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Hildesheim Forest

Ramessos · Public domain

68% trees around it and 490 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

ForestFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km68%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded490
  • Altitude237 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 77%Grassland 7%Cropland 13%Built-up 3%Trees 67%Grassland 5%Cropland 25%Built-up 3%Trees 44%Grassland 8%Cropland 44%Built-up 4%Trees 35%Grassland 11%Water 0%Cropland 44%Built-up 9%68%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km77%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Grassland5%
  • 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

490 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata42 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coralroot bittercress
Coralroot bittercressCardamine bulbifera38 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum31 recordsJopi · Public domain
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea25 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon21 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis20 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara19 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica17 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus16 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis16 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common twayblade
Common twaybladeNeottia ovata15 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum15 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out 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
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 490Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 237 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. Feb4°-2°49 mm
  3. Mar8°0°52 mm
  4. Apr14°3°39 mm
  5. May18°8°66 mm
  6. Jun21°11°63 mm
  7. Jul24°13°84 mm
  8. Aug24°13°67 mm
  9. Sep19°9°58 mm
  10. Oct14°5°58 mm
  11. Nov8°2°64 mm
  12. Dec4°-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

Hildesheim Forest.

Mountains in Germany

Hildesheim Forest is a forest in Germany, 237 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 68% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

490 species have been recorded around it: 310 plants, 66 fungi, 94 birds and 20 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Coralroot bittercress and Woodruff.

The best time to walk is in September.

HildesheimerAussichtsturm
Ramessos · Public domain

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.

Hildesheim 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmFernwanderweg Calenberg-Harz, Jakobsweg Via Scandinavica, Niedersachsen, Königsweg Brüggen - Werla (Etappe 1 Brüggen - Graste) and 3 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmMammutbaum and 4 more
  • 9picnic sites within 4 kmKlein Posens Ruh and 8 more
  • 70shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzhütte, Tosmar-Hütte, Kleine Hütte and 67 more
  • 22viewpoints within 5 kmÜbersicht Despetal, Übersicht Sibbesse-Griesberg, Amelungs Blick and 19 more
  • 52car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmDiözesanzentrum Hildesholz, Wohnmobilstellplatz Hohnsensee, Reisemobilstellplatz Solebadstraße and 2 more
  • 43places to stay within 10 kmKulturherberge Wernershöhe, DJH Jugendherberge Hildesheim, Parkhotel Berghölzchen and 40 more
  • 6restaurants 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 Hildesheim 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.

Peakyas224 mountains within 25 km
Tosmarberg320 m · 3.6 kmSteinberg328 m · 4.2 kmGriesberg359 m · 4.8 kmLerchen-Berg242 m · 5.5 kmIdt-Berg364 m · 20 kmGroßesohl472 m · 20 kmHohe Egge395 m · 20 kmBloße Zelle480 m · 20 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Ernst-Binnewies-Tower7.8 kmHimmelberg Tower9.9 kmCölle-Tower12 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Hildesheimer Wald4.5 kmSollingvorland22 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Lippoldshöhle15 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.

Hildesheimer Wald, 1, Landkreis Hildesheim
GeorgDerReisende · CC BY-SA 4.0
Panoramablick Hildesheimerwald - panoramio
dysy31039 · CC BY-SA 3.0
2021-04-03 110138 John Deere 1910E Forwarder
Tim Rademacher · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Hildesheim Forest

Germany

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 490Species

Sackwald

Germany · 13 km

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

See the guide

Teutoburg Forest

Germany · 77 km

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

See the guide

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Germany · 92 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1618461) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,942 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, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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