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Rems and Winterbach · River, water, nature and history

Maps of Winterbach

Where is the Rappenwasen, where does the Krebsbach rise, when was the new housing area built? Instead of one big map with everything, we have built several small ones. Each answers one question and sits on the page it belongs to. Here you find them all at a glance. Names are shown in German, as they appear on official maps.

Where is …? The field-name finder

Type a field name – the map shows where it lies in the Winterbach district. Part of the name is enough.

Maps for single questions

  • Where is there water in Winterbach? Streams (culverted sections dashed), springs, lakes, ponds and retention basins. → Water map
  • Where does the water go in heavy rain and floods? Flow paths on the slopes, catchments and the flood areas HQ10, HQ100 and extreme flood. → Flood map
  • What does the landscape tell us? Vineyards in 1832 and today, castles, the salt road and quarries, sunken lanes and natural monuments. → History map
  • What is protected here? Protected areas, protected biotopes and the green belts of the regional plan. → Nature map
  • When was what built where? The development plans, coloured by year, with a time-travel slider and search by number or name. → Development plan map
  • How steep is it here? Set two points and read the elevation profile – gradient, height gained, steepest section. → Elevation profile tool
  • How far is it to the sports ground? For children: drag the dot home and read the walking time. → Sports-ground finder

On a phone, all maps move with two fingers, in full screen with one. “Share this view” gives you a link to exactly the section you are looking at.

Field tracks: report a problem

Well-kept plots and open meadows on the slopes need tracks you can reach with a mower, trailer and ladder. The map shows the field tracks of the district according to OpenStreetMap – light yellow the paved ones, orange dashed the unpaved ones, about 120 kilometres in all. Is a field track hard to use, washed out or overgrown? With “Report a problem” you set a point at the spot and send us a short description, with a photo if you like. The notes are visible only to us, not on the website. Or send a photo with the location to info@remswelle.de – tapping the track shows the coordinates of the spot. We collect the notes and pass them on together. → Privacy (German)

The maps are simplified and without warranty. Only the official maps and regulations are binding. We welcome notes on errors: info@remswelle.de.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Gewann?

A Gewann is a piece of farmland with a shared name, usually made up of several parcels. The names are often centuries old and tell how the land was used or what it looked like.

Why several maps instead of one?

A map with twenty layers was hard to use on a phone. Each map now answers one question, has only a few switches and sits where the topic is explained.

Why are there no parcel numbers or owners on the maps?

Because we are interested in the names and the landscape, not in individual plots. The state's open cadastral data contain no owners either.

How are the flow paths made?

For each cell of the terrain model – simplified to four by four metres – we determine the neighbouring cell with the steepest descent and count how many cells above drain into it. Where this catchment exceeds five hectares, a line begins. The method knows no paths, ditches, culverts or drains and no soil that absorbs water; it shows where the terrain directs the water, not how much actually flows.

Where do the data come from?

From open data of the State Office for Geoinformation and Land Development (aerial photo, cadastre, district boundary, terrain model), the State Institute for the Environment (protected areas, biotopes, natural monuments, flood hazard maps, catchments, retention basins), the municipality of Winterbach (development plans), the regional planning geoportal (regional plan) and OpenStreetMap (streams, lakes, springs, places, field tracks). The details are given below each map.

Sources: Vineyards 1832: historical cadastral map 1:2500 (1832), LGL-BW (2026), dl-de/by-2-0, analysis Remswelle initiative; vineyards today: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Elevation profile: LGL Baden-Württemberg, DGM1 (2023), Data licence Germany – attribution 2.0, simplified to 10 m · Sunken lanes: LGL Baden-Württemberg, DGM1 and DGM025, Data licence Germany – attribution 2.0, analysis Remswelle initiative; paths: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural monuments: LUBW, area natural monuments (queried 29.09.2026), based on data from the Environmental Information System (UIS) of the LUBW · Traces: Heimatverein Winterbach, Kulturgeschichtliche Wege um den Hungerberg (2019); Wikipedia "Burg Winterbach", "Turmhügelburg Winterbach" · Development plans: Gemeinde Winterbach, overview map of development plans in force (GIS-Zentrum Landratsamt Rems-Murr-Kreis, as of 05.11.2020) and list of development plans in force (accessed 27.09.2026), areas simplified, without guarantee · Aerial photograph, municipal boundary and field names: LGL Baden-Württemberg, digital orthophoto and ALKIS (without owners), Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung 2.0, Datenquelle: LGL, www.lgl-bw.de · Protected areas, biotopes: Grundlage: Daten aus dem Umweltinformationssystem (UIS) der LUBW Landesanstalt für Umwelt Baden-Württemberg, accessed 26/27.09.2026 · Flooded areas HQ10, HQ100 and HWextrem (flood hazard maps), river catchments 1:10,000 (AWGN), flood retention basins: Grundlage: Daten aus dem UIS der LUBW, accessed 03.10.2026 · Flow paths: LGL Baden-Württemberg, DGM1, Data licence Germany – attribution 2.0, analysis Remswelle initiative (D8 method, 4 m grid, from 5 ha catchment, without settlement and floodplain) · Green belts and green breaks: © Daten aus dem Geoportal Raumordnung Baden-Württemberg, as of 27.09.2026 · Streams, lakes, springs, places: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), as of 27.09.2026 · Map library: Leaflet 1.9.4 (BSD-2 licence)

Last updated: 15 October 2026 · Initiative Remswelle