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Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Dirk Schmidt (Celsius auf Wikivoyage) · CC BY-SA 3.0

81% trees around it and 646 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km81%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded646
  • Altitude438 m

The forest around

81% 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 89%Grassland 10%Built-up 1%Trees 80%Grassland 11%Cropland 1%Built-up 7%Trees 48%Grassland 20%Cropland 13%Built-up 18%Trees 37%Grassland 18%Water 1%Cropland 28%Built-up 17%81%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km48%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up7%

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

646 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata152 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum123 recordsJopi · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica118 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Perennial Honesty
Perennial HonestyLunaria rediviva80 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa56 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis54 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea53 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Coralroot bittercress
Coralroot bittercressCardamine bulbifera49 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Leatherleaf Viburnum
Leatherleaf ViburnumViburnum rhytidophyllum48 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas47 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis46 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · Public domain
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus45 recordsИгоревич · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

80out of 100

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

  • 81%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 646Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 438 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-3°71 mm
  2. Feb3°-3°51 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°53 mm
  4. Apr13°3°42 mm
  5. May17°7°71 mm
  6. Jun21°11°67 mm
  7. Jul24°13°80 mm
  8. Aug23°13°69 mm
  9. Sep19°9°58 mm
  10. Oct13°5°57 mm
  11. Nov7°2°65 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°70 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.

Landscape park with castle in Kassel, Germany

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a protected forest in Germany, 438 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 81% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

646 species have been recorded around it: 423 plants, 93 fungi, 117 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Woodruff and European Beech.

The best time to walk is in September.

Bergpark wilhelmshoehe talblick ds 05 2006
Dirk Schmidt (Celsius auf Wikivoyage) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Jugendzeltplatzcampsite · 2.7 km · 14 within 10 km
  • Schlosshotel Bad Wilhelmshöheplace to stay · 1.1 km · 120 within 10 km
  • Kasselnearest town · 6.9 km in a straight line
  • Kassel Airport (KSF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at PAD airport (Büren)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 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

  • 133marked trails within 5 kmFulda-Diemel-Weg, Kassel, Hessenschanze - Herkules, Prinzenweg and 130 more
  • 357named and notable trees within 6 kmBaum des Jahres 2016 Winterlinde, Kaiserbuche, Alte Linde and 354 more
  • 32picnic sites within 4 km
  • 112shelters and huts within 6 kmAlexander von Mielecki Hütte, Grillhütte, Daspelhütte and 109 more
  • 41viewpoints within 5 kmHerkulesblick Botanischer Garten, Aussichtspunkt auf Baunatal, Herkulesblick and 38 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmBesucherzentrum Herkules, Tourist- und Kurinformation, Besucherzentrum Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe and 2 more
  • 191car parks within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmJugendzeltplatz, Trekkingplatz Firnsbachtal, Campingplatz Bühl and 11 more
  • 120places to stay within 10 kmSchlosshotel Bad Wilhelmshöhe, Hotel am Bergpark, Elfbuchen and 117 more
  • 46restaurants 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 Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.

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.

Peakyas270 mountains within 25 km
Hohes Gras615 m · 3.4 kmEssigberg598 m · 3.9 kmBühl4.6 kmHoher Dörnberg579 m · 5.6 kmGroßer Bärenberg601 m · 10 kmRohrberg601 m · 10 kmHaferberg580 m · 23 kmDesenberg344 m · volcano · 25 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Elfbuchenturm535 m · 1.6 kmHohes Gras Observation Tower3.3 kmOdenberg Tower14 kmOfenberg-Tower15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Hirzstein bei Kassel3.7 kmFuldaaue um Kassel12 kmVorsperre-Twistetalsperre24 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.

1208 Bergpark 028
Jens Haines · CC BY-SA 3.0
Schlosspark Wilhelmshöhe 001
Nikanos · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bergpark wilhelmshoehe grosse fontaene
User Hafenbar on de.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Germany

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 646Species

Kaufungen Forest

Germany · 26 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 210Species

See the guide

Seulingswald

Germany · 56 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 246Species

See the guide

Teutoburg Forest

Germany · 76 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 306Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q447441) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,033 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

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

The family

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