Country fact sheet
Noise in Europe 2017 overview of policy-related data
Germany
April 2017
Photo: © Matthias Hintzsche
The Environmental Noise Directive (END) requires EU member states to assess exposure to noise from key transport and industrial sources with two initial reporting phases: 2007 and 2012. Where the recommended thresholds for day and night indicators are exceeded, action plans are to be implemented. This country fiche presents data related to END assessments as reported to EEA by 15th April 2016 for the two key END indicators: Lden (day evening and night exposure) and Lnight (night time exposure). 2012 strategic noise maps reported are presented, as well as HIA calculations for annoyance and sleep disturbance, hospital admissions and mortality. Trends are presented as the change in exposure from 2007 to 2012, for comparable sources only.
GERMANY Noise sources covered by this assessment Agglomerations > 100.000 inhabitants
Aachen, Augsburg, Bergisch Gladbach, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Bottrop, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Chemnitz, Cologne, Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Erlangen, Essen, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Furth, Gelsenkirchen, Gottingen, Hagen, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Herne, Hildesheim, Ingolstadt, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kiel, Koblenz, Krefeld, Leipzig, Leverkusen, Lubeck, Ludwigshafen, Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Moers, Monchengladbach, Mulheim an der Ruhr, Munich, Munster, Neuss, Nuremberg, Oberhausen, Offenbach, Oldenburg, Osnabruck, Pforzheim, Potsdam, Recklinghausen, Regensburg, Remscheid, Reutlingen, Rostock, Saarbrucken, Solingen, Stuttgart, Ulm, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal, Wurzburg 71 agglomerations in total, covering 24.438.010 inhabitants
Major airports > 50.000 movements per year
Berlin Schonefeld Airport, Berlin Tegel Airport, Stuttgart Airport, Munich Airport, Nuremberg Airport, Frankfurt am Main Airport, Hamburg Airport, Hanover Langenhagen Airport, Cologne Bonn Airport, Dusseldorf Internatinal Airport, Leipzig/Halle Airport 11 major airports in total
Major roads > 3 million vehicles per year Major railways > 30.000 train passages per year
37424 km in total 14271 km in total
Number of people exposed to different noise bands per Lden and Lnight (2012) 7000
6000
Number of people in thousands
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0 Lden
Lnight
Airports
Lden
Lnight
Industry
Lden
Lnight
Railways
Agglomeration
Lden
Lnight
Roads
Lden
Lnight
Airports
Lden
Lnight
Railways
Lden
Lnight
Roads
Major
Data not applicable in 49 agglomerations for aircraft noise and in 6 agglomerations for industrial noise, out of 71 agglomerations.
Total number of people exposed to road noise inside agglomerations (2012) Aachen Augsburg Bergisch Gladbach Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bottrop Braunschweig Bremen Bremerhaven Chemnitz Cologne Darmstadt Dortmund Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Erlangen Essen Frankfurt Freiburg Furth Gelsenkirchen Gottingen Hagen Halle Hamburg Hannover Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Karlsruhe Kassel Kiel Koblenz Krefeld Leipzig Leverkusen Lubeck Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Moers Monchengladbach Mulheim an der Ruhr Munich Munster Neuss Nuremberg Oberhausen Offenbach Oldenburg Osnabruck Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Rostock Saarbrucken Solingen Stuttgart Ulm Wiesbaden Wuppertal Wurzburg
700
600
500
400
300
200
Number of people exposed to Lden > 55 dB
100 0 Thousands
Roads
0
100
200
300
Number of people exposed to Lnight > 50 dB
400 500 Thousands
Total number of people exposed to railway, aircraft and industrial noise inside agglomerations (2012) Aachen Augsburg Bergisch Gladbach Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bottrop Braunschweig Bremen Bremerhaven Chemnitz Cologne Darmstadt Dortmund Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Erlangen Essen Frankfurt Freiburg Furth Gelsenkirchen Gottingen Hagen Halle Hamburg Hannover Heidelberg Heilbronn Herne Hildesheim Ingolstadt Karlsruhe Kassel Kiel Koblenz Krefeld Leipzig Leverkusen Lubeck Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Moers Monchengladbach Mulheim an der Ruhr Munich Munster Neuss Nuremberg Oberhausen Offenbach Oldenburg Osnabruck Pforzheim Potsdam Recklinghausen Regensburg Remscheid Reutlingen Rostock Saarbrucken Solingen Stuttgart Ulm Wiesbaden Wuppertal Wurzburg
300
250
200 150 100 Number of people exposed to Lden > 55 dB
50
0 Thousands
Airports Industry
Railways
0
50
100
150
200 250 Thousands
Number of people exposed to Lnight > 50 dB
Total number of people exposed to Major Airports outside agglomerations (2012) Leipzig/Halle Airport Dusseldorf Internatinal Airport Hamburg Airport Frankfurt am Main Airport Nuremberg Airport Stuttgart Airport Berlin Tegel Airport Berlin Schonefeld Airport Munich Airport Hanover Langenhagen Airport Cologne Bonn Airport…
55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 >75
100000
80000
60000 40000 Number of people exposed to Lden
20000
0
0
50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 >70
10000 20000 30000 Number of people exposed to Lnight
40000
Noise contour maps (2012) Major roads
Major railways
Major airports Airport
ICAO
Berlin Schonefeld Airport Berlin Tegel Airport Stuttgart Airport Munich Airport Nuremberg Airport Frankfurt am Main Airport Hamburg Airport Hanover Langenhagen Airport Cologne Bonn Airport Dusseldorf Internatinal Airport Leipzig/Halle Airport
EDDB EDDT EDDS EDDM EDDN EDDF EDDH EDDV EDDK EDDL EDDP
Annual traffic 76607 143050 164736 411440 73778 487162 158309 86000 135938 225089 64906
Health impact assessment Annoyance and sleep disturbance
Hospital admissions and mortality
Trends on noise exposure 2007 - 2012 Trends on noise exposure are shown only in those cases where data is available for both implementation rounds: -
For major airports: total number of people exposed to more than 55 dB Lden and to more than 50 dB Lnight outside agglomerations. For agglomerations: percentage of population exposed to more than 55 dB Lden and to more than 50 dB Lnight due to different noise sources.
