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Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum · 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
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand · with a free account |
| Parcels only | on demand · with a free account |
| Building footprints only | on demand · with a free account |
| Land use only | on demand · with a free account |
Source: © Geobasis NRW · Licence dl-de/zero-2-0
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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
184 tiles of 1 km² each (397 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (184 tiles, JSON) | 397 MB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
184 tiles of 1 km² each (501 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (184 tiles, JSON) | 501 MB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
184 tiles of 1 km² (135 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (184 tiles, JSON) | 135 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
184 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (184 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (21)
🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map
latest acquisition 2026-10-30.
| Access | Source |
|---|---|
| Time series since 2015 (JSON) | directly from LGLN geoLabs |
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📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
184 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (184 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
184 tiles, period 2025-01-13–2025-02-21.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (184 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum
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 146 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential land | 35 km² | 24.0 % |
| Agriculture | 23 km² | 15.6 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 17 km² | 11.6 % |
| Road transport | 16 km² | 11.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 15 km² | 10.5 % |
| Forest | 14 km² | 9.9 % |
| Special-purpose area | 6 km² | 4.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 413 ha | 2.8 % |
| Woodland | 391 ha | 2.7 % |
| Rail transport | 272 ha | 1.9 % |
| Cemetery | 262 ha | 1.8 % |
| Water bodies | 141 ha | 1.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 134 ha | 0.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 118 ha | 0.8 % |
| Squares | 71 ha | 0.5 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 37 ha | 0.3 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 38.2 m |
| Mean | 101.1 m |
| Maximum | 196.5 m |
Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Bochum
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.