The CRC1211DB is the project-database of the Collaborative Research Centre 1211 "Earth -Evolution at the dry limit" (CRC1211, https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, German Research Foundation – Projektnummer 268236062). The project-database is a new implementation of the TR32DB and online since 2016. It handles all data including metadata, which are created by the involved project participants from several institutions (e.g. Universities of Cologne, Bonn, Aachen, and the Research Centre Jülich) and research fields (e.g. soil and plant sciences, biology, geography, geology, meteorology and remote sensing). The data is resulting from several field measurement campaigns, meteorological monitoring, remote sensing, laboratory studies and modelling approaches. Furthermore, outcomes of the scientists such as publications, conference contributions, PhD reports and corresponding images are collected.