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Chêne de Saeul

Jwh · CC BY-SA 3.0 lu

27% trees around it and 352 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildlife

  • trees within 3 km27%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded352
  • Altitude308 m

The forest around

27% 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 40%Grassland 33%Cropland 22%Built-up 4%Trees 25%Grassland 46%Cropland 25%Built-up 3%Trees 45%Grassland 33%Cropland 20%Built-up 2%Trees 45%Grassland 31%Cropland 18%Built-up 5%27%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km40%
  • 1–3 km25%
  • 3–6 km45%
  • 6–10 km45%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees25%
  • Grassland46%
  • Cropland25%
  • Built-up3%

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

352 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica101 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum68 recordsJopi · Public domain
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella67 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Sessile Oak
Sessile OakQuercus petraea66 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur63 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix54 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum52 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica48 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon45 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Wall-lettuce
Wall-lettuceMycelis muralis45 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
American milletgrass
American milletgrassMilium effusum44 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus42 recordsBotaurus · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

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

  • 27%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 352Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 308 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°-2°67 mm
  2. Feb4°-2°57 mm
  3. Mar9°0°57 mm
  4. Apr14°4°46 mm
  5. May18°8°70 mm
  6. Jun22°12°68 mm
  7. Jul25°14°65 mm
  8. Aug24°13°72 mm
  9. Sep20°9°56 mm
  10. Oct14°6°65 mm
  11. Nov8°2°68 mm
  12. Dec4°-1°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chêne de Saeul.

Part of the remarkable tress in Luxembourg

Chêne de Saeul is a notable tree in Luxembourg, 308 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 27% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

352 species have been recorded around it: 226 plants, 4 fungi, 99 birds and 23 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Woodruff and Wood-sorrel.

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

Sëll, Consolatrix-101
Jwh · CC BY-SA 3.0 lu

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.

Chêne de Saeul 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

  • 14marked trails within 5 kmSentier de l'Attert, Auto-Pédestre Redange, Sentier des Auberges de Jeunesse Luxembourg-Hollenfels and 11 more
  • 31named and notable trees within 6 kmFallen tree, Platan zu Tënten, Sequoia and 28 more
  • 40picnic sites within 4 km
  • 37shelters and huts within 6 kmGuiden an Scouten Campplaaz and 36 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTouristInfo Welle Westen
  • 48car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmCamping an der Hô, Aire de stationnement pour campingcar Redange/Attert, Aire camping-car Koerich and 3 more
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmGîte, Ecolodges Péitche Lauer, Hôtel Ecolodges Péitche Lauer and 17 more
  • 6restaurants 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 Chêne de Saeul.

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.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Helperknapp4.1 kmNapoléonsgaard554 m · 14 kmSeminairesbierg315 m · 18 kmMontagne de Stockem367 m · 18 kmHerrenberg393 m · 21 kmZolwerknapp422 m · 23 kmTitelberg397 m · 23 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Reiterlee293 m · 6.3 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Vallée de la Haute-Sûre113 species · 21 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Mamerleeën8.3 kmSchetzelklaus17 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.

Sëll, Dafkapell-101
Jwh · CC BY-SA 3.0 lu

Other forests nearby.

Chêne de Saeul

Luxembourg

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 352Species

Grünewald

Luxembourg · 16 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,522Species

See the guide

Anlier forest

Belgium · 25 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 499Species

See the guide

Arboretum Kirchberg

Luxembourg · 17 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 722Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2406286) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,099 open records within 2 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, Cavernyas

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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