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Grinderwald

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

63% trees around it and 191 species recorded.

57Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km63%
  • wild within 10 km64%
  • species recorded191
  • Altitude99 m

The forest around

63% 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 85%Grassland 1%Cropland 14%Trees 61%Grassland 14%Water 0%Cropland 23%Built-up 1%Trees 35%Grassland 25%Water 0%Cropland 37%Built-up 2%Trees 38%Grassland 21%Wetland 0%Water 3%Cropland 34%Built-up 3%63%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km61%
  • 3–6 km35%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees61%
  • Grassland14%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland23%
  • 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

191 species recorded.

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

Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare13 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica9 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum8 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea6 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria6 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Little mouse-ear chickweed
Little mouse-ear chickweedStellaria media6 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Disc mayweed
Disc mayweedMatricaria discoidea5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum5 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare4 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana4 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora4 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

57out of 100

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

  • 63%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 64%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 191Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 99 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°69 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°50 mm
  3. Mar9°0°50 mm
  4. Apr14°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°60 mm
  6. Jun22°12°62 mm
  7. Jul24°14°78 mm
  8. Aug23°13°68 mm
  9. Sep19°10°55 mm
  10. Oct14°6°59 mm
  11. Nov8°3°62 mm
  12. Dec4°0°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Grinderwald.

Mountain range

Grinderwald is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 63% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 64% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

191 species have been recorded around it: 91 plants, 0 fungi, 88 birds and 12 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tansy, European Beech and Hemp-agrimony.

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

Grinderwald seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Grinderwald 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmPilgerweg Loccum - Volkenroda: Kloster Mariensee, Südvariante, Roswitha-Weg, Mardorf Rundwanderweg M6 (Häfernpfad) and 4 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmNaturdenkmal
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmBannsee, Nordufer Camping, Camping Niemeyer and 9 more
  • 17places to stay within 10 kmFerienwohnungen Pfarrscheune Hagen, Niemeyers Gästezimmer, Landhotel Meinkingsburg and 14 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Grinderwald.

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.

Peakyas41 mountains within 25 km
Osterberg9.9 kmHaar-Berg16 kmBrunnenberg161 m · 18 kmBrelinger Berg92 m · 20 kmAltar-Berg21 kmMühlenberg68 m · 23 kmWitrem-Berg24 kmGlockenberg25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Steinhuder Meer27 km² · 12 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Steinhuder Meer240 species · 12 kmWesertalaue bei Landesbergen17 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Grinderwald

Germany

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 191Species

Teutoburg Forest

Germany · 84 km

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

See the guide

Eilenriede

Germany · 35 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 54%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 1,060Species

See the guide

Sackwald

Germany · 77 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q163808) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,586 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, 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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