Below is page 2 of the Routledge Frequency Dictionary of German. This screenshot was taken using the "Look inside" feature of the Amazon product page for this book. The dictionary says it is based off the Leipzig/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German. Googling for information on this corpus turns up little or nothing.
Leipzig make available various corpora here but neither it nor Brigham Young University seem to have any web content related to something called the "Corpus of Contemporary German".
The dictionary says the corpus brings together words from spoken language, literature, newspapers, academic texts and instructional language. So the dictionary claims to use a broad based corpus and as its full title is "A Frequency Dictionary o