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Klever Reichswald

Bj.schoenmakers · CC BY-SA 3.0

76% trees around it and 829 species recorded.

70Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km76%
  • wild within 10 km68%
  • species recorded829
  • Altitude69 m

The forest around

76% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 73%Grassland 8%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 14%Built-up 1%Trees 39%Grassland 31%Water 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 7%Trees 31%Grassland 30%Water 3%Cropland 28%Built-up 8%76%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km73%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees73%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland14%
  • 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

829 species recorded.

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

Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus878 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sharpflower rush
Sharpflower rushJuncus acutiflorus797 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sweet vernal grass
Sweet vernal grassAnthoxanthum odoratum784 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris701 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre671 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Purple-loosestrife
Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria603 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil
Greater Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus pedunculatus597 recordsMimi und Ruebi · CC BY 4.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria596 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Common buttercup
Common buttercupRanunculus acris552 recordsAlinja · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lesser pond sedge
Lesser pond sedgeCarex acutiformis513 recordsThis photography was created by Artem Topchiy (user Art-top ). Other photos see here This · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis501 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brown bent
Brown bentAgrostis canina500 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

70out of 100

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

  • 76%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 829Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 69 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. Jan5°-1°76 mm
  2. Feb6°-1°62 mm
  3. Mar10°1°58 mm
  4. Apr15°4°42 mm
  5. May19°8°61 mm
  6. Jun22°12°64 mm
  7. Jul24°14°76 mm
  8. Aug23°13°80 mm
  9. Sep20°10°57 mm
  10. Oct15°7°64 mm
  11. Nov9°3°72 mm
  12. Dec5°0°79 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Klever Reichswald.

Forest in Kleve district, Germany

Klever Reichswald is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 76% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

829 species have been recorded around it: 643 plants, 10 fungi, 167 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Yorkshire-fog, Sharpflower rush and Sweet vernal grass.

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

Reichswald
Bj.schoenmakers · 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.

Klever Reichswald 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

  • 132marked trails within 5 kmX7 Kleverlandweg, Rhein-Niers-Fleuth-Weg, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E8, Nordrhein-Westfalen and 129 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmVierstämmige Eiche, Siebenstämmige Buche, Dicke Buche and 2 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 33shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmBäume des Jahres, Brandenberg and 6 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Info Center Alter Bahnhof, VVV Gennep, Martinustoren and 1 more
  • 8car parks within 3 km
  • 41campsites within 10 kmCamping de Leigraaf, Camping de Zoete Aagt, Wohnmobilstellplatz Kranenburg and 38 more
  • 130places to stay within 10 kmHünnekes, Wolfsberg e.V. Jugendtagungsstätte, Nimweger Tor and 127 more
  • restaurants 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 Klever Reichswald.

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.

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Gelden-Berg89 m · 2.7 kmWolfsberg7.4 kmDuivelsberg76 m · 9.5 kmEltenberg82 m · 17 kmHulzenberg20 kmPauls-Berg21 kmMotte Montferland23 kmHettenheuvel24 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Mookerplas0.5 km² · 6.8 kmDe Bijland2.3 km² · 14 kmBisonbaai0.4 km² · 14 kmOude Waal0.2 km² · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Aussichtsturm Klever Berg8.3 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.

Rupenberg
Atitlan~nlwiki · CC BY-SA 4.0
Feld am Reichswaldrand 20080628
Sjaak Kempe · CC BY 2.0
Hunting Stand, Reichswald, Germany
Bj.schoenmakers · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Klever Reichswald

Germany

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 76%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 829Species

Grafenwald

Germany · 64 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 573Species

See the guide

Hürtgen Forest

Germany · 118 km

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

See the guide

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 132 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q870039) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species42,401 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, Viewyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here