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Ueckermünde Heath

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89% trees around it and 35 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km89%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded35

The forest around

89% 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 93%Grassland 6%Water 0%Trees 89%Grassland 8%Wetland 1%Water 2%Cropland 0%Trees 91%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Trees 61%Grassland 21%Wetland 2%Water 14%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%89%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km93%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km91%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water2%
  • 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

35 species recorded.

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

Hairy greenweed
Hairy greenweedGenista pilosa14 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea6 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pill sedge
Pill sedgeCarex pilulifera4 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 11:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gray Bog Sedge
Gray Bog SedgeCarex canescens3 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scorzoneroides autumnalis
Scorzoneroides autumnalisScorzoneroides autumnalis3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea3 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common water-crowfoot
Common water-crowfootRanunculus aquatilis2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Pearlwort spurrey
Pearlwort spurreySpergula morisonii2 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowbane
CowbaneCicuta virosa2 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Grassleaf starwort
Grassleaf starwortStellaria graminea2 recordsJohann Georg Sturm, Painted by Jacob Sturm ; published by Kurt Stüber, · 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.

75out of 100

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

  • 89%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 35Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan1°-3°54 mm
  2. Feb3°-3°41 mm
  3. Mar7°-1°42 mm
  4. Apr13°3°33 mm
  5. May18°8°55 mm
  6. Jun22°12°61 mm
  7. Jul24°15°85 mm
  8. Aug24°14°64 mm
  9. Sep20°10°52 mm
  10. Oct13°6°53 mm
  11. Nov7°2°50 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°53 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ueckermünde Heath.

German and Poland forest

Ueckermünde Heath is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 89% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

35 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 17 fungi, 7 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hairy greenweed, Whortleberry and Cowberry.

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

Ueckermuender-Heide-bei-Rothemuehl-30-06-2009-079
Botaurus · Public domain

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.

Ueckermünde Heath 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmSzlak Puszcza Wkrzańska im. Stefana "Taty" Kaczmarka, Szlak Ornitologów
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmPiaski
  • 11shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmFennhof, Rieth Hafen Wohnmobilstellplatz
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmAgroturystyka STAJNIA, Farma Zdrowia, Dworek przy Świdwiu and 16 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants 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 Ueckermünde Heath.

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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Kammer-Berge5.6 kmGrewings-Berge8.3 kmBeek Berge10 kmGarz-Berge10 kmKaulbarsch-Berg14 kmWitsche-Berg15 kmGlienken-Berg15 kmArkona Hill19 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Jezioro Piaski0.2 km² · 1.5 kmJezioro Karpino0.3 km² · 1.8 kmMyśliborskie Małe0.3 km² · 6.2 kmŚwidwie0.5 km² · 6.9 kmGroßer Mützelburger See1.0 km² · 7.5 kmLatzigsee0.3 km² · 15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Świdwie132 species · 6.9 kmUeckermünder Heide9.8 kmBinnendünen und Wälder bei Altwarp14 kmKoblentzer See19 kmKleines Haff, Neuwarper See und Riether Werder23 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.

0904 Pusz Wkrzan ZPL
Mateusz War. · CC BY-SA 3.0
0905 Puszcza Wkrzańska AltTur ZPL
Mateusz War. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dąb Samotnik, Puszcza Wkrzańska 1
Hoa binh · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Ueckermünde Heath

Poland

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 35Species

Crooked Forest

Poland · 46 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 269Species

See the guide

Darß Forest

Germany · 152 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

See the guide

Spandauer Forst

Germany · 141 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,029Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q464494) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species210 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, Birdyas

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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