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Krapfenwaldl

Michael Kranewitter · CC BY 2.5

66% trees around it and 2,015 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km66%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded2,015
  • Altitude356 m

The forest around

66% 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 67%Grassland 29%Built-up 4%Trees 65%Grassland 10%Water 6%Built-up 18%Trees 53%Grassland 6%Water 5%Cropland 2%Built-up 35%Trees 48%Grassland 8%Water 3%Cropland 10%Built-up 31%66%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km67%
  • 1–3 km65%
  • 3–6 km53%
  • 6–10 km48%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees65%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water6%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up18%

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

2,015 species recorded.

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

Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima273 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata269 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus236 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum233 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea233 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba215 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hepatica
HepaticaHepatica nobilis213 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana205 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica199 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre195 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas187 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leatherleaf Viburnum
Leatherleaf ViburnumViburnum rhytidophyllum181 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · 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.

66out of 100

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

  • 66%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,015Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 356 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-5°41 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°34 mm
  3. Mar10°-1°42 mm
  4. Apr16°4°37 mm
  5. May20°9°77 mm
  6. Jun25°14°80 mm
  7. Jul27°16°78 mm
  8. Aug27°15°76 mm
  9. Sep21°10°70 mm
  10. Oct15°5°47 mm
  11. Nov8°1°40 mm
  12. Dec3°-4°39 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Krapfenwaldl.

Forest in Vienna

Krapfenwaldl is a forest in Austria, 356 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 66% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,015 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 828 fungi, 165 birds and 22 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tree of heaven, Garlic Mustard and Greater Celandine.

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

Krapfenwaldl
Michael Kranewitter · CC BY 2.5

Get there and walk

  • Donaupark Camping Klosterneuburgcampsite · 5.0 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Jugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenauplace to stay · 4.2 km · 539 within 10 km
  • Döblingnearest town · 1.8 km in a straight line
  • Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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.

Krapfenwaldl 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

  • 104marked trails within 5 kmOstösterreichischer Grenzlandweg 07, Voralpenweg 04 (Südroute), Wanderweg 404 Wienerwald-Weitwanderweg and 101 more
  • 29named and notable trees within 6 kmMammutbaum, Bildereiche and 27 more
  • 288picnic sites within 4 kmHaschhof, Grillplatz 12 and 286 more
  • 607shelters and huts within 6 kmUnterstandshütte T.V.N. Klosterneuburg, Steinböck Hütte and 605 more
  • 37viewpoints within 5 kmHeimkehrer-Gedächtnismal, Schwarzes Kreuz, Cobenzl and 34 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmStadtmarketing & Tourismus, WUK Infobüro, Information and 2 more
  • 255car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmDonaupark Camping Klosterneuburg, Wohnmobilstellplatz am Bahnhof Kritzendorf, MICAMPA Wien Wienerwald and 2 more
  • 539places to stay within 10 kmJugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenau, Bellevue, Vienna-Apartment-One and 536 more
  • 157restaurants 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 Krapfenwaldl.

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.

Peakyas231 mountains within 25 km
Kahlenberg484 m · 1.2 kmVogelsangberg516 m · 1.7 kmLeopoldsberg425 m · 1.8 kmHermannskogel544 m · 2.7 kmExelberg516 m · 6.6 kmTroppberg542 m · 17 kmParapluieberg562 m · 18 kmHöllenstein645 m · 22 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Vienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 3.8 kmPurgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 4.7 kmKuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 6.6 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 7.2 kmVienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 7.3 kmSterngartenBortle 7 · 14 kmFranz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 28 km
Viewyas14 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Kahlenberg484 m · 1.2 kmHabsburgwarte2.8 kmPaulinenwarte3.5 kmDonauturm6.5 kmWiener Riesenrad7.3 kmHimmelhof10 kmWienerblick434 m · 11 kmLeopold-Figl-Warte14 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.

Krapfenwaldl Weg
Funke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Döbling (Wien) - Krapfenwaldlbad
C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0
2019-09-19 (123) Wiener Stadtwanderweg 1 - Bridge and Fingerposts at Wildgrubgasse, Vienna, Austria
GT1976 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Krapfenwaldl

Austria

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 2,015Species

Maurer Wald

Austria · 14 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

See the guide

Vienna Woods

Austria · 37 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Bratislavský lesný park

Slovakia · 57 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q21874750) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species56,859 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, Canyonyas

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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