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Geodata Köln
Stadt Köln · Kreisfreie Stadt Köln · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05315000
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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
249,656 parcels, 370,119 buildings, 71,748 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
479 tiles of 1 km² each (956 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (479 tiles, JSON) | 956 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
479 tiles of 1 km² each (1.25 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (479 tiles, JSON) | 1.25 GB |
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
479 tiles, period 2025-04-06–2025-08-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (479 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (33)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
479 tiles, period 2025-04-06–2025-08-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (479 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
479 tiles, period 2022-01-11–2022-02-26.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (479 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Köln
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 405 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 65 km² | 16.0 % |
| Agriculture | 65 km² | 16.0 % |
| Residential land | 63 km² | 15.5 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 42 km² | 10.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 41 km² | 10.2 % |
| Road transport | 41 km² | 10.1 % |
| Water bodies | 19 km² | 4.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 16 km² | 4.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 12 km² | 2.9 % |
| Rail transport | 10 km² | 2.5 % |
| Woodland | 8 km² | 2.1 % |
| Air transport | 6 km² | 1.5 % |
| Paths and tracks | 5 km² | 1.3 % |
| Cemetery | 5 km² | 1.2 % |
| Squares | 264 ha | 0.7 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 155 ha | 0.4 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 153 ha | 0.4 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 152 ha | 0.4 % |
| Shipping | 74 ha | 0.2 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Köln
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 | 6.0 m |
| Mean | 51.7 m |
| Maximum | 135.2 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.