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Geodata Westerkappeln
Westerkappeln · Kreis Steinfurt · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05566092
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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
11,786 parcels, 10,471 buildings, 6,735 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
110 tiles of 1 km² each (224 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (110 tiles, JSON) | 224 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
110 tiles of 1 km² each (264 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (110 tiles, JSON) | 264 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
117 tiles, period 2024-05-14–2025-03-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (117 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (19)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
128 tiles, period 2024-05-14–2025-03-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (128 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (3)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2023 (18 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2024 (11 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
| Historical year 2025 (21 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
110 tiles, period 2023-11-22–2024-01-27.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (110 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Westerkappeln
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 86 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 56 km² | 65.5 % |
| Forest | 14 km² | 15.8 % |
| Residential land | 296 ha | 3.4 % |
| Mixed-use area | 255 ha | 3.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 247 ha | 2.9 % |
| Road transport | 159 ha | 1.9 % |
| Woodland | 137 ha | 1.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 131 ha | 1.5 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 126 ha | 1.5 % |
| Water bodies | 121 ha | 1.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 98 ha | 1.1 % |
| Rail transport | 22 ha | 0.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 17 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 8 ha | 0.1 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 5 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 5 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Westerkappeln
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 | 69.7 m |
| Maximum | 176.6 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.