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Kreisfreie Stadt Herne · North Rhine-Westphalia
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
46,255 parcels, 76,393 buildings, 9,694 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
74 tiles of 1 km² each (157 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (74 tiles, JSON) | 157 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
74 tiles of 1 km² each (203 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (74 tiles, JSON) | 203 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
74 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (74 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
74 tiles, period 2024-04-06–2025-03-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (74 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
74 tiles, period 2025-01-13–2025-02-19.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (74 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Herne
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 51 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Residential land | 14 km² | 27.2 % |
| Road transport | 6 km² | 12.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 6 km² | 11.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 5 km² | 9.9 % |
| Forest | 452 ha | 8.8 % |
| Agriculture | 405 ha | 7.9 % |
| Woodland | 292 ha | 5.7 % |
| Special-purpose area | 199 ha | 3.9 % |
| Rail transport | 169 ha | 3.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 125 ha | 2.4 % |
| Water bodies | 102 ha | 2.0 % |
| Cemetery | 81 ha | 1.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 65 ha | 1.3 % |
| Paths and tracks | 49 ha | 1.0 % |
| Squares | 29 ha | 0.6 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 16 ha | 0.3 % |
| Shipping | 5 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Herne
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 | 29.6 m |
| Mean | 60.9 m |
| Maximum | 137.8 m |
Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Herne
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.