Forest | 252 km² | 14.1 % |
| Residential land | 95 km² | 5.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 51 km² | 2.9 % |
| Road transport | 49 km² | 2.7 % |
| Woodland | 47 km² | 2.6 % |
| Paths and tracks | 44 km² | 2.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 41 km² | 2.3 % |
| Water bodies | 28 km² | 1.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 25 km² | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 21 km² | 1.2 % |
| Special-purpose area | 9 km² | 0.5 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 471 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 434 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 267 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 221 ha | 0.1 % |
| Air transport | 200 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 180 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Kreis Steinfurt
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 | 13.7 m |
| Mean | 59.4 m |
| Maximum | 240.7 m |
Municipalities in Kreis Steinfurt
- Altenberge
- Emsdetten
- Greven
- Hopsten
- Horstmar
- Hörstel
- Ibbenbüren
- Ladbergen
- Laer
- Lengerich
- Lienen
- Lotte
- Metelen
- Mettingen
- Neuenkirchen
- Nordwalde
- Ochtrup
- Recke
- Rheine
- Saerbeck
- Steinfurt
- Tecklenburg
- Westerkappeln
- Wettringen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.