diff --git a/server/src/nest/maps/community-overlay.ts b/server/src/nest/maps/community-overlay.ts
index e89b57eab..1c433b76b 100644
--- a/server/src/nest/maps/community-overlay.ts
+++ b/server/src/nest/maps/community-overlay.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { buildOsmDetails } from './maps.helpers';
+import type { TrekCommunityValues } from './trek-community.schema';
 import { communityKeyOf } from './trek-community.service';
-import { trekCommunityByKeys, type TrekCommunityValues } from './trek-places.client';
+import { trekCommunityByKeys } from './trek-places.client';
 import { normalizePlaceWebsite } from '@trek/shared';
 
 /**
diff --git a/server/src/nest/maps/trek-community.schema.ts b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-community.schema.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d92bf1f57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-community.schema.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+/** What the service publishes for a place found elsewhere (Photon, Overpass): the overlay of its own rows. */
+export const trekCommunityValuesSchema = z.object({
+  contact: z
+    .object({ website: z.string().nullish(), phone: z.string().nullish(), email: z.string().nullish() })
+    .nullish(),
+  hours: z.object({ osm: z.string().nullish() }).nullish(),
+  description: z.object({ text: z.string().nullish() }).nullish(),
+  images: z.array(z.object({ url: z.string().optional(), cover: z.boolean().optional() })).nullish(),
+  community: z.object({ version: z.number().int().optional(), fields: z.array(z.string()).optional() }).nullish(),
+});
+
+export type TrekCommunityValues = z.infer<typeof trekCommunityValuesSchema>;
diff --git a/server/src/nest/maps/trek-osm-element.ts b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-osm-element.ts
index a7ed354ca..6d7145d8c 100644
--- a/server/src/nest/maps/trek-osm-element.ts
+++ b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-osm-element.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
-import { getJson, type TrekCommunityValues } from './trek-places.client';
+import { trekCommunityValuesSchema } from './trek-community.schema';
+import { getJson } from './trek-places.client';
+
+import { z } from 'zod';
 
 /** An OSM element as the TREK Places API's details layer answers it: the tags, the point, and the community values. */
-interface TrekOsmElement extends TrekCommunityValues {
-  name: string;
-  lat: number;
-  lng: number;
-  tags: Record<string, string>;
-}
+const trekOsmElementSchema = trekCommunityValuesSchema.extend({
+  name: z.string().nullish(),
+  lat: z.number(),
+  lng: z.number(),
+  tags: z.record(z.string(), z.string()),
+});
+
+type TrekOsmElement = z.infer<typeof trekOsmElementSchema>;
 
 /** The details layer answers in well under a second or not at all; Overpass is the fallback, not this. */
 const TIMEOUT_MS = 3_000;
@@ -19,13 +24,14 @@ const TIMEOUT_MS = 3_000;
  */
 export async function trekOsmElement(osmType: string, osmId: string): Promise<TrekOsmElement | null> {
   try {
-    const body = await getJson<{ place?: TrekOsmElement }>(
+    const body = await getJson<{ place?: unknown } | null>(
       `/v1/osm/${encodeURIComponent(osmType)}/${encodeURIComponent(osmId)}`,
       {},
       { timeoutMs: TIMEOUT_MS },
     );
-    const place = body.place;
-    return place && typeof place.lat === 'number' && typeof place.lng === 'number' && place.tags ? place : null;
+    // An answer outside the published shape is no element: Overpass is asked instead.
+    const place = trekOsmElementSchema.safeParse(body?.place);
+    return place.success ? place.data : null;
   } catch {
     return null;
   }
diff --git a/server/src/nest/maps/trek-places.client.ts b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-places.client.ts
index 81d7ac5e5..aad21469b 100644
--- a/server/src/nest/maps/trek-places.client.ts
+++ b/server/src/nest/maps/trek-places.client.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  */
 import { readEnv } from '../../app-config';
 import { toApiLang } from './maps.helpers';
+import { trekCommunityValuesSchema, type TrekCommunityValues } from './trek-community.schema';
 import { identifiedFetch } from './trek-places.fetch';
 import {
   normalizePlaceWebsite,
@@ -638,14 +639,7 @@ export async function trekPlacesById(gers: string, opts: { lang?: string } = {})
   }
 }
 
