This is from an American who has traveled around a good of rural and urbanized Germany over 30 years. It's not from the police, politicians or news media types.
First, lets just define a NO-GO area as a place where you probably aren't 100-percent safe, and it's for a variety of reasons.
This could be a 'junkie-zone' like the one that exists in the Bahnhof (train-station) zone of Frankfurt, or the city park on the east side of Berlin, or on the eastern end of the Hamburg train station.
It could be because of the potential for thefts or assaults....like the Bahnhof Strasse area of Wiesbaden, after 10 PM. You could go and walk this zone at 11 PM a thousand times, and 999 occasions....nothing happens.
Second, let's be clear that in most towns of 50,000 or less....you just aren't going to find anything related to NO-GO areas. It's mostly a metro-or-urbanized thing.
Third, as much as the police know there are issues....you can't invent some legal method to do mass intervention, unless you add a curfew, and Germans really aren't into curfew action. Covid demonstrated that negativity.
Fourth and final, to be honest, there's just not anything tourist-related that comes up near a NO-GO area. If you were into German historical stuff, or culture-magnets....with the map drawn of the area....you'd likely find no woes or threats in your path.
Yeah, it's one-percent of one-percent of the country that I'd be referring to.
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