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Geodata Elben
Elben · Landkreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) · Rhineland-Palatinate · Municipality key (AGS) 07132024
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
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|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | on demand |
| Parcels only | on demand |
| Building footprints only | on demand |
| Land use only | on demand |
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⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
8 tiles of 1 km² each (18 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (8 tiles, JSON) | 18 MB |
🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
8 tiles of 1 km² each (21 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (8 tiles, JSON) | 21 MB |
🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid
8 tiles of 1 km² (6 MB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (8 tiles, JSON) | 6 MB |
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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
6 tiles, period 2025-08-13–2025-08-13.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (6 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📷 iDSM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
6 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (6 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
8 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (8 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Elben
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 238 ha.
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 127 ha | 53.3 % |
| Agriculture | 61 ha | 25.7 % |
| Residential land | 13 ha | 5.5 % |
| Road transport | 9 ha | 3.9 % |
| Woodland | 9 ha | 3.6 % |
| Paths and tracks | 8 ha | 3.4 % |
| Rail transport | 7 ha | 2.8 % |
| Industry & commerce | 3 ha | 1.1 % |
| Water bodies | 2 ha | 1.0 % |
| Mixed-use area | 2 ha | 0.8 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 1 ha | 0.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 0 ha | 0.1 % |
| Special-purpose area | 0 ha | 0.1 % |
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Terrain elevation in Elben
Calculated from the digital terrain model (DTM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).
| Metric | Elevation above sea level (NHN) |
|---|---|
| Minimum | 236.5 m |
| Mean | 344.9 m |
| Maximum | 469.1 m |
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Data as of: 2026-11-02.