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Kreisfreie Stadt Remscheid · 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

46,581 parcels, 61,936 buildings, 15,104 land-use polygons.

Source: © Geobasis NRW · Licence dl-de/zero-2-0

⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

99 tiles of 1 km² each (223 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

99 tiles of 1 km² each (273 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

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

99 tiles, period 2025-06-20–2025-07-02.

Show historical years individually (17)

Access	Note
Historical year 1956 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1973 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1975 (3 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1978 (1 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1982 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1988 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1994 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1998 (15 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1999 (10 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2003 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2007 (25 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2010 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2013 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2016 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2019 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2021 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2023 (99 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency

99 tiles, period 2025-06-20–2025-07-02.

📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency

99 tiles, period 2020-12-18–2020-12-19.

The extract is generated on click — larger districts take a few seconds.

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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Remscheid

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 75 km².

Use	Area	Share
Forest	23 km²	31.0 %
Agriculture	16 km²	21.5 %
Residential land	12 km²	15.7 %
Industry & commerce	6 km²	7.4 %
Road transport	481 ha	6.5 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	355 ha	4.8 %
Mixed-use area	270 ha	3.6 %
Woodland	172 ha	2.3 %
Special-purpose area	154 ha	2.1 %
Water bodies	106 ha	1.4 %
Paths and tracks	96 ha	1.3 %
Cemetery	51 ha	0.7 %
Rail transport	47 ha	0.6 %
Squares	27 ha	0.4 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	9 ha	0.1 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	8 ha	0.1 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Remscheid

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	84.7 m
Mean	272.7 m
Maximum	379.3 m

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Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Remscheid

• Remscheid

Data as of: 2026-09-02.