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Altdorf Forest

Mih · Public domain

51% trees around it and 259 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km83%
  • species recorded259
  • Altitude782 m

The forest around

51% 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 80%Grassland 15%Cropland 4%Trees 47%Grassland 40%Cropland 8%Built-up 5%Trees 42%Grassland 44%Water 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 3%Trees 40%Grassland 41%Water 0%Cropland 11%Built-up 9%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km80%
  • 1–3 km47%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km40%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees47%
  • Grassland40%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland8%
  • Built-up5%

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

259 species recorded.

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

Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera23 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata16 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red catchfly
Red catchflySilene dioica15 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cabbage Thistle
Cabbage ThistleCirsium oleraceum14 recordsDiAuras · CC BY-SA 4.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum12 recordsJopi · Public domain
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria12 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Water Avens
Water AvensGeum rivale11 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea10 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cardamine pentaphyllos
Cardamine pentaphyllosCardamine pentaphyllos10 recordsPatrice78500 · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica9 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium9 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common nipplewort
Common nipplewortLapsana communis8 recordsԱրարատ Թրվանց · 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.

60out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 83%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 259Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 782 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. Jan2°-4°75 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°58 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°70 mm
  4. Apr13°3°70 mm
  5. May17°8°120 mm
  6. Jun21°12°124 mm
  7. Jul23°14°130 mm
  8. Aug22°13°131 mm
  9. Sep18°9°89 mm
  10. Oct13°5°77 mm
  11. Nov7°0°68 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°76 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Altdorf Forest.

Forested, low mountain ridge between Aulendorf and Vogt in the county of Ravensburg in the German state of Baden-Württemberg

Altdorf Forest is a forest in Germany, 782 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 83% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

259 species have been recorded around it: 144 plants, 7 fungi, 103 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Himalayan Balsam, Garlic Mustard and Red catchfly.

The best time to walk is in September.

Langmoosweiher
Mih · 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.

Altdorf Forest 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

  • 34marked trails within 5 kmAmtzell Wanderweg 3, Oberschwäbischer Jakobsweg (1), Rundwanderweg 2 Gemeinde Grünkraut and 31 more
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmPius-Linde, Leo-Linde, Johannes-Paul-Linde and 9 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 14shelters and huts within 6 kmEggenhütte, Rauhütte, Lost and 11 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmKohlenberg, Zundelbacher Linde, Aussichtsturm and 2 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 50car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmJugendzeltplatz Nessenreben, Loretopark, Reisemobilstellplatz Buechelwiesen and 5 more
  • 58places to stay within 10 kmPension König Wilhelm, Zur Einkehr, Gasthaus Adler and 55 more
  • 10restaurants 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 Altdorf Forest.

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.

Peakyas233 mountains within 25 km
Ziegelberg768 m · 16 kmHaidgauer Berg764 m · 18 kmWachbühl793 m · 21 kmKapf805 m · 22 kmGehrenberg752 m · 23 kmP.815815 m · 23 kmHöchsten843 m · 25 kmP.846846 m · 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Rohrsee0.5 km² · 14 kmWuhrmühleweiher0.2 km² · 14 kmArgensee0.2 km² · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Wangen Tower13 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall in Weißenbronn6.9 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.

FFH-BW-RV-Altdorfer Wald-NWL-1
KlaraLang · CC BY-SA 3.0
FFH-BW-RV-Altdorfer Wald-NWL-2
KlaraLang · CC BY-SA 3.0
FFH-BW-RV-Gebiet Altdorfer Wald-NL7
NorbertWLang · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Altdorf Forest

Germany

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 259Species

Holzstöcke

Germany · 45 km

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 73%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 105Species

See the guide

Schönbuch

Germany · 103 km

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

See the guide

King's House on Schachen

Germany · 111 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 615Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q435245) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,930 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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