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Stöcklewald

Uoaei1 · CC BY-SA 4.0

63% trees around it and 262 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km63%
  • wild within 10 km97%
  • species recorded262
  • Altitude1,068 m

The forest around

63% 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 90%Grassland 10%Built-up 0%Trees 60%Grassland 39%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 61%Grassland 35%Cropland 0%Built-up 3%Trees 71%Grassland 26%Cropland 1%Built-up 2%63%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km90%
  • 1–3 km60%
  • 3–6 km61%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees60%
  • Grassland39%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

262 species recorded.

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

Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera68 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica33 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticumMeum athamanticum32 recordsDr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé · Public domain
Silver Fir
Silver FirAbies alba30 recordsJerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus26 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia24 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Red catchfly
Red catchflySilene dioica20 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bride's feathers
Bride's feathersAruncus dioicus18 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella17 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies16 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria14 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant12 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 63%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 262Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,068 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. Jan1°-4°110 mm
  2. Feb2°-4°83 mm
  3. Mar7°-1°94 mm
  4. Apr13°2°80 mm
  5. May17°7°131 mm
  6. Jun21°10°110 mm
  7. Jul22°12°117 mm
  8. Aug22°12°114 mm
  9. Sep18°8°88 mm
  10. Oct13°4°111 mm
  11. Nov7°0°97 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°122 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Stöcklewald.

Commercial forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Stöcklewald is a forest in Germany, 1,068 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 63% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

262 species have been recorded around it: 127 plants, 50 fungi, 81 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Himalayan Balsam, European Beech and Meum athamanticum.

The best time to walk is in September.

Furtwangen Stöcklewaldturm 02
Uoaei1 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Zeltlagerplatz Stöcklewaldcampsite · 0.5 km · 26 within 10 km
  • Apartment No.61 "Black Forest Magic"place to stay · 3.6 km · 117 within 10 km
  • Schönwaldnearest town · 4.0 km in a straight line
  • Strasbourg Airport (SXB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 68 km in a straight lineCar hire at SXB airport (Strasbourg)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.

Stöcklewald 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

  • 255marked trails within 5 kmMittelweg, Querweg Schwarzwald-Kaiserstuhl-Rhein, Rundweg Bruderkirchle and 252 more
  • 8named and notable trees within 6 kmBergahorn, Schillertanne, Kohlplatztanne and 5 more
  • 14picnic sites within 4 km
  • 58shelters and huts within 6 kmBlindenhöhe, Kandelblickhütte and 56 more
  • 17viewpoints within 5 kmDreikaiserfelsen, Tribergblick, Hubertus-Felsen and 14 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information, Tourist-Information Triberg, Tourist Info and 2 more
  • 19car parks within 3 km
  • 26campsites within 10 kmZeltlagerplatz Stöcklewald, Gruppenunterkunft Kesselberghaus, Wohnmobilstellplatz am Skilift Dobel and 23 more
  • 117places to stay within 10 kmApartment No.61 "Black Forest Magic", Hotel Restaurant Pfaff, Storzjockelhof and 114 more
  • 4restaurants 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 Stöcklewald.

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.

Peakyas158 mountains within 25 km
Brend1,149 m · 7.3 kmRohrhardsberg1,153 m · 10 kmObereck1,178 m · 10 kmSattelhöhe1,216 m · 18 kmKandel1,241 m · 18 kmWeißtannenhöhe1,190 m · 20 kmRoßberg1,125 m · 21 kmHochfirst1,190 m · 22 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Black Forest ObservatoryBortle 3 · 27 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Stöcklewald Tower0.1 kmBrend Tower7.3 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Triberg Waterfalls4.2 kmZweribachwasserfälle13 kmHirschbach Falls13 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.

Furtwangen Stöcklewaldturm 01
Uoaei1 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Stöcklewald

Germany

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 262Species

Black Forest

Germany · 24 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 237Species

See the guide

Schönbuch

Germany · 81 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 507Species

See the guide

Forest of Hagenau

France · 89 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,168Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2360521) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,923 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, 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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