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Schlosspark Nymphenburg

D. Fuchsberger · CC BY-SA 3.0

48% trees around it and 1,332 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km48%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded1,332
  • Altitude521 m

The forest around

48% 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 10%Water 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 10%Trees 44%Grassland 5%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 49%Trees 35%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 47%Trees 42%Grassland 12%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 30%48%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km35%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up49%

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

1,332 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata702 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea550 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum549 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria505 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum472 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra463 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata454 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping cinquefoilPotentilla reptans454 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
European mistletoe
European mistletoeViscum album440 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua432 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens432 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata423 recordssannse · 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.

57out of 100

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

  • 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,332Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 521 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°76 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°59 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°69 mm
  4. Apr14°3°68 mm
  5. May18°8°123 mm
  6. Jun22°12°137 mm
  7. Jul23°14°134 mm
  8. Aug23°13°139 mm
  9. Sep18°9°92 mm
  10. Oct14°5°77 mm
  11. Nov8°0°62 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Schlosspark Nymphenburg.

Park of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich

Schlosspark Nymphenburg is a protected forest in Germany, 521 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,332 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 156 fungi, 160 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Dogwood and Herb bennet.

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

Alte Linde im Schlosspark Nymphenburg (München), August 2012
D. Fuchsberger · 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.

Schlosspark Nymphenburg 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 kmKulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Dritter Spaziergang, Münchner Jakobskirchenweg, Münchner Umweltwanderweg - Südliche Isarauen and 2 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmRöth-Linde, Die Bäckerlinde, Prof. Fromherz-Emeritus-Baum and 17 more
  • 140picnic sites within 4 km
  • 863shelters and huts within 6 kmParapluie, Wetterpilz and 861 more
  • 21viewpoints within 5 kmBavaria and 20 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmInfocenter U5 Bau
  • 891car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmThe Tent, Wohnwagenstellplatz am Neubruch, Campingplatz Obermenzing and 7 more
  • 478places to stay within 10 kmCarmen, Hotel Würmtaler, k+k Hotel and 475 more
  • 249restaurants 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 Schlosspark Nymphenburg.

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.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Perlacher Mugl12 kmFröttmaninger Berg75 m · 12 kmParsberg569 m · 13 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 15 kmMünchener Berg16 kmSchloß-Berg23 kmAschberg24 kmNeufarner Berg552 m · 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Karlsfelder See0.2 km² · 9.0 kmOberschleißheim Regatta Course0.4 km² · 9.8 kmFeringasee0.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Universitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 8.6 kmBavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 9.4 kmESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 17 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Chinese Tower7.4 kmHi-Sky9.3 kmAussicht Schlossplatz Dachau504 m · 12 kmDamit alles fließt493 m · 12 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Ismaninger Speichersee und Fischteiche20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München7.2 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.

Park Nymphenburg
Florian Adler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Muenchen Nymphenburg Bruecke-3
Rufus46 · CC BY-SA 3.0
2008-07-15Muenchen Nymphenburgerpark abgesenkte Gartenmauer
Usien · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Schlosspark Nymphenburg

Germany

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 1,332Species

Forstenrieder Park

Germany · 13 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,176Species

See the guide

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 15 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,141Species

See the guide

Perlacher Forst

Germany · 12 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q268492) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species132,842 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, Birdyas, Cascadyas

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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