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Geodata Münster
Stadt Münster · Kreisfreie Stadt Münster · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05515000
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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
101,174 parcels, 138,811 buildings, 28,708 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
354 tiles of 1 km² each (701 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (354 tiles, JSON) | 701 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
354 tiles of 1 km² each (870 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (354 tiles, JSON) | 870 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
354 tiles, period 2024-05-15–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (354 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (29)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
354 tiles, period 2024-05-15–2026-03-05.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (354 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
354 tiles, period 2024-01-20–2024-03-16.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (354 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Münster
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 303 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 131 km² | 43.1 % |
| Forest | 50 km² | 16.6 % |
| Residential land | 32 km² | 10.6 % |
| Road transport | 18 km² | 5.9 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 13 km² | 4.1 % |
| Industry & commerce | 12 km² | 3.9 % |
| Mixed-use area | 9 km² | 3.0 % |
| Woodland | 9 km² | 2.9 % |
| Special-purpose area | 8 km² | 2.7 % |
| Water bodies | 6 km² | 2.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 5 km² | 1.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 414 ha | 1.4 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 319 ha | 1.1 % |
| Rail transport | 207 ha | 0.7 % |
| Squares | 76 ha | 0.3 % |
| Cemetery | 54 ha | 0.2 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Münster
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 | 38.1 m |
| Mean | 58.3 m |
| Maximum | 101.8 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.