HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080405260
Bassin de Zwickauer Mulde
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 6 administrative regions : Altenburger Land, Chemnitz, Erzgebirgskreis, Mittelsachsen, Vogtlandkreis +1
Sub-basin area
878,6km²
Upstream area
1 555,6km²
Discharge
12,28m³/s
Mean elev.
363m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Schwarzwasser361 km²
- Bassin de Zwickauer Mulde316 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 637.9 km²72.3% of basin
- 127.9 km²14.5% of basin
- 93.5 km²10.6% of basin
- 14.4 km²1.6% of basin
- 4.6 km²0.5% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.4% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Mulden- und Chemnitztal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
55.30 km² overlap
Kirchberger Granit
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
51.52 km² overlap
Mulden- und Chemnitztal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
46.58 km² overlap
Pfaffenberg - Oberwald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
21.75 km² overlap
Tal der Zwickauer Mulde
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
15.21 km² overlap
Mittleres Zwickauer Muldetal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.13 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.00 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.49 km² overlap
Muldetal bei Aue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.90 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Plotzgrund
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.15 km² overlap
Limbacher Teichgebiet
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.52 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.96 km² overlap
Hirschgrund
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.91 km² overlap
Um die Rochsburg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.60 km² overlap
Limbacher Teiche
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.45 km² overlap
Weißenborner Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.21 km² overlap
Crinitzer Wasser und Teiche im Kirchberger Granitgebiet
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.02 km² overlap
Limbacher Teiche
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.87 km² overlap
Oberwald Hohenstein-Ernstthal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.82 km² overlap
Erzgebirgsweg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.37 km² overlap
Paradiesgrund
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.29 km² overlap
Crinitzberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.17 km² overlap
Oelbachgrund
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.08 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.02 km² overlap
Kuttenbach, Moosheide und Vordere Aue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.97 km² overlap
Am Rümpfwald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.89 km² overlap
Hartensteiner Wald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.86 km² overlap
Am Rümpfwald Glauchau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.84 km² overlap
Bachtäler südlich Zwickau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.83 km² overlap
Am Kreuzberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 177 distinct species · 87 441 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Zwickauer Mulde : 19 espèces reliées par 124 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 23.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
7,6°C
Annual rain
615mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
709mm
AET
514mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
279cm
Forest
18%
Crops
46%
Urban
27%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)