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Official open geodata for Saxony — ALKIS, DTM1, DSM1, nDSM1, DOP, Sentinel-2 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

Source: © GeoSN · Licence dl-de/by-2-0

Smaller areas, such as most municipalities, can be downloaded without signing in with a click right here on this page. Large areas such as whole districts and state packages are available with a free account, and scripts or GIS software need an API key. Account and API key →

⛰️ DTM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

5,644 tiles of 4 km² each (49.85 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🏙️ DSM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

5,834 tiles of 4 km² each (57.26 GB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🌳 nDSM1 — Normalised surface model: object height above ground on a 1-metre grid

5,834 tiles of 4 km² (12.17 GB), 1 m resolution, metres above ground, EPSG:25832.

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

4,937 tiles, period 2024-03-19–2025-04-28.

🛰️ Sentinel-2 — Cloud-free satellite mosaics per district and state, multiband extracts from the map

latest monthly mosaic 2026-11.

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📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency

4,921 tiles.

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Figures & areas in Saxony

Calculated from the ALKIS data itself — not taken from official statistics.

Metric	Value
Forest area	494,674 ha
Buildings	2,541,772
Residential land	89,336 ha
of which built-up	20.8 %
Parcel size (median)	938 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 Saxony

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 18,478 km².

Use	Area	Share
Agriculture	9,889 km²	53.5 %
Forest	4,946 km²	26.8 %
Residential land	893 km²	4.8 %
Road transport	482 km²	2.6 %
Water bodies	446 km²	2.4 %
Industry & commerce	379 km²	2.1 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	305 km²	1.7 %
Open-cast mining, mining & spoil heaps	245 km²	1.3 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	223 km²	1.2 %
Paths and tracks	198 km²	1.1 %
Woodland	113 km²	0.6 %
Rail transport	97 km²	0.5 %
Special-purpose area	89 km²	0.5 %
Mixed-use area	78 km²	0.4 %
Heath, bog & marsh	33 km²	0.2 %
Air transport	25 km²	0.1 %
Cemetery	18 km²	0.1 %
Squares	17 km²	0.1 %

The data covers the state area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Saxony

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	-17.5 m
Mean	290.1 m
Maximum	1215.2 m

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Districts in Saxony

The same data, clipped to a single district — generated fresh on click.

• Kreisfreie Stadt Chemnitz
• Landkreis Erzgebirgskreis
• Landkreis Mittelsachsen
• Landkreis Vogtlandkreis
• Landkreis Zwickau
• Kreisfreie Stadt Dresden
• Landkreis Bautzen
• Landkreis Görlitz
• Landkreis Meißen
• Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
• Kreisfreie Stadt Leipzig
• Landkreis Leipzig
• Landkreis Nordsachsen

Data as of: 2026-11-02.