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Geodata Ahlen
Stadt Ahlen · Kreis Warendorf · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05570004
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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
27,107 parcels, 33,804 buildings, 13,388 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
161 tiles of 1 km² each (314 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (161 tiles, JSON) | 314 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
161 tiles of 1 km² each (361 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (161 tiles, JSON) | 361 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
161 tiles, period 2024-09-21–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (161 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
161 tiles, period 2024-09-21–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (161 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
161 tiles, period 2024-03-16–2025-01-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (161 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Ahlen
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 123 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 81 km² | 66.0 % |
| Forest | 11 km² | 8.8 % |
| Residential land | 8 km² | 6.2 % |
| Road transport | 370 ha | 3.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 317 ha | 2.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 302 ha | 2.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 290 ha | 2.4 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 286 ha | 2.3 % |
| Woodland | 258 ha | 2.1 % |
| Water bodies | 174 ha | 1.4 % |
| Special-purpose area | 128 ha | 1.0 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 105 ha | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 59 ha | 0.5 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 27 ha | 0.2 % |
| Cemetery | 23 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 17 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 7 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Ahlen
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 | 57.8 m |
| Mean | 80.4 m |
| Maximum | 168.0 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.