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Oderwald

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

10% trees around it and 223 species recorded.

27Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km10%
  • wild within 10 km29%
  • species recorded223
  • Altitude86 m

The forest around

10% 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 16%Grassland 10%Cropland 64%Built-up 10%Trees 9%Grassland 17%Water 1%Cropland 71%Built-up 2%Trees 20%Grassland 12%Water 1%Cropland 63%Built-up 4%Trees 18%Grassland 9%Water 0%Cropland 69%Built-up 3%10%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km16%
  • 1–3 km9%
  • 3–6 km20%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees9%
  • Grassland17%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland71%
  • Built-up2%

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

223 species recorded.

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

Dungwort
DungwortHelleborus foetidus83 recordsWildfeuer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring Snowflake
Spring SnowflakeLeucojum vernum33 recordsSmihael · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum16 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara13 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa10 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias8 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow star-of-bethlehem
Yellow star-of-bethlehemGagea lutea8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata8 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare7 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica6 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dyer's rocket
Dyer's rocketReseda luteola6 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Bouncingbet
BouncingbetSaponaria officinalis6 recordsImg · 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.

27out of 100

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

  • 10%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 29%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 223Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 86 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-3°68 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°45 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°50 mm
  4. Apr14°3°38 mm
  5. May18°8°66 mm
  6. Jun22°11°61 mm
  7. Jul24°14°85 mm
  8. Aug24°13°63 mm
  9. Sep19°9°58 mm
  10. Oct13°5°56 mm
  11. Nov7°2°61 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Oderwald.

Samtgemeinde in Lower Saxony

Oderwald is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 10% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 29% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

223 species have been recorded around it: 89 plants, 2 fungi, 125 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dungwort, Spring Snowflake and Ramsons.

The best time to walk is in September.

Oderwald seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Oderwald 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E6, Deutschland, Niedersachsen, Trimm-Dich-Pfad,, Königsweg Brüggen - Werla (Etappe 4 Jerstedt - Werla) and 2 more
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 23shelters and huts within 6 kmMonopteros and 22 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km20 Jahre Deutsche Einheit
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 22car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilpark Okeraue
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmAlte Schmiede, Ferienwohnung "Villa Reischel", Hotel und Restaurant Schützenhof and 15 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees 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 Oderwald.

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.

Peakyas241 mountains within 25 km
Elfenstein475 m · 21 kmRammelsberg635 m · 22 kmHuthberg605 m · 23 kmSidekum654 m · 24 kmHerzberg632 m · 24 kmDicker Kopf670 m · 24 kmPieptalsberg667 m · 24 kmEichenberg670 m · 24 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Okertal bei Vienenburg11 kmFallsteingebiet nördlich Osterwieck13 kmHeerter See14 kmInnerstetal von Langelsheim bis Groß Düngen20 kmLengeder Teiche23 kmRiddagshäuser Teiche23 kmKlippen im Okertal23 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Oker105 kmFuhse100 kmIlse43 kmWarnebach24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Oderwald

Germany

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 29%Wild
  • 223Species

Lappwald

Germany · 38 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 251Species

See the guide

Sackwald

Germany · 47 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 896Species

See the guide

Elm

Germany · 18 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 41%Wild
  • 270Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q516969) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,152 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, Birdyas, Riveryas

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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