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Geodata Wuppertal
Stadt Wuppertal · Kreisfreie Stadt Wuppertal · North Rhine-Westphalia · Municipality key (AGS) 05124000
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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
100,594 parcels, 185,845 buildings, 40,978 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
220 tiles of 1 km² each (498 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (220 tiles, JSON) | 498 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
220 tiles of 1 km² each (605 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (220 tiles, JSON) | 605 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
220 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-07-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (220 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
220 tiles, period 2025-03-08–2025-07-02.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (220 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
220 tiles, period 2020-11-18–2025-02-22.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (220 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Wuppertal
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 168 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 43 km² | 25.6 % |
| Agriculture | 33 km² | 19.4 % |
| Residential land | 29 km² | 17.1 % |
| Road transport | 14 km² | 8.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 12 km² | 7.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 11 km² | 6.7 % |
| Mixed-use area | 5 km² | 3.2 % |
| Woodland | 464 ha | 2.8 % |
| Paths and tracks | 432 ha | 2.6 % |
| Special-purpose area | 410 ha | 2.4 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 208 ha | 1.2 % |
| Water bodies | 179 ha | 1.1 % |
| Rail transport | 170 ha | 1.0 % |
| Cemetery | 142 ha | 0.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 70 ha | 0.4 % |
| Squares | 34 ha | 0.2 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Wuppertal
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 | 44.9 m |
| Mean | 232.6 m |
| Maximum | 350.5 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-02.