Field Boundaries for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany

Provides ca. 400,000 official field boundaries from the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany. It has been converted to fiboa from the 2023 Shapefile that was provided by the state.

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Product Details

Visibility: Public
Owner: Field Boundaries for Agriculture (fiboa)
Created: 2 Apr 2024
Last Updated: 15 Aug 2025

Product Contents

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README

This dataset has moved. It is now published, updated and extended as Field blocks for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany in the Harmonized Field Boundary Data catalog. The files here are no longer updated.

Field boundaries for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany

Provides ca. 400.000 official field boundaries from the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany. It has been converted to a fiboa GeoParquet file from a shapefile that was provided by the state.

Source Data Provider: Land Nordrhein-Westfalen / Open.NRW
Converted by: Matthias Mohr
License: Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0
Projection: EPSG:25832 (UTM 32N)

Columns

Property	Data Type	Description
id	string	Numerical internal identifier
inspire:id	string	INSPIRE-compliant identifier. Example: `https://geodaten.nrw.de/id/inspire-lc-dgl/landcoverunit/6467974`
flik	string	Area identifier for field blocks. Example: `DENWLI0552020444`
determination_datetime	datetime	Valid since the given date.
nutz_code	string	Category of land use. A = Arable land, G = Permanent grassland, S = Other land, F = Eligible in the 2nd pillar, K = Permanent Crops
nutz_txt	string	Textual representation of nutz_code in German (`Ackerland`, `Dauergrünland`, `Sonstige Flächen`, `Förderfähig 2. Säule`, `Dauerkultur`)
area	number	Area in ha

Lineage

Data downloaded on 2024-04-12 from https://www.opengeodata.nrw.de/produkte/umwelt_klima/bodennutzung/landwirtschaft/LFK-AKTI_EPSG25832_Shape.zip.
Converted to GeoParquet using fiboa-cli, version 0.3.2-dev.

README

This dataset has moved. It is now published, updated and extended as Field blocks for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany in the Harmonized Field Boundary Data catalog. The files here are no longer updated.

Field boundaries for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany

Source Data Provider: Land Nordrhein-Westfalen / Open.NRW
Converted by: Matthias Mohr
License: Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0
Projection: EPSG:25832 (UTM 32N)

Columns

Property	Data Type	Description
id	string	Numerical internal identifier
inspire:id	string	INSPIRE-compliant identifier. Example: `https://geodaten.nrw.de/id/inspire-lc-dgl/landcoverunit/6467974`
flik	string	Area identifier for field blocks. Example: `DENWLI0552020444`
determination_datetime	datetime	Valid since the given date.
nutz_code	string	Category of land use. A = Arable land, G = Permanent grassland, S = Other land, F = Eligible in the 2nd pillar, K = Permanent Crops
nutz_txt	string	Textual representation of nutz_code in German (`Ackerland`, `Dauergrünland`, `Sonstige Flächen`, `Förderfähig 2. Säule`, `Dauerkultur`)
area	number	Area in ha

Lineage

Data downloaded on 2024-04-12 from https://www.opengeodata.nrw.de/produkte/umwelt_klima/bodennutzung/landwirtschaft/LFK-AKTI_EPSG25832_Shape.zip.
Converted to GeoParquet using fiboa-cli, version 0.3.2-dev.