Schwarzplan.eu — a map library for architecture and urban design
Figure Ground Plans & Site Plans for Architects and Urban Planners
Drawn for you, not traced by you: no hunting for geodata, no clipping, no redrawing in QGIS. Hundreds of figure-ground plans, site plans and maps — true to scale, in layers, instant download.
Plot & cadastre
Cadastral map & parcel sheet
For buying land, early planning and the first talk with the building authority: view boundaries for free and take every measurement of your plot as a PDF.
- Parcel boundaries and numbers from the official land register
- Search by address or parcel, right on the map
- Parcel sheet with boundary lengths, angles and area
Free
View cadastral map
Enter an address and read parcel boundaries, parcel number, district and plot on the map. No sign-up.
Open cadastral mapPDF · 9 €
Parcel sheet
Your plot on one sheet: boundary lengths, angles, area, neighbouring parcels and standard land value. A4 to A2, instant PDF.
Select a parcelWith project · 15 €
Plan setback areas
Draw a garden shed, carport, garage, pool, extension or house and put its setback areas straight on the sheet.
Plan a projectBoundaries are for orientation. For planning applications, boundary disputes or notary appointments, the official extract from the land registry office is what counts.
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Plans available
ALL-ACCESS
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FORMAT
FORMAT
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53 free plans
Bundles
Prints
Figure-ground plans as canvas, poster and wallpaper.
Overview
Which plan fits?
| Product | For what | Contents | Price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figure-ground & site plan | Design, competitions, presentations | One city as a vector file, buildings, streets, green space and water on layers | usually 10 € | Cities → |
| Country bundle | Several cities, comparative studies | All plans of one country | from 29 € | Bundles → |
| All-Access | Offices, teaching | All city plans, lifetime access | 99 € one-off | Details → |
| Contour lines | Topography, model making | Contour lines at 10 m and 25 m intervals as PDF | 29 € | View → |
| Cadastral map | Checking boundaries, buying land | Parcel boundaries and numbers on the map | free | Open → |
| Parcel sheet | Early planning, talks with the building authority | Boundary lengths, angles, area, standard land value, A4 to A2 | 9 € | Parcel → |
All prices include VAT. A planning application in Germany still requires an official site plan from a licensed surveyor or the land registry office.
Basics
What a figure-ground plan is — and what you get here
A figure-ground plan reduces a city to its essentials: built fabric in black, everything else white. No labels, no colour, no symbols. What remains is the figure of the urban plan — block edges, courtyards, rows, freestanding buildings. The convention goes back to Giambattista Nolli's 1748 map of Rome and is still the fastest way to compare the density, grain and scale of two places.
You need one wherever a design has to show its context: in a competition entry, in pre-assessment, in a portfolio, in a lecture. A site plan does the same one scale level down — with street space, greenery and water, as the immediate context for your own plot.
The plans in this catalogue are built from OpenStreetMap data that we clean editorially and rework by hand. That is the difference from a raw export: buildings are closed polygons, streets, water, greenery and railways sit on separate layers, gaps and duplicate geometry are gone. A generator export looks similar at first glance and fails in CAD at the first boolean operation. The catalogue currently covers 335 cities in 48 countries; 53 plans are free and can be checked before you buy.
Official data is covered by a separate tool: the cadastral map shows parcel boundaries and parcel numbers from the official land register — free and without sign-up. For a building application itself, an official site plan from a licensed surveyor or the cadastral office remains mandatory; no catalogue plan is meant to replace it.
Every purchase includes commercial use: competitions, client projects, presentations, publications. The download starts immediately after payment — no account, no subscription.
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