HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080408960

Bassin de Werra

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 : Fulda, Gotha, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hildburghausen, Rhön-Grabfeld +2

Pfafstetter: 23270697

Sub-basin area

1 333,6km²

Upstream area

2 307km²

Discharge

18,09m³/s

Mean elev.

428m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Werra478 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Werra644 km²
Bassin de Lauter330 km²

7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Schmalkalden-Meiningen
Thüringen · Germany
844.0 km²
63.1% of basin
Wartburgkreis
Thüringen · Germany
477.6 km²
35.7% of basin
Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Hessen · Germany
6.1 km²
0.5% of basin
Hildburghausen
Thüringen · Germany
5.6 km²
0.4% of basin
Fulda
Hessen · Germany
2.3 km²
0.2% of basin
Gotha
Thüringen · Germany
1.7 km²
0.1% of basin
Rhön-Grabfeld
Bayern · Germany
1.2 km²
0.1% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Thüringische Rhön
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
444.05 km² overlap
Biosphärenreservat Rhön
IUCN Not Assigned
biosphere reserve
313.43 km² overlap
Rhön, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assigned
biosphere reserve - transition area
290.53 km² overlap
Thüringer Wald
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
175.78 km² overlap
Thüringische Rhön
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
126.77 km² overlap
Herpfer Wald - Berkeser Wald - Stillberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
22.06 km² overlap
Herpfer Wald - Berkeser Wald - Stillberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
22.06 km² overlap
Kuppige Rhön südwestlich Dermbach
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
20.25 km² overlap
Schweinaer Grund - Zechsteingürtel um Bad Liebenstein
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
19.49 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Geba-Triften - Diesburg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
17.16 km² overlap
Pleß - Stoffelskuppe - Bernshäuser Kutte
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
15.69 km² overlap
Rhön, Pflegezone
IUCN Not Assigned
biosphere reserve - buffer zone
14.61 km² overlap
Ibengarten - Wiesenthaler Schweiz - Sommertal
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
14.55 km² overlap
Werra-Aue zwischen Breitungen und Creuzburg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
13.34 km² overlap
Thüringer Wald zwischen Kleinschmalkalden und Tambach-Dietharz
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.61 km² overlap
Werra bis Treffurt mit Zuflüssen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.10 km² overlap
Rhön, Kernzone
IUCN Not Assigned
biosphere reserve - core area
8.28 km² overlap
Öchsenberg - Dietrichsberg - Sattelberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.14 km² overlap
Dolmar und Christeser Grund
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.71 km² overlap
NSG Horbel - Hoflar - Birkenberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.27 km² overlap
Erdfallgebiet Frauensee
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.14 km² overlap
Eschberg - Dürrenberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.11 km² overlap
Thüringer Wald von Ruhla bis Großer Inselsberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.99 km² overlap
Westhang des Dolmar
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
2.98 km² overlap
Thüringer Wald zwischen Ruhla und Großer Inselsberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.96 km² overlap
Roßdorfer Steintriften
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.60 km² overlap
Krücke - Oberwald - Wunschberg
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.58 km² overlap
Grünes Band Hessen
IUCN III
Nature monuments
2.44 km² overlap
Hessische Rhön
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.25 km² overlap
Hohe Rhön
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
2.24 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 146 distinct species · 82 571 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 32 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Werra : 20 espèces reliées par 138 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 24.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

138

Connectance

0.246

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,4°C

Annual rain

693mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,07

Runoff

254mm/an

PET

745mm

AET

548mm

Mean slope

6,7°

Water table

372cm

Forest

29%

Crops

24%

Urban

Protected

48%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)