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Geodata Forst
Forst · Landkreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) · Rhineland-Palatinate · Municipality key (AGS) 07132034
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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
3,240 parcels, 652 buildings, 744 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-DE / LVermGeoRP · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
13 tiles of 1 km² each (30 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (13 tiles, JSON) | 30 MB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
24 tiles of 1 km² each (66 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (24 tiles, JSON) | 66 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
17 tiles, period 2025-07-01–2025-08-13.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (17 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
17 tiles, 11 with acquisition date, period 2025-07-01–2025-07-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (17 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
24 tiles, 11 with acquisition date, period 2021-02-24–2022-02-12.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (24 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Forst
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 424 ha.
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 203 ha | 48.0 % |
| Agriculture | 155 ha | 36.6 % |
| Residential land | 32 ha | 7.5 % |
| Paths and tracks | 16 ha | 3.7 % |
| Road transport | 13 ha | 3.1 % |
| Mixed-use area | 5 ha | 1.3 % |
| Woodland | 4 ha | 0.9 % |
| Water bodies | 3 ha | 0.7 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 1 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 1 ha | 0.2 % |
| Industry & commerce | 0 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 0 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 0 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the municipal area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Forst
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 | 161.4 m |
| Mean | 249.8 m |
| Maximum | 349.6 m |
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.