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Geodata Gelsenkirchen
Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen · 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
69,236 parcels, 107,539 buildings, 16,743 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
138 tiles of 1 km² each (291 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (138 tiles, JSON) | 291 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
138 tiles of 1 km² each (378 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (138 tiles, JSON) | 378 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
138 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (138 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
138 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (138 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
138 tiles, period 2025-01-13–2025-02-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (138 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen
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 105 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential land | 21 km² | 20.0 % |
| Industry & commerce | 16 km² | 14.8 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 12 km² | 11.3 % |
| Road transport | 11 km² | 10.9 % |
| Agriculture | 11 km² | 10.7 % |
| Forest | 10 km² | 9.4 % |
| Woodland | 6 km² | 6.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 351 ha | 3.3 % |
| Special-purpose area | 342 ha | 3.3 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 201 ha | 1.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 197 ha | 1.9 % |
| Cemetery | 170 ha | 1.6 % |
| Rail transport | 160 ha | 1.5 % |
| Water bodies | 147 ha | 1.4 % |
| Paths and tracks | 124 ha | 1.2 % |
| Squares | 77 ha | 0.7 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen
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 | 23.5 m |
| Mean | 50.9 m |
| Maximum | 200.9 m |
Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Gelsenkirchen
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.