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Aachener Stadtforst

Andreas Hörstemeier · CC BY-SA 2.0

80% trees around it and 1,024 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km80%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded1,024
  • Altitude371 m

The forest around

80% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 97%Grassland 3%Trees 78%Grassland 16%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 5%Trees 44%Grassland 34%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 20%Trees 33%Grassland 45%Cropland 10%Built-up 11%80%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km78%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees78%
  • Grassland16%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up5%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

1,024 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata186 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon177 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea154 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera121 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica115 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium114 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana106 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus96 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum89 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus81 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix79 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra78 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

78out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 80%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,024Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 371 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan2°-2°86 mm
  2. Feb3°-2°76 mm
  3. Mar7°0°72 mm
  4. Apr12°3°53 mm
  5. May16°7°77 mm
  6. Jun20°10°79 mm
  7. Jul22°12°84 mm
  8. Aug22°12°90 mm
  9. Sep18°8°66 mm
  10. Oct13°5°70 mm
  11. Nov7°2°78 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Aachener Stadtforst.

Forest

Aachener Stadtforst is a forest in Germany, 371 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 80% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,024 species have been recorded around it: 850 plants, 24 fungi, 131 birds and 19 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Yellow Archangel and Ground-ivy.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Aachener Wald - geo.hlipp.de - 5415
Andreas Hörstemeier · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Aachener Stadtforst seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 416marked trails within 5 kmJakobs-Pilgerweg Köln - Aachen, Via Mosana, Jakobs-Pilgerweg Dortmund - Aachen and 413 more
  • 30named and notable trees within 6 kmForster Linde, P8;P9, P6 and 27 more
  • 84picnic sites within 4 km
  • 178shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzhütte Siebenwege, Schutzhütte Schmalzloch, Schutzhütte Siebenpfade and 175 more
  • 36viewpoints within 5 kmBismarckturm, König Baudoin Turm and 34 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmHaus des Gastes, DB Reisezentrum, Labyrint and 4 more
  • 153car parks within 3 km
  • 19campsites within 10 kmJugendgruppenzeltplatz Aachen, Stellplatz Bad Aachen, Natur-Camping Hammerbrücke and 16 more
  • 132places to stay within 10 kmAm Bismarckturm, Haus Daphne, City Apartments Regence and 129 more
  • 22restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Aachener Stadtforst.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas104 mountains within 25 km
Klausberg354 m · 0.4 kmVaalserberg322 m · 4.3 kmSalvatorberg229 m · 5.8 kmLousberg264 m · 6.0 kmSchneeberg256 m · 6.9 kmSteling658 m · 20 kmCauberg137 m · 22 kmBaraque Michel674 m · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Dam of the Vesdre1.1 km² · 13 kmDreilägerbachtalsperre0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Eifel National ParkBortle 4 · 28 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Bismarck Tower (Aachen)2.8 kmVaalserberg322 m · 4.4 kmBei den zwölf Aposteln6.3 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Osthertogenwald around Raeren113 species · 9.7 kmAffluents du lac d'Eupen131 species · 14 kmFagnes du Nord-Est134 species · 17 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Aachener Landgraben - Elleterberg
ArthurMcGill · CC BY 3.0
Aachener Landgraben
Qwertzu111111 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aachener Stadtwald 2010-05 a
Ahoerstemeier · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Aachener Stadtforst

Germany

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,024Species

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 20 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 593Species

See the guide

Hürtgen Forest

Germany · 16 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 312Species

See the guide

Zitter Forest

Belgium · 45 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 249Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q151276) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species22,750 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here