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Klövensteen

Frank Schwichtenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0

58% trees around it and 654 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km58%
  • wild within 10 km82%
  • species recorded654

The forest around

58% 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 76%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 56%Grassland 28%Cropland 6%Built-up 10%Trees 36%Grassland 32%Wetland 0%Water 16%Cropland 7%Built-up 8%Trees 36%Grassland 34%Wetland 0%Water 10%Cropland 7%Built-up 13%58%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km56%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees56%
  • Grassland28%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up10%

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

654 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata156 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon110 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus72 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora67 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus65 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea61 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana52 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica49 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia47 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Bouncingbet
BouncingbetSaponaria officinalis44 recordsImg · Public domain
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus44 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus43 recordsKarduelis · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

67out of 100

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

  • 58%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 82%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 654Speciesrecorded 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.

  1. Jan3°-2°70 mm
  2. Feb4°-2°54 mm
  3. Mar8°0°50 mm
  4. Apr14°4°40 mm
  5. May18°8°58 mm
  6. Jun21°11°70 mm
  7. Jul23°14°84 mm
  8. Aug22°13°71 mm
  9. Sep19°10°58 mm
  10. Oct13°6°63 mm
  11. Nov8°3°63 mm
  12. Dec4°0°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Klövensteen.

Forest in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Klövensteen is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 58% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 82% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

654 species have been recorded around it: 390 plants, 63 fungi, 180 birds and 21 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Yellow Archangel and European bird cherry.

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

Kövensteen Waldweg 01
Frank Schwichtenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Klövensteen 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

  • 14marked trails within 5 kmEuropean Long distance path E1 - part Germany, Hamburg, Wanderweg Schlei-Eider-Elbe / Fernwanderweg E1, Schleswig-Holstein, Westvariante, Jakobsweg via Baltica, Hamburg and 11 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmDoppeleiche, Berg-Ahorn im Hirschpark
  • 43picnic sites within 4 km
  • 40shelters and huts within 6 kmWetterpilz and 39 more
  • 32viewpoints within 5 kmNaturschutzgebiet Butterbargsmoor, Zum Elbblick, Rotwild and 29 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmUser Office, Lighthouse Erlebniszentrum European XFEL, Reception
  • 299car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmElbeCamp, Die Badebucht, Wohnmobilstellplatz Neuenschleuse and 6 more
  • 159places to stay within 10 kmHotel Kreuzer, Hotel Diamant, Hotel Freihof am Roland and 156 more
  • 40restaurants 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 Klövensteen.

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.

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Baursberg92 m · 4.3 kmWaseberg5.1 kmSüllberg75 m · 5.5 kmHasselbrack116 m · 20 kmKiekeberg127 m · 20 kmLanger Stein129 m · 21 kmHülsenberg155 m · 22 kmGannaberg155 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Alte Süderelbe0.5 km² · 9.6 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Hamburg PlanetariumBortle 9 · 17 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.

Geschiebestein Försterei Klövensteen 01
Frank Schwichtenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0
Klövensteen 02
Huhu Uet · CC BY-SA 3.0
Klövensteen Naturschild 2014
Marseille77 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Klövensteen

Germany

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 654Species

Sachsenwald

Germany · 42 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 66%Wild
  • 253Species

See the guide

Buchholz

Germany · 45 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 226Species

See the guide

Hahnheide

Germany · 46 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 380Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1493217) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21,016 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, 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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