-/** What the service publishes for a place found elsewhere (Photon, Overpass): the overlay of its own rows. */
-export interface TrekCommunityValues {
-  contact?: { website?: string | null; phone?: string | null; email?: string | null } | null;
-  hours?: { osm?: string | null } | null;
-  description?: { text?: string | null } | null;
-  images?: { url?: string; cover?: boolean }[] | null;
-  community?: { version?: number; fields?: string[] } | null;
-}
+const communityAnswerSchema = z.object({ places: z.record(z.string(), z.unknown()).optional() });
 
 /**
  * The published community values of places that are no rows of the index, by
@@ -655,10 +649,16 @@ export interface TrekCommunityValues {
 export async function trekCommunityByKeys(keys: string[]): Promise<Record<string, TrekCommunityValues>> {
   if (keys.length === 0) return {};
   try {
-    const body = await getJson<{ places?: Record<string, TrekCommunityValues> }>('/v1/community', {
-      keys: keys.slice(0, 50).join(','),
-    });
-    return body.places ?? {};
+    const body = await getJson<unknown>('/v1/community', { keys: keys.slice(0, 50).join(',') });
+    const places = communityAnswerSchema.safeParse(body);
+    if (!places.success) return {};
+    // A place whose values are not in the published shape is left out, the others still count.
+    const out: Record<string, TrekCommunityValues> = {};
+    for (const [key, raw] of Object.entries(places.data.places ?? {})) {
+      const values = trekCommunityValuesSchema.safeParse(raw);
+      if (values.success) out[key] = values.data;
+    }
+    return out;
   } catch {
     return {};
   }
diff --git a/server/tests/unit/nest/osm.photon.test.ts b/server/tests/unit/nest/osm.photon.test.ts
index b6923398c..3b4fbb4a9 100644
--- a/server/tests/unit/nest/osm.photon.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/unit/nest/osm.photon.test.ts
@@ -300,6 +300,15 @@ it('OSM-PHOTON-009: a lookup by id is Overpass for the tags and the place, Photo
   expect(hosts).toEqual(['places.liketrek.com', 'overpass-api.de', 'photon.liketrek.com']);
 });
 
+it('OSM-PHOTON-022: an answer of the details layer outside its shape is no element, and Overpass is asked', async () => {
+  const place = { name: 'Brandenburger Tor', lat: 52.5163, lng: 13.3777, tags: { level: 2 } };
+  placesReply = () =>
+    new Response(JSON.stringify({ place }), { status: 200, headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' } });
+  const details = await osm.elementDetails('way:518071791', 'en');
+  expect(details).toMatchObject({ name: 'Brandenburg Gate', website: 'https://example.org' });
+  expect(hosts).toEqual(['places.liketrek.com', 'overpass-api.de', 'photon.liketrek.com']);
+});
+
 it("OSM-PHOTON-021: an element in TREK's own details layer asks no Overpass, and carries the community values", async () => {
   placesReply = (url) => {
     expect(url.pathname).toBe('/v1/osm/way/518071791');
diff --git a/server/tests/unit/nest/trek-places.client.test.ts b/server/tests/unit/nest/trek-places.client.test.ts
index c2ed497b6..9f8653825 100644
--- a/server/tests/unit/nest/trek-places.client.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/unit/nest/trek-places.client.test.ts
@@ -1219,6 +1219,14 @@ describe('trekCommunityByKeys', () => {
     expect(url.searchParams.get('keys')).toBe('osm:relation/3389505,osm:node/1');
   });
 
+  it('leaves out a place whose values are not in the published shape, and keeps the others', async () => {
+    const good = { contact: { phone: '+49 30 1' }, community: { version: 1 } };
+    stubFetch({ places: { 'osm:node/1': good, 'osm:node/2': { hours: { osm: 7 } } } });
+    expect(await trekCommunityByKeys(['osm:node/1', 'osm:node/2'])).toEqual({ 'osm:node/1': good });
+    stubFetch({ places: ['not', 'a', 'map'] });
+    expect(await trekCommunityByKeys(['osm:node/1'])).toEqual({});
+  });
+
   it('asks nothing without keys, and a failing service is an empty map', async () => {
     stubFetch({ places: {} });
     expect(await trekCommunityByKeys([])).toEqual({});