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Download geodata for Saarland
Official open geodata for Saarland — ALKIS, DGM1, DOM1, DOP 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
1,282,213 parcels, 602,249 buildings, 434,452 land-use polygons.
| Package | Size |
|---|---|
| Complete package (3 layers) | 1.42 GB |
| Parcels only | 776 MB |
| Building footprints only | 319 MB |
| Land use only | 327 MB |
Source: © LVGL Saarland · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
2,775 tiles of 1 km² each (6.03 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (2,775 tiles, JSON) | 6.03 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
2,775 tiles of 1 km² each (7.21 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (2,775 tiles, JSON) | 7.21 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
743 tiles, period 2025-04-11–2025-05-11.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (743 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
Show historical years individually (19)
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
6 tiles, period 2025-01-01–2025-01-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (6 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Figures & areas in Saarland
Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Forest area | 90,656 ha |
| Buildings | 597,607 |
| Residential land | 21,169 ha |
| of which built-up | 21.9 % |
| Parcel size (median) | 627 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 Saarland
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 2,571 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 1,017 km² | 39.6 % |
| Forest | 906 km² | 35.2 % |
| Residential land | 212 km² | 8.2 % |
| Road transport | 115 km² | 4.5 % |
| Industry & commerce | 79 km² | 3.1 % |
| Woodland | 52 km² | 2.0 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 35 km² | 1.4 % |
| Mixed-use area | 35 km² | 1.4 % |
| Water bodies | 27 km² | 1.0 % |
| Paths and tracks | 26 km² | 1.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 24 km² | 0.9 % |
| Rail transport | 14 km² | 0.6 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 12 km² | 0.4 % |
| Cemetery | 7 km² | 0.3 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 444 ha | 0.2 % |
| Squares | 393 ha | 0.2 % |
| Air transport | 158 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Saarland
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 | -0.3 m |
| Mean | 309.1 m |
| Maximum | 695.4 m |
Districts in Saarland
The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.
- Landkreis Regionalverband Saarbrücken
- Landkreis Merzig-Wadern
- Landkreis Neunkirchen
- Landkreis Saarlouis
- Landkreis Saarpfalz-Kreis
- Landkreis St. Wendel
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.