HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080396040
Bassin de Weiße Elster
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 7 administrative regions : Altenburger Land, Burgenlandkreis, Gera, Greiz, Leipzig +2
Sub-basin area
1 163,3km²
Upstream area
3 071,7km²
Discharge
17,03m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Weida453 km²
- Bassin de Weiße Elster233 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 366.8 km²31.4% of basin
- 225.8 km²19.3% of basin
- 200.1 km²17.1% of basin
- 151.7 km²13.0% of basin
- 121.2 km²10.4% of basin
- 62.3 km²5.3% of basin
- 39.5 km²3.4% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
51.23 km² overlap
Elsteraue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
29.88 km² overlap
Zeitzer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
17.18 km² overlap
Zeitzer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
17.18 km² overlap
Geraer Stadtwald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
15.29 km² overlap
Leipziger Auwald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
14.92 km² overlap
Elsteraue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
14.57 km² overlap
Am Schwertstein - Himmelsgrund
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.09 km² overlap
Leipziger Auwald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
10.05 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Elsteraue südlich Zwenkau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.15 km² overlap
Elsteraue bei Groitzsch
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
9.10 km² overlap
Kohrener Land
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.76 km² overlap
Nordöstliches Altenburger Land
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
5.56 km² overlap
Leipziger Auensystem
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.42 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
4.98 km² overlap
Kuhndorftal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.76 km² overlap
Bergbaufolgelandschaft Werben
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
4.60 km² overlap
Schnauderaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.44 km² overlap
Weiße Elster nordöstlich Zeitz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.25 km² overlap
Zeitzer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.21 km² overlap
Zeitzer Forst
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
3.97 km² overlap
An den Ziegenböcken
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.84 km² overlap
Zeitzer Forst
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.34 km² overlap
Hainberg - Weinberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.00 km² overlap
Maibachtal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.88 km² overlap
Phönix Nord
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.73 km² overlap
Schluchten bei Gera und Bad Köstritz mit Roschützer Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.64 km² overlap
Bergbaufolgelandschaft Haselbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.56 km² overlap
Brahmeaue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.02 km² overlap
Lasur und Eichberg bei Gera
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 609 distinct species · 128 080 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Weiße Elster : 27 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,4°C
Annual rain
566mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
735mm
AET
481mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
241cm
Forest
6%
Crops
48%
Urban
15%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)