Name: Conservation areas
Creator: Styrelsen for Grøn Arealomlægning og Vandmiljø (SGAV), via Danmarks Miljøportal
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

What you can explore

Find an area or church conservation record, inspect its reference, and open the official decision where the source supplies a link. Use the map as a geographic entry point to each case's restrictions.

Documentation

Publisher: Styrelsen for Grøn Arealomlægning og Vandmiljø (SGAV), via Danmarks Miljøportal
Geographic coverage: Denmark, including source coastal and marine areas
Temporal coverage: 2026-09-11
Coordinate reference system: EPSG:25832
Geometry: Polygon and MultiPolygon
Terms: CC0 1.0 ↗

SGAV conservation records via Danmarks Miljøportal, Arealdata: Fredede områder. The 11 September 2026 snapshot contains 4,173 current public records; four drafts/proposals are excluded. Two matching WFS captures are verified and pinned by checksum. Refreshes are validated and packaged as PMTiles before a new dated edition is published.

Use the data yourself

CC0 1.0 · You may copy, adapt and share the data, including commercially. Credit is good practice, but is not required by CC0.

Suggested credit: Styrelsen for Grøn Arealomlægning og Vandmiljø (SGAV), via Danmarks Miljøportal, Fredede områder. Bearbejdet af OpenLandData. Indeholder data, som benyttes i henhold til vilkår for brug af danske offentlige data.

CC0 1.0 is explicitly specified by the Arealdata record linking to the WFS layer used.

Terms reviewed: 2026-09-11. Processing and calculations: openlanddata.

Available editions

Conservation areas 2026-09-114,173 feature count

Dataset fields

name

Conservation area name

Source conservation name. Unnamed records use their reference where available.

designation

Conservation type

Area or church conservation. Restrictions follow the individual decision.

sourceAreaM2

Source area

Whole source record area in m², displayed as hectares. Not a sum of tile fragments.

reference

Conservation reference

Source conservation reference, which can be shared by several parts.

decisionYear

Conservation year

Year recorded by the source. Missing years are omitted.

decisionDate

Effective from

Source effective date where recorded; placeholder dates are omitted.

officialUrl

Conservation decision

Link to the authority's decision where the source supplies a valid URL. The conservation reference remains available when the link is missing.

sourceUpdatedAt

Source record date

Source record version date, not necessarily the conservation decision date.

Limitations and responsibility

Includes only Statuskode 3, Off_kode 1 and records with no ended system or validity period. A record is not necessarily a separate conservation case; parts can share a reference. Overlapping areas are not summed. Missing years (-1/0) and the placeholder date 1800-01-01 are not displayed as decision dates. The source does not supply municipalities. Older official decision links may have moved. The service reports no overall update date; retrieval identifies the edition.

Conservation areas