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Black Forest High Forest

Jörg Braukmann · CC BY-SA 4.0

77% trees around it and 228 species recorded.

75Forestyas Score

ForestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km89%
  • species recorded228
  • Altitude529 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 96%Grassland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 75%Grassland 17%Cropland 5%Built-up 3%Trees 73%Grassland 16%Water 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 5%Trees 69%Grassland 20%Cropland 8%Built-up 3%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km75%
  • 3–6 km73%
  • 6–10 km69%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees75%
  • Grassland17%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland5%
  • Built-up3%

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

228 species recorded.

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

Greater butterfly-orchid
Greater butterfly-orchidPlatanthera chlorantha18 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata12 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red-berried Elder
Red-berried ElderSambucus racemosa11 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica10 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea10 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia10 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia9 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria8 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa8 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium7 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare7 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara7 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5

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).

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 228Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 529 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°-3°74 mm
  2. Feb4°-2°61 mm
  3. Mar8°0°62 mm
  4. Apr14°3°47 mm
  5. May18°8°75 mm
  6. Jun22°11°69 mm
  7. Jul24°13°68 mm
  8. Aug24°13°75 mm
  9. Sep20°9°57 mm
  10. Oct14°5°68 mm
  11. Nov7°2°73 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°89 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Black Forest High Forest.

Region of the Hunsrück mountains in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Black Forest High Forest is a forest in Germany, 529 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

228 species have been recorded around it: 115 plants, 2 fungi, 93 birds and 18 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Greater butterfly-orchid, Garlic Mustard and Red-berried Elder.

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

Erbeskopf von Westen
Jörg Braukmann · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Black Forest High 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

  • 26marked trails within 5 kmSaar-Hunsrück-Steig, Kell 1, Hermeskeil 3 and 23 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmWinterlinde, Eiche, 2 Mammutbäume and 3 more
  • 24picnic sites within 4 km
  • 40shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzhütte, Schutzhütte 5, Schutzhütte 6 and 37 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmOstermanns Ruh and 4 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information Hermeskeil
  • 29car parks within 3 km
  • 16campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Alter Sportplatz Nonnweiler, Wohnmobilstellplatz "Am Labachweg", Trekkingcamp Keltenlager and 13 more
  • 247places to stay within 10 kmGasthaus Feid, Ferienwohnung Casa-Bola, DJH Jugendherberge Hermeskeil and 244 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 Black Forest High 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.

Peakyas212 mountains within 25 km
Dollberg695 m · 6.5 kmRösterkopf708 m · 9.3 kmSchimmelkopf695 m · 9.4 kmSandkopf757 m · 9.9 kmFriedrichskopf707 m · 11 kmRuppelstein763 m · 13 kmErbeskopf816 m · 17 kmKahlheid766 m · 20 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Talsperre Nonnweiler0.7 km² · 4.4 kmBostalsee1.0 km² · 12 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Leasure Park Neunkirchen Observation Tower12 km
Birdyas12 birding sites within 25 km
Nördlich Oberlöstern3.4 kmWadrilltal4.9 kmLöstertal5.5 kmNoswendeler Bruch9.6 kmBostalsee12 kmNSG Kuhnenwald-Huhngrund17 kmSaarhölzbachtal - Zunkelsbruch23 kmNaturschutzgroßvorhaben Ill24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Black Forest High Forest

Germany

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 228Species

Idar Forest

Germany · 32 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 187Species

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Grünewald

Luxembourg · 54 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,522Species

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Warndt

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  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 362Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2254551) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,838 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, Viewyas, 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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