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Hürtgen Forest

Michael Fiegle at German Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

89% trees around it and 312 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km89%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded312
  • Altitude394 m

The forest around

89% 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 98%Grassland 2%Trees 87%Grassland 12%Built-up 0%Trees 78%Grassland 18%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 58%Grassland 32%Water 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 6%89%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km78%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Grassland12%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

312 species recorded.

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

Thrift seapink
Thrift seapinkArmeria maritima40 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara31 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Lily-of-the-valley
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis28 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia24 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum24 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dane's Blood
Dane's BloodCampanula glomerata24 recordsDag Lindgren · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca23 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata21 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rabelera holostea
Rabelera holosteaRabelera holostea20 recordsiNaturalist.org (spoonbilling) · CC BY 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica20 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense19 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris18 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 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.

81out of 100

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

  • 89%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 312Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 394 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan2°-2°86 mm
  2. Feb3°-2°76 mm
  3. Mar7°0°72 mm
  4. Apr12°3°53 mm
  5. May16°7°77 mm
  6. Jun20°10°79 mm
  7. Jul22°12°84 mm
  8. Aug22°12°90 mm
  9. Sep18°8°66 mm
  10. Oct13°5°70 mm
  11. Nov7°2°78 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hürtgen Forest.

Forest in Germany

Hürtgen Forest is a forest in Germany, 394 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 89% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

312 species have been recorded around it: 208 plants, 9 fungi, 85 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Thrift seapink, Coltsfoot and Lily-of-the-valley.

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

Hürtgenwald Sägewerk in Zweifall
Michael Fiegle at German Wikipedia · 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.

Hürtgen 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

  • 54marked trails within 5 kmKupferroute, Jakobs-Pilgerweg Köln - Aachen, Kall Trail and 51 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmKartoffelbaum, Napoleonsfichte and 5 more
  • 16picnic sites within 4 km
  • 43shelters and huts within 6 kmSimonskall, Im Rakkesch, Rita-Hütte and 40 more
  • 9viewpoints within 5 kmEifel-Blick Jägerhaus, Drei Eichen, Schlangenberg and 6 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmEhrenfriedhof Hürtgen, Infozentrum "Junkerhaus", Rureifel Infopunkt BABALU
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 23campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplätz Landhotel Kallbach, Jugendzeltplatz Rotterdell, Aufwärts! and 20 more
  • 69places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Birkenhof, Rheydter Hütte (DAV), Brunnenhof and 66 more
  • 1restaurants 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 Hürtgen 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.

Peakyas121 mountains within 25 km
Hill 400401 m · 10 kmWildbretshügel525 m · 12 kmSteling658 m · 15 kmVerbrannter Berg516 m · 15 kmEigart566 m · 20 kmVaalserberg322 m · 20 kmHohe Mark609 m · 23 kmDickelt569 m · 25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Wehebachtalsperre1.1 km² · 6.5 kmDreilägerbachtalsperre0.3 km² · 7.6 kmTalsperre Obermaubach0.4 km² · 9.9 kmRur Reservoir5.9 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Eifel National ParkBortle 4 · 13 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Krawutschke Tower10 kmBismarck Tower (Aachen)15 km
Birdyas6 birding sites within 25 km
Vogelschutzgebiet Kermeter-Hetzinger Wald128 species · 14 kmFagnes du Nord-Est134 species · 15 kmOsthertogenwald around Raeren113 species · 15 kmAffluents du lac d'Eupen131 species · 16 kmVogelschutzgebiet Buntsandsteinfelsen im Rurtal143 species · 16 kmVogelschutzgebiet Drover Heide168 species · 18 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.

202012161333a Hürtgenwald
Hartmann Linge · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hürtgenwald am Langschoß
Michael Fiegle at German Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kröngensgasse- Kreuzherrengasse, Ende, Blick nach Süden auf den Hürtgenwald, 30. 07. 2011 - panoramio
Michel Voss · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Hürtgen Forest

Germany

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 312Species

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 25 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 593Species

See the guide

Aachener Stadtforst

Germany · 16 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,024Species

See the guide

Zitter Forest

Belgium · 34 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 249Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q469253) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,441 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

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