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Kreisfreie Stadt Essen · 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
137,151 parcels, 206,346 buildings, 45,123 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
264 tiles of 1 km² each (577 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (264 tiles, JSON) | 577 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
264 tiles of 1 km² each (723 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (264 tiles, JSON) | 723 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
264 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-06-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (264 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
264 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-06-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (264 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
264 tiles, period 2025-01-13–2025-02-21.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (264 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen
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 210 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential land | 46 km² | 21.9 % |
| Agriculture | 31 km² | 14.7 % |
| Forest | 28 km² | 13.5 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 24 km² | 11.6 % |
| Industry & commerce | 22 km² | 10.6 % |
| Road transport | 22 km² | 10.4 % |
| Special-purpose area | 9 km² | 4.4 % |
| Water bodies | 5 km² | 2.5 % |
| Mixed-use area | 5 km² | 2.4 % |
| Woodland | 495 ha | 2.4 % |
| Cemetery | 341 ha | 1.6 % |
| Rail transport | 329 ha | 1.6 % |
| Paths and tracks | 233 ha | 1.1 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 150 ha | 0.7 % |
| Squares | 103 ha | 0.5 % |
| Air transport | 31 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen
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 | 18.2 m |
| Mean | 86.2 m |
| Maximum | 224.8 m |
Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Essen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.