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Geodata Dortmund
Stadt Dortmund · Kreisfreie Stadt Dortmund · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05913000
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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
177,639 parcels, 229,744 buildings, 61,115 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
332 tiles of 1 km² each (705 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (332 tiles, JSON) | 705 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
332 tiles of 1 km² each (881 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (332 tiles, JSON) | 881 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
332 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (332 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (24)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
332 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (332 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
332 tiles, period 2025-01-13–2025-02-21.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (332 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Dortmund
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 281 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 64 km² | 22.7 % |
| Residential land | 58 km² | 20.6 % |
| Forest | 30 km² | 10.5 % |
| Road transport | 29 km² | 10.4 % |
| Industry & commerce | 27 km² | 9.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 20 km² | 7.2 % |
| Woodland | 11 km² | 4.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 9 km² | 3.2 % |
| Mixed-use area | 8 km² | 2.8 % |
| Rail transport | 7 km² | 2.4 % |
| Cemetery | 396 ha | 1.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 390 ha | 1.4 % |
| Water bodies | 278 ha | 1.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 247 ha | 0.9 % |
| Air transport | 166 ha | 0.6 % |
| Squares | 124 ha | 0.4 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 82 ha | 0.3 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Dortmund
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 | 43.5 m |
| Mean | 102.3 m |
| Maximum | 254.2 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.