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Herrenhausen Gardens

Johannes D. · CC BY-SA 3.0

38% trees around it and 426 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km38%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded426
  • Altitude52 m

The forest around

38% 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 55%Grassland 15%Water 1%Built-up 29%Trees 36%Grassland 12%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 50%Trees 36%Grassland 9%Water 2%Cropland 11%Built-up 41%Trees 33%Grassland 19%Water 2%Cropland 25%Built-up 21%38%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km36%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees36%
  • Grassland12%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up50%

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

426 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica51 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata43 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Monkey-puzzle
Monkey-puzzleAraucaria araucana35 recordsVicente Fernández Rioja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus34 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea32 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Colonial Pine
Colonial PineAraucaria cunninghamii30 recordsJuan Carlos López Almansa · CC BY-SA 2.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon28 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas28 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus25 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus24 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis23 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · Public domain
Florida nutmegCR
Florida nutmegTorreya taxifolia23 recordsUnknown author · 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.

47out of 100

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

  • 38%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 426Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 52 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. Feb4°-2°49 mm
  3. Mar8°0°51 mm
  4. Apr14°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°61 mm
  6. Jun22°12°62 mm
  7. Jul24°14°83 mm
  8. Aug23°13°67 mm
  9. Sep19°10°56 mm
  10. Oct14°6°59 mm
  11. Nov8°2°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

Herrenhausen Gardens.

Park in Hanover, Germany

Herrenhausen Gardens is an arboretum in Germany.

Seen from space, 38% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

426 species have been recorded around it: 279 plants, 7 fungi, 130 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Garlic Mustard and Monkey-puzzle.

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

Herrenhäuser gärten 2
Johannes D. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Wohnmobilstellplatz Hannover - Nordcampsite · 2.0 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Hotel in Herrenhausenplace to stay · 1.1 km · 204 within 10 km
  • Herrenhausennearest town · 0.1 km in a straight line
  • Hannover Airport (HAJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire at HAJ airport (Hannover)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.

Herrenhausen Gardens 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmRoter Faden, Entdeckerpfad, Jakobsweg Via Scandinavica, Niedersachsen and 2 more
  • 32named and notable trees within 6 km1813-1913 Völkerschlachten-Eiche, Fischereiche, Apfel and 29 more
  • 86picnic sites within 4 km
  • 146shelters and huts within 6 kmBUSSTOPS: Futuristisches grünes Luft-Boot and 145 more
  • 11viewpoints within 5 kmRathaus+Maschteich, Lindener Berg, Vierkirchenblick and 8 more
  • 11visitor centres within 6 kmNaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Deutsche Bahn Fundbüro, ÜSTRA tickets and 8 more
  • 1,463car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Hannover - Nord, Wohnmobilstellplatz Sporthallen Gehrden, Campingplatz Arnumer See and 2 more
  • 204places to stay within 10 kmHotel in Herrenhausen, Mercure Hotel am Entenfang, ibis Hannover City and 201 more
  • 425restaurants 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 Herrenhausen Gardens.

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.

Peakyas78 mountains within 25 km
Nackenberg395 m · 4.2 kmBenther Berg173 m · 8.1 kmBurgberg155 m · 12 kmWolfsberg152 m · 15 kmSüllberg198 m · 16 kmBröhn405 m · 21 kmAbraham134 m · 22 kmEbersberg355 m · 23 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Maschsee0.9 km² · 6.0 kmGroßer Ricklinger Teich0.3 km² · 6.5 kmWietzesee0.3 km² · 9.4 kmAltwarmbüchener See0.4 km² · 11 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Anzeiger-HochhausBortle 8 · 2.8 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Löwenbastion am Maschsee6.0 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Empelde gas caverns6.6 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.

A statue at Herrenhausen garden
Udo Rabe · CC BY-SA 2.0
1749- Hannover - Herrenhausen - Großer Garten - Große Fontäne - 20050502
Ingo Rickmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hannover-Herrenhausen-Großer-Garten-Orangerie-2
Misburg3014 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Herrenhausen Gardens

Germany

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 38%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 426Species

Eilenriede

Germany · 6 km

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

See the guide

Teutoburg Forest

Germany · 82 km

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

See the guide

Grinderwald

Germany · 30 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q574773) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species9,596 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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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