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SWITZERLAND · LANDSCAPE · WATER PROTECTION

Gewässerraum

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The legally fixed river space of flowing and standing waters under Art. 36a GSchG. Only installations tied to the location and in the public interest, such as footpaths and hiking trails, run-of-river power plants or bridges, may be built in it, and it may only be designed and farmed extensively (Art. 41c GSchV); lawfully built installations are in principle protected in their existing state. Where no river space has been fixed yet, the transitional provisions of the GSchV apply, with strips on either side of the water. Included: the cantons of AG, BE, BL, FR, GL, JU, SH, SZ, TG, TI, VS, ZG and ZH; cantons whose terms of use do not allow use in this app, or that do not publish the data openly, are not included.

Publisher and licence

Kantone AG/BE/BL/FR/GL/JU/SH/SZ/TG/TI/VS/ZG/ZH über geodienste.ch, Nutzungsbedingungen der Kantone

Licence not stated by the publisher

Kantone AG/BE/BL/FR/GL/JU/SH/SZ/TG/TI/VS/ZG/ZH über geodienste.ch, Nutzungsbedingungen der Kantone

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Where the data comes from

WFS · geodienste.ch

Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.

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Water body · Legal status · Published from · Waived · Canton

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Building and planning

The rules a building project meets first: building zones, primary and overlay land use, planning zones, noise sensitivity levels, crop rotation areas, static forest boundaries and river space, national road building lines and aerodrome safety zones, polluted sites, ISOS and IVS. For a parcel, the ÖREB cadastre remains what binds.

Water and natural hazards

Groundwater protection zones S1 to S3, Sh and Sm, protection areas, water protection areas Au and Ao and inflow areas, river space, then the hazard and hazard indication maps, the natural event register and seismic subsoil classes: with bathing waters and the ecomorphological state of the rivers.

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