Major airports:
Munich Airport Nuremberg Airport Hanover Langenhagen Airport Dusseldorf Internatinal Airport Cologne Bonn Airport Hamburg Airport Frankfurt am Main Airport Berlin Tegel Airport Stuttgart Airport
Lden
Lnight
First Round Second Round
First Round Second Round
7800 1400 26300 30900 31400 51100 225200 251300 43500
11300 1600 18300 32300 35400 2800 109200 0 43500
800 0 10500 6600 19900 5400 107200 74000 5700
3400 0 4900 7400 22000 0 36800 0 5700
Agglomerations: Air (values in %)
Berlin Bremen Cologne Dortmund Dresden Dusseldorf Essen Frankfurt Hamburg Hannover Leipzig (*) Mannheim Nuremberg Stuttgart
Industry (values in %)
Aachen Augsburg Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bremen Cologne Dortmund
Lden First Second Round Round
7.5 3 5 1 0.6 1.2 0.6 2.0 2.5 0 0 0.3 0.7 0.1
7.4 4 5 0 2.0 1.4 2.6 1.9 2.6 0 0 0.3 0.7 0.1
Lden First Second Round Round
0.00 0.59 0.01 0 0.21 0.19 0.50 0.72 0.02
0.04 0.26 0.02 0 0.27 0.18 1.25 0.25 0.05
Lnight First Second Round Round
2 0 2 0 0.2 0.2 0 0.1 0.3 0 0 0 0 0
2 1 2 0 0.2 0.2 0 0.0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Lnight First Second Round Round
0 0 0.01 0 0.08 0.16 0.06 0.58 0
0 0 0.01 0 0.08 0.15 0.53 0.08 0
Railway (values in %)
First Round
Aachen Augsburg Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bremen Cologne Dortmund Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hamburg Hannover Karlsruhe Kiel (*) Leipzig (*) Mannheim Monchengladbach Munich Nuremberg Stuttgart Wiesbaden Wuppertal
21 10.5 5.1 8.9 9.9 26.5 22 24 8 4.2 13.2 16.4 9.5 14.4 12.1 5.1 29.3 11.3 1 4 19.1 18 9.4 17.0 9.0 14 8
Lden Second Round
15 10.8 6.9 9.9 11.2 23.9 26 25 9 11.1 20.0 21.8 12.9 15.9 12.7 5.7 34.5 21.1 1 11 29.7 8 11.8 16.5 12.8 13 7
First Round
16 8.1 3.7 7.5 7.7 21.9 17 20 6 3.2 9.3 11.9 7.4 11.2 9.7 3.7 25.0 9.1 1 3 14 14 6.9 13.5 6.7 12 6
Lnight Second Round
12 8.2 5.2 8.1 8.9 19.5 20 20 7 8.2 14.9 16.7 9.7 12.2 10.1 4.2 28.7 16.8 1 8 23 6 8.7 13.1 9.2 11 5
Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hamburg Hannover Karlsruhe Kiel (*) Leipzig (*) Mannheim Monchengladbach Munich Nuremberg Stuttgart Wuppertal
0 0.44 0.05 0.15 0.50 0.04 0.21 0.04 0.07 0 0 1.78 0 0.05 0.06 0.12 0.03
0 0.47 0.10 0.09 0.10 0.19 0.17 0.04 0.07 0 0 1.87 0 0.04 0.08 0.17 0.00
0 0.10 0.02 0.07 0.24 0.00 0.13 0 0 0 0 0.52 0 0 0.02 0.02 0
Decrease in population exposed No change Increase in population exposed
0 0.29 0.02 0.02 0.06 0.04 0.10 0 0 0 0 0.55 0 0 0.02 0.07 0
Road (values in %)
First Round
Aachen Augsburg Berlin Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Bremen Cologne Dortmund Dresden Duisburg Dusseldorf Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hamburg Hannover Karlsruhe Kiel (*) Leipzig (*) Mannheim Monchengladbach Munich Nuremberg Stuttgart Wiesbaden Wuppertal
32 17 19 38 26 37 29 33 30 21 27 28 30 31 24 21 28 21 12 20 20 46 22 28 18 25 29
Lden Second Round
56 16 18 23 35 22 26 25 30 21 29 41 29 30 30 21 27 26 15 16 24 29 18 23 20 31 25
First Round
19 11 16 14 17 26 16 23 19 16 7 20 20 20 7 15 17 14 8 13 12 14 14 18 11 16 20
Lnight Second Round
37 10 14 12 20 15 14 18 18 15 18 23 19 21 21 14 16 17 9 10 13 22 12 14 13 20 17
(*) Increase of the number of inhabitants bigger than 10% between 2005 and 2010 For further information about environmental noise in Europe please consult http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/human/noise or visit the Noise Observation & Information Service for Europe at http://noise.eionet.europa.eu/ and EEA Data Service http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-andmaps/data/data-on-noise-exposure-2.
