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Laxenburg castles

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13% trees around it and 1,001 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km13%
  • wild within 10 km34%
  • species recorded1,001
  • Altitude187 m

The forest around

13% 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 44%Grassland 11%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 17%Trees 9%Grassland 10%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 59%Built-up 21%Trees 11%Grassland 12%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 57%Built-up 18%Trees 25%Grassland 13%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 41%Built-up 20%13%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km9%
  • 3–6 km11%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees9%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland59%
  • Built-up21%

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

1,001 species recorded.

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

European bladdernut
European bladdernutStaphylea pinnata133 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
False hellebore
False helleboreAdonis vernalis101 recordsMartin Bahmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas69 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica63 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Burning Bush
Burning BushDictamnus albus61 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Pasque Flower
Greater Pasque FlowerPulsatilla grandis58 recordsEleassar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima57 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana53 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea47 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum43 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
St Lucie Cherry
St Lucie CherryPrunus mahaleb39 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Victor M. Vicente Selvas assumed (based on copyright · Public domain
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus38 recordsИгоревич · 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.

39out of 100

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

  • 13%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 34%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,001Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 187 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. Jan2°-5°42 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°38 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°46 mm
  4. Apr15°4°41 mm
  5. May20°9°85 mm
  6. Jun24°13°91 mm
  7. Jul26°15°88 mm
  8. Aug26°15°86 mm
  9. Sep20°10°79 mm
  10. Oct14°5°54 mm
  11. Nov8°1°45 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°42 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Laxenburg castles.

Building in Laxenburg, Austria

Laxenburg castles is a protected forest in Austria.

Seen from space, 13% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 34% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,001 species have been recorded around it: 793 plants, 85 fungi, 114 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European bladdernut, False hellebore and Dogwood.

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

Filmarchiv Austria Laxenburg DSC 4727w
P e z i · CC BY-SA 3.0 at

Get there and walk

  • Reisemobil-Stellplatz Wiencampsite · 8.5 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Gasthof Broschekplace to stay · 2.1 km · 100 within 10 km
  • Laxenburgnearest town · 0.4 km in a straight line
  • Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 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.

Laxenburg castles 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

  • 49marked trails within 5 kmWienerwald-IML Wanderweg 1, Thallern, Guntramsdorf - Anninger Schutzhaus, Playfit Runde (Guntramsdorf) and 46 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmLiegende Eiche, Biedermannsdorfer Kaiserkastanie, Schillereiche and 4 more
  • 29picnic sites within 4 km
  • 80shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 259car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmReisemobil-Stellplatz Wien
  • 100places to stay within 10 kmGasthof Broschek, HB1 - Hotel, Andrea's Appartement and 97 more
  • 23restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Laxenburg castles.

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.

Peakyas240 mountains within 25 km
Anninger675 m · 8.6 kmHöllenstein645 m · 13 kmSooßer Lindkogel713 m · 17 kmHoher Lindkogel834 m · 18 kmHermannskogel544 m · 23 kmPeilstein716 m · 23 kmKahlenberg484 m · 24 kmLeopoldsberg425 m · 24 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 km
Franz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 7.4 kmSterngartenBortle 7 · 12 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 16 kmVienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 17 kmKuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 17 kmVienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 19 kmPurgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 26 km
Viewyas7 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Wilhelmswarte8.6 kmJubiläumswarte653 m · 8.7 kmSittnerwarte420 m · 9.3 kmTheresienwarte11 kmJosefswarte, Perchtoldsdorf11 kmCastle ruins of Rauheneck13 kmHöllensteinhaus645 m · 13 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Schwechat70 kmTriesting60 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.

Altes Schloss Schlosspark Laxenburg
HeinzLW · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Franzensburg Schlosspark Laxenburg
Hendric Stattmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
Laxenburg - Lichtergarten im Schlosspark (Illumina)
C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Laxenburg castles

Austria

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 34%Wild
  • 1,001Species

Vienna Woods

Austria · 33 km

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

See the guide

Maurer Wald

Austria · 13 km

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

See the guide

Krapfenwaldl

Austria · 22 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q380298) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species9,832 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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

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