Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Floodplain in Germany 2021 (WFS)

The download service “Flussauen in Deutschland 2021” provides the distribution and size of river floodplains, the floodplain status and the loss of floodplains, as well as the use and protection status of river floodplains. The data are the results of a BfN-funded research and development project, which is used as a floodplain status report 2021 (BMU & BfN 2021) as well as national overview maps on the loss of flood zones and floodplain status (BfN 2021). More detailed information on the methods used are as BfN script 591 (Günther-Diringer et al. 2021) was published. The results of the floodplain state report refer to the floodplains of 79 rivers with a catchment area of more than 1 000 km² excluding tidal areas. In addition, the service “Flussauen in Germany 2021” also includes data on the floodplains of tide rivers with a catchment area of more than 1 000 km². These were developed in 2016 on behalf of the BfN.