Germany forest
Schurwald
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58% trees around it and 768 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km58%
- wild within 10 km65%
- species recorded768
- Altitude528 m
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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km94%
- 1–3 km53%
- 3–6 km39%
- 6–10 km48%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees53%
- Grassland31%
- Water0%
- Cropland5%
- Built-up11%
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
768 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
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
- 65%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 768Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 528 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.
- Jan-3°67 mm
- Feb-3°50 mm
- Mar0°56 mm
- Apr4°46 mm
- May8°84 mm
- Jun12°69 mm
- Jul14°82 mm
- Aug14°78 mm
- Sep9°54 mm
- Oct5°64 mm
- Nov1°63 mm
- Dec-2°70 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Schurwald.
Mountain range
Schurwald is a forest in Germany, 528 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 58% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 65% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
768 species have been recorded around it: 526 plants, 84 fungi, 138 birds and 20 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Common borage and Whitetop.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Idler Weingut Stellplatzcampsite · 3.6 km · 11 within 10 km
- Hotel am Bergplace to stay · 4.5 km · 216 within 10 km
- Fellbachnearest town · 3.8 km in a straight line
- Stuttgart Airport (STR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at STR airport (Stuttgart)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 68marked trails within 5 kmEsslinger Höhenweg, Waiblinger Rundwanderweg, Stuttgarter Rundwanderweg - Rößleweg and 65 more
- 42named and notable trees within 6 kmFriedenslinde, Drosselweg, Rotbuche and 39 more
- 41picnic sites within 4 kmKappelberg, Grillplatz and 39 more
- 174shelters and huts within 6 kmGehrenwald, Im Hag, Alter Friedhof and 171 more
- 38viewpoints within 5 kmTorbogen "Tor ins Remstal", Karlstein, Sandburg and 35 more
- 7visitor centres within 6 kmInformation, Besucherzentrum, DB Video-Reisezentrum and 4 more
- 193car parks within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmIdler Weingut Stellplatz, Weingut Knauß - Weinstadt, Wohnmobilstellplätze Äußerer Burgplatz and 8 more
- 216places to stay within 10 kmHotel am Berg, Adler, Insel and 213 more
- 63restaurants 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 Schurwald.
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.
Peakyas97 mountains within 25 kmKernen513 m · this placeBopser485 m · 10 kmBirkenkopf511 m · 13 kmUhlberg470 m · 18 kmBernhartshöhe549 m · 19 kmBetzenberg500 m · 22 kmHohenbol602 m · 24 kmTeckberg775 m · 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 kmStuttgart ObservatoryBortle 8 · 8.4 kmCarl-Zeiss-Planetarium StuttgartBortle 8 · 9.1 kmUniversitätssternwarte PfaffenwaldBortle 8 · 16 km
Viewyas16 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonTor ins Remstal335 m · 1.5 km↗Sieben Linden2.7 km↗Kleinheppacher Kopf7.6 km↗Eugensplatz8.9 km↗Observation Tower Burgholzhof9.4 km↗Kriegsberg Tower10 km↗Killesberg Tower10 km↗Santiago-de-Chile-Platz11 km↗
Birdyas6 birding sites within 25 kmUnteres Remstal216 species · 9.1 km↗Vogelinsel Max-Eyth-See210 species · 9.3 km↗Grienwiesen und Wernauer Baggerseen166 species · 12 km↗Streuobst- und Weinberggebiete zwischen Geradstetten, Rudersberg und Waldhausen145 species · 16 km↗Pleidelsheimer Wiesental mit Altneckar195 species · 20 km↗Vorland der mittleren Schwäbischen Alb112 species · 22 km↗
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmHeslacher Wasserfälle14 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.
Other forests nearby.
Schurwald
Germany
- 61Forestyas Score
- 58%Trees
- 65%Wild
- 768Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1267366) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 25,606 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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