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Göttingen Forest

Jan Stubenitzky ( Dehio ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

68% trees around it and 483 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

ForestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km68%
  • wild within 10 km58%
  • species recorded483
  • Altitude440 m

The forest around

68% 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 72%Grassland 11%Cropland 15%Built-up 1%Trees 67%Grassland 11%Cropland 20%Built-up 1%Trees 50%Grassland 15%Cropland 32%Built-up 2%Trees 36%Grassland 15%Water 1%Cropland 40%Built-up 8%68%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km50%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland20%
  • Built-up1%

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

483 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica1,541 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior104 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Wych Elm
Wych ElmUlmus glabra104 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus71 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Norway maple
Norway mapleAcer platanoides68 recordsMartin Bobka (= Martin120 ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus63 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Wood Spurge
Wood SpurgeEuphorbia amygdaloides54 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus54 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oat
OatAvena sativa51 recordsSendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum45 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum42 recordsJopi · Public domain
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata39 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 68%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 58%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 483Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 440 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°70 mm
  2. Feb3°-3°49 mm
  3. Mar7°-1°52 mm
  4. Apr13°3°40 mm
  5. May17°7°71 mm
  6. Jun21°11°66 mm
  7. Jul24°13°82 mm
  8. Aug24°13°67 mm
  9. Sep19°9°58 mm
  10. Oct13°5°56 mm
  11. Nov7°2°64 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Göttingen Forest.

Mountain range in Lower Saxony, Germany

Göttingen Forest is a forest in Germany, 440 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 68% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 58% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

483 species have been recorded around it: 328 plants, 21 fungi, 118 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Ash and Wych Elm.

The best time to walk is in September.

Wittenberg Plessforst
Jan Stubenitzky ( Dehio ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Göttingen Forest 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

  • 52marked trails within 5 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E6, Deutschland, Niedersachsen, Eichsfeld-Wanderweg, Jakobsweg Via Scandinavica, Niedersachsen and 49 more
  • 35named and notable trees within 6 kmDeppe-Buche, Rüther Buche, Hausmann Buche and 32 more
  • 38picnic sites within 4 kmSeckbornhütte, Weneborn, Geschwisterbuche and 35 more
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 kmKöhlerhütte, Silberhagen, Forsthütte and 22 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmHarzblick, Lengder Burg, Roringer Warte and 3 more
  • 43car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Seeburger See, Reisemobilhafen Göttingen Eiswiese (Badeparadies), Reisemobilhafen Göttingen Eiswiese and 3 more
  • 57places to stay within 10 kmGDA Hotel Göttingen, Landgasthaus zum Seeburger See, Lang Bed & Breakfast and 54 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Göttingen Forest.

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.

Peakyas312 mountains within 25 km
Mackenröder Spitze428 m · 0.3 kmGrefenburg20 kmHoher Hagen492 m · volcano · 21 kmRöhringsberg486 m · 21 kmLengenberg462 m · 22 kmBackenberg341 m · volcano · 23 kmSonnenstein486 m · 24 kmJunkerkuppe511 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Seeburger See0.8 km² · 8.5 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Göttingen ObservatoryBortle 7 · 7.5 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hardenbergwarte13 kmSulbergwarte13 kmPferdebergturm15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Unteres Eichsfeld10 kmUntereichsfeld - Ohmgebirge130 species · 19 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.

GoettingerWaldWegweiser
Ramessos · Public domain
Früchtenicht-Schutzhütte im Göttinger Stadtwald001
Sipalius · CC BY-SA 4.0
Abandoned village (Wüstung) Omborn near Herberhausen, district Göttingen
Nemracc · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Göttingen Forest

Germany

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 483Species

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Germany · 51 km

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

See the guide

Kaufungen Forest

Germany · 38 km

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

See the guide

Sackwald

Germany · 49 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 896Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1559835) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,389 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