Maritime Borders of the Federal Republic of Germany

The maritime borders dataset contains the seaward boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the territorial sea and the baselines. They are condensed coordinates of the maritime border maps 2920 (North Sea) and 2921 (Baltic Sea). They are coordinates compressed (interpolated) to geodetic lines. The distance of the nodes on the geodetic connecting lines of the defined boundary points is less than or equal to 100 m. The maritime borders of Germany were proclaimed in the today no more usual coordinate system "European date 1950 (ED50)". This definition is based in particular on the announcement of the Federal Government's proclamation of 19 October 1994 on the extension of the German territorial sea (BGBl. I p. 3428) and the Federal Republic of Germany's proclamation of 25 November 1994 on the establishment of an exclusive economic zone (BGBl. II p. 3769), which are decisive with regard to the demarcation of the German territorial sea and the German exclusive economic zone. In order to be able to better use these boundaries in today's GIS systems and to avoid conversion errors, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency has derived the present usage coordinates in WGS 84. In this respect, they are not official maritime borders of Germany.

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Alternate title

Seevermessung_DeutscheSeegrenzen
Date (Publication)
2025-07-25
Date (Creation)
2025-07-25
Date (Revision)
2025-07-25
Citation identifier
https://gdi.bsh.de/de/metadata/Maritime-Borders-of-the-Federal-Republic-of-Germany.xml
Point of contact
  Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) - ( Seevermessung )
Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 78 , Hamburg , Hamburg , 20359 , Germany
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Spatial scope

  • National
Theme

  • baseline

  • BSH

  • EEZ

  • Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

  • maritime border

  • maritime boundary

  • territorial sea
Classification
Unclassified

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Dieser Datensatz kann gemäß der "Nutzungsbestimmungen für die Bereitstellung von Geodaten des Bundes" ( http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/geonutzv/GeoNutzV.pdf ) genutzt werden.

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{"id": " geoNutz/20130319", "url": " http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/geonutzv/GeoNutzV.pdf ", "name": "Nutzungsbestimmungen für die Bereitstellung von Geodaten des Bundes", "quelle": "Quelle: © BSH 2025"}

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Es gelten keine Zugriffsbeschränkungen
Language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Transportation
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Geographic identifier
000000000000
 

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Dataset
Other

dataset
Statement

Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)
 

Ref. system

Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4326
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
631b3032-8a57-4354-ba6b-7571ac38fcd7 XML
Metadata language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

Hydrographie
Date stamp
2026-05-07T18:05:45.65205
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) - ( Datenprodukte )
Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 78 , Hamburg , Hamburg , 20359 , Germany
 
 

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Keywords

BSH EEZ Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency baseline maritime border maritime boundary territorial sea

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