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Geodata Merzig-Wadern
Landkreis Merzig-Wadern · Saarland
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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
213,232 parcels, 72,858 buildings, 73,693 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: © LVGL Saarland · Licence dl-de/by-2-0
⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid
649 tiles of 1 km² each (1.41 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (649 tiles, JSON) | 1.41 GB |
🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation
649 tiles of 1 km² each (1.68 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.
| Access | Extent |
|---|---|
| Tile list (649 tiles, JSON) | 1.68 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
214 tiles, period 2023-09-09–2025-05-09.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (214 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
33 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (33 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency
104 tiles.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (104 tiles, JSON) | directly from the state agency |
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Land use in Landkreis Merzig-Wadern
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 556 km².
| Use | Area | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 234 km² | 42.0 % |
| Forest | 219 km² | 39.4 % |
| Residential land | 29 km² | 5.3 % |
| Road transport | 21 km² | 3.8 % |
| Woodland | 13 km² | 2.3 % |
| Industry & commerce | 9 km² | 1.5 % |
| Water bodies | 7 km² | 1.3 % |
| Mixed-use area | 6 km² | 1.2 % |
| Sports, leisure & recreation | 5 km² | 1.0 % |
| Special-purpose area | 478 ha | 0.9 % |
| Paths and tracks | 370 ha | 0.7 % |
| Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps | 161 ha | 0.3 % |
| Rail transport | 120 ha | 0.2 % |
| Wasteland & unvegetated land | 70 ha | 0.1 % |
| Cemetery | 56 ha | 0.1 % |
| Squares | 53 ha | 0.1 % |
The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →
Terrain elevation in Landkreis Merzig-Wadern
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 | 0.0 m |
| Mean | 321.5 m |
| Maximum | 695.4 m |
Municipalities in Landkreis Merzig-Wadern
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Data as of: 2026-09-01.