Germany protected forest
Hofgarten
Remi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.0
22% trees around it and 851 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km22%
- wild within 10 km57%
- species recorded851
The forest around
22% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km17%
- 1–3 km23%
- 3–6 km37%
- 6–10 km41%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees23%
- Grassland7%
- Water8%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up62%
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
851 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 22%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 851Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
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.
- Jan-1°74 mm
- Feb-1°62 mm
- Mar1°59 mm
- Apr4°44 mm
- May8°64 mm
- Jun12°68 mm
- Jul14°75 mm
- Aug14°79 mm
- Sep10°57 mm
- Oct6°61 mm
- Nov3°70 mm
- Dec0°77 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Hofgarten.
Public park in Düsseldorf
Hofgarten is a protected forest in Germany.
Seen from space, 22% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
851 species have been recorded around it: 595 plants, 65 fungi, 176 birds and 15 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Dogwood and Ground-ivy.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Rheinterrasse/Tonhallecampsite · 0.9 km · 12 within 10 km
- Max Brown Düsseldorfplace to stay · 0.7 km · 328 within 10 km
- Düsseldorfnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight line
- Düsseldorf Airport (DUS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire at DUS airport (Düsseldorf)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 18marked trails within 5 km[Dreieck] Benrath-Eller, [D] Düsseldorfer Weg, [Volldreieck] Eller - Volksgarten and 15 more
- 47named and notable trees within 6 kmBaumhasel zur Erinnerung an Seligsprechung Kolpings and 46 more
- 67picnic sites within 4 km
- 697shelters and huts within 6 kmOktogon and 696 more
- 21viewpoints within 5 kmRather Blick, QOMO, Rheinturm and 18 more
- 4visitor centres within 6 kmInfo Schadow Arkaden, Tourist-Information - Visit Düsseldorf, DB Reisezentrum and 1 more
- 1,116car parks within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmRheinterrasse/Tonhalle, Campingplatz Düsseldorf-Lörick, Caravan Center and 9 more
- 328places to stay within 10 kmMax Brown Düsseldorf, Weidenhof, Hotel Lindenhof and 325 more
- 932restaurants 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 Hofgarten.
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.
Peakyas24 mountains within 25 kmSandberg165 m · 11 kmJaberg110 m · 14 kmWenzeln-Berg112 m · 19 kmInrather Berg87 m · 22 kmKiesberg282 m · 24 kmNützenberg259 m · 24 kmSattelsberg207 m · 24 kmHülser Berg63 m · 24 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 kmUnterbacher See0.8 km² · 8.6 kmSilbersee0.2 km² · 9.3 kmAngermunder See0.5 km² · 10 kmElbsee1.1 km² · 10 kmStraberg-Nievenheimer See0.6 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmGalileum SolingenBortle 7 · 17 kmPlanetarium BarmenBortle 7 · 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonJaberg-Tower14 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyRhine1,233 km · 2,200 m³/s↗Angerbach36 kmItter20 kmLower RhineSchwarzbach27 kmHubertusbachNorfbach20 kmDie Wild
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Hofgarten
Germany
- 45Forestyas Score
- 22%Trees
- 57%Wild
- 851Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1623080) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 83,045 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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