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Geodata Birkenfeld
Landkreis Birkenfeld · Rhineland-Palatinate
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🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use
169,761 parcels, 74,276 buildings, 62,711 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
869 tiles of 1 km² each (1.87 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (869 tiles, JSON) | 1.87 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
869 tiles of 1 km² each (2.28 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (869 tiles, JSON) | 2.28 GB |
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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
262 tiles, period 2023-09-09–2025-08-10.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (262 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (19)
📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency
241 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (241 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
869 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (869 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Landkreis Birkenfeld
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 777 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Forest | 411 km² | 53.0 % |
| Agriculture | 245 km² | 31.5 % |
| Residential land | 26 km² | 3.3 % |
| Paths and tracks | 20 km² | 2.6 % |
| Road transport | 17 km² | 2.1 % |
| Woodland | 16 km² | 2.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Industry & commerce | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Special-purpose area | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 7 km² | 0.9 % |
| Mixed-use area | 488 ha | 0.6 % |
| Water bodies | 444 ha | 0.6 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 164 ha | 0.2 % |
| Rail transport | 102 ha | 0.1 % |
| Heath, bog & marsh | 96 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 80 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 50 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Landkreis Birkenfeld
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 | 187.1 m |
| Mean | 456.1 m |
| Maximum | 819.6 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Birkenfeld
- Abentheuer
- Achtelsbach
- Allenbach
- Asbach
- Baumholder
- Bergen
- Berglangenbach
- Berschweiler bei Baumholder
- Berschweiler bei Kirn
- Birkenfeld
- Bollenbach
- Breitenthal
- Bruchweiler
- Brücken
- Buhlenberg
- Bundenbach
- Börfink
- Dambach
- Dickesbach
- Dienstweiler
- Eckersweiler
- Elchweiler
- Ellenberg
- Ellweiler
- Fischbach
- Fohren-Linden
- Frauenberg
- Gerach
- Gimbweiler
- Gollenberg
- Griebelschied
- Gösenroth
- Hahnweiler
- Hattgenstein
- Hausen
- Heimbach
- Hellertshausen
- Herborn
- Herrstein
- Hettenrodt
- Hintertiefenbach
- Hoppstädten-Weiersbach
- Horbruch
- Hottenbach
- Idar-Oberstein
- Kempfeld
- Kirschweiler
- Kronweiler
- Krummenau
- Langweiler
- Leisel
- Leitzweiler
- Mackenrodt
- Meckenbach
- Mettweiler
- Mittelreidenbach
- Mörschied
- Niederbrombach
- Niederhambach
- Niederhosenbach
- Niederwörresbach
- Nohen
- Oberbrombach
- Oberhambach
- Oberhosenbach
- Oberkirn
- Oberreidenbach
- Oberwörresbach
- Reichenbach
- Rhaunen
- Rimsberg
- Rinzenberg
- Rohrbach
- Ruschberg
- Rötsweiler-Nockenthal
- Rückweiler
- Schauren
- Schmidthachenbach
- Schmißberg
- Schwerbach
- Schwollen
- Sensweiler
- Sien
- Sienhachenbach
- Siesbach
- Sonnenberg-Winnenberg
- Sonnschied
- Stipshausen
- Sulzbach
- Veitsrodt
- Vollmersbach
- Weiden
- Weitersbach
- Wickenrodt
- Wilzenberg-Hußweiler
- Wirschweiler
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.