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Geodata Mönchengladbach
Stadt Mönchengladbach · Kreisfreie Stadt Mönchengladbach · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05116000
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
108,792 parcels, 170,211 buildings, 26,678 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
216 tiles of 1 km² each (428 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (216 tiles, JSON) | 428 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
216 tiles of 1 km² each (524 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (216 tiles, JSON) | 524 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
216 tiles, period 2024-03-08–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (216 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (27)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
216 tiles, period 2024-03-08–2025-04-06.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (216 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
216 tiles, period 2022-02-27–2025-02-07.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (216 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Mönchengladbach
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 170 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 61 km² | 35.9 % |
| Residential land | 29 km² | 16.8 % |
| Forest | 17 km² | 9.8 % |
| Road transport | 14 km² | 8.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 11 km² | 6.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 10 km² | 5.8 % |
| Special-purpose area | 9 km² | 5.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 5 km² | 2.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 326 ha | 1.9 % |
| Woodland | 323 ha | 1.9 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 177 ha | 1.0 % |
| Cemetery | 167 ha | 1.0 % |
| Rail transport | 160 ha | 0.9 % |
| Air transport | 112 ha | 0.7 % |
| Squares | 106 ha | 0.6 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 87 ha | 0.5 % |
| Water bodies | 66 ha | 0.4 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Mönchengladbach
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 | -106.7 m |
| Mean | 64.2 m |
| Maximum | 130.9 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.