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Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial

Barbara Steinemann · CC BY-SA 4.0

65% trees around it and 1,564 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km65%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded1,564
  • Altitude401 m

The forest around

65% 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 78%Grassland 10%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 9%Trees 64%Grassland 14%Cropland 3%Built-up 19%Trees 51%Grassland 22%Water 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 17%Trees 51%Grassland 20%Water 2%Cropland 10%Built-up 17%65%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km78%
  • 1–3 km64%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km51%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees64%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up19%

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

1,564 species recorded.

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

Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus2,371 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Butterfly-bush
Butterfly-bushBuddleja davidii1,318 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Poterium sanguisorba
Poterium sanguisorbaPoterium sanguisorba775 recordsLidine Mia · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wild Carrot
Wild CarrotDaucus carota725 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Field scabiosa
Field scabiosaKnautia arvensis624 recordschelo Vechek / talk · CC BY-SA 4.0
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera621 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia586 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana583 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Oregano
OreganoOