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Download geodata for Rhineland-Palatinate

Official open geodata for Rhineland-Palatinate — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP, bDOM and LiDAR — the same data as in the state geoportals, but uniformly processed and ready to download.

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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

6,208,114 parcels, 3,352,828 buildings, 1,858,563 land-use polygons.

Package	Size
Complete package (3 layers)	6.54 GB
Parcels only	3.33 GB
Building footprints only	1.53 GB
Land use only	1.68 GB

Source: © GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeoRP · Licence dl-de/by-2-0

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

20,839 tiles of 1 km² each (44.80 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (20,839 tiles, JSON)	44.80 GB

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

21,964 tiles of 1 km² each (58.77 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Access	Extent
Tile list (21,964 tiles, JSON)	58.77 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

5,265 tiles, period 2022-07-03–2025-09-19.

Access	Note
Download links (5,265 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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

5,266 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (5,266 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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

21,207 tiles.

Access	Note
Download links (21,207 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

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Figures & areas in Rhineland-Palatinate

Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.

Metric	Value
Forest area	807,101 ha
Buildings	3,017,098
Residential land	85,721 ha
of which built-up	21.5 %
Parcel size (median)	744 m²

“of which built-up” is the share of residential land covered by buildings — a measure of building density. The median tells how large a typical parcel is (historical partible inheritance makes parcels in the south-west much smaller than in the north-east).

Land use in Rhineland-Palatinate

What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the state area of 19,849 km².

Use	Area	Share
Forest	8,071 km²	40.7 %
Agriculture	7,961 km²	40.1 %
Residential land	857 km²	4.3 %
Paths and tracks	670 km²	3.4 %
Road transport	522 km²	2.6 %
Woodland	385 km²	1.9 %
Industry & commerce	336 km²	1.7 %
Water bodies	280 km²	1.4 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	237 km²	1.2 %
Mixed-use area	181 km²	0.9 %
Special-purpose area	107 km²	0.5 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	63 km²	0.3 %
Rail transport	52 km²	0.3 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	51 km²	0.3 %
Air transport	30 km²	0.1 %
Cemetery	22 km²	0.1 %
Squares	18 km²	0.1 %
Heath, bog & marsh	12 km²	0.1 %

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

Terrain elevation in Rhineland-Palatinate

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	12.2 m
Mean	318.4 m
Maximum	819.6 m

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Districts in Rhineland-Palatinate

The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.

Map

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Extract-API

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Data as of: 2026-09-01.