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Winkelhofer Forst

Lothur · CC0

77% trees around it and 791 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded791
  • Altitude411 m

The forest around

77% 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 97%Grassland 2%Water 0%Cropland 1%Trees 74%Grassland 11%Cropland 13%Built-up 1%Trees 64%Grassland 16%Water 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 3%Trees 58%Grassland 15%Water 0%Cropland 24%Built-up 2%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km74%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees74%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland13%
  • Built-up1%

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

791 species recorded.

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

Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria109 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Cabbage Thistle
Cabbage ThistleCirsium oleraceum89 recordsDiAuras · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood club-rush
Wood club-rushScirpus sylvaticus80 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus73 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa72 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica72 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser pond sedge
Lesser pond sedgeCarex acutiformis69 recordsThis photography was created by Artem Topchiy (user Art-top ). Other photos see here This · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus65 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple-loosestrife
Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria64 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Raspberry
RaspberryRubus idaeus61 recordsmako from Kangasala, Suomi (Finland) · CC BY 2.0
Brown sedge
Brown sedgeCarex disticha59 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:37, 23 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hardheads
HardheadsCentaurea jacea58 recordsde:Benutzer:Tigerente · 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.

74out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 791Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 411 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°-4°60 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°47 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°49 mm
  4. Apr14°3°38 mm
  5. May19°8°74 mm
  6. Jun23°12°62 mm
  7. Jul26°14°78 mm
  8. Aug25°14°67 mm
  9. Sep20°9°54 mm
  10. Oct14°5°55 mm
  11. Nov7°1°61 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°65 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Winkelhofer Forst.

Unincorporated area in Germany

Winkelhofer Forst is a forest in Germany, 411 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

791 species have been recorded around it: 724 plants, 4 fungi, 63 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Queen of the meadow, Cabbage Thistle and Wood club-rush.

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

Kreuzstein Winkelhof
Lothur · CC0

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.

Winkelhofer Forst 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

  • 38marked trails within 5 kmKelten-Erlebnisweg, Steigerwald Panoramaweg, Rundweg "Großbirkach" and 35 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmKaisereiche, Friedenslinde, 2 Linden and 6 more
  • 6picnic sites within 4 km
  • 21shelters and huts within 6 kmPavillon, Info-Pavillon and 19 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmBaumwipfelpfad Turm
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmTouristinformation, Information 1, Information 2 and 1 more
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 21campsites within 10 kmKlinge, Winkelhof, Campingplatz Weihersee, Waldhaus, Schmerb and 18 more
  • 58places to stay within 10 kmHistorikhotel Klosterbräu Ebrach, Gästehaus Leonie, Gaststube Krone and 55 more
  • 2restaurants 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 Winkelhofer Forst.

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
Stollberg476 m · 9.1 kmGreuther Berg457 m · 12 kmGangolfsberg469 m · 14 kmZabelstein489 m · 15 kmSandberg481 m · 15 kmRoßberg477 m · 16 kmGroßer Knetzberg488 m · 16 kmSchwanberg474 m · 20 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Dr.-Remeis-SternwarteBortle 7 · 28 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Oberer Steigerwald12 kmSüdliches Steigerwaldvorland82 species · 15 kmMaintal zwischen Schweinfurt und Dettelbach228 species · 17 kmOchsenfurter und Uffenheimer Gau und Gäulandschaft NÖ Würzburg19 kmSchweinfurter Becken und nördliches Steigerwaldvorland231 species · 20 kmMainaue zwischen Eltmann und Haßfurt21 kmSüdlicher Steigerwald23 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.

SE Eberau
Lothur · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Winkelhofer Forst

Germany

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 791Species

Haurain

Germany · 80 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 580Species

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 69 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 956Species

See the guide

Veldensteiner Forst

Germany · 74 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,119Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q9375210) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,890 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, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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