# bundestag/gesetze

Bundesgesetze und -verordnungen

Repository: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gesetze
Homepage: http://bundestag.github.io/gesetze/
License: Unlicense
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-11-25T09:16:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5150, "days_push": 1377, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1915, forks 171 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.744733+00:00)

## What it is
A Git repository containing all German federal laws and ordinances (Bundesgesetze und -verordnungen) converted from official XML sources into Markdown format. It applies Git versioning to legal texts so that the history and evolution of legislation becomes machine-readable and publicly traceable.

## Use cases
- download all German federal laws as markdown files
- track the historical changes of German legislation over time
- build a search engine or app over German statutes
- convert German legal texts into HTML or other formats
- diff versions of a German law to see what changed
- machine-readable corpus of German legal texts for NLP
- propose or discuss amendments to German laws via pull requests

## When to choose
- you need bulk, machine-readable German federal legal texts in a plain-text format
- you want versioned history of legislation rather than only the latest text
- you are building legal-tech tools, search, or analysis on German law
- you prefer human-readable Markdown over raw XML

## When to avoid
- you need legally authoritative or guaranteed-correct law texts - the project explicitly disclaims accuracy and points to official sources
- you need laws from other countries or German state (Länder) law
- you need structured semantic markup rather than prose-oriented Markdown
- you need frequently updated data - the last release was in 2022

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: markdown, documentation, version-control
- domain: legal, e-government, documentation, files
- platform: -
- tags: german-law, bundesgesetze, open-data, git-versioned-texts, legal-texts, xml-to-markdown, transparency

## Member repositories
- bundestag/gesetze (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.744733+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:10:23.136225+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.744733+00:00, sha 1e338671383a)
  - homepage: http://bundestag.github.io/gesetze/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:49:55.115994+00:00, sha 24d8f4f6c48c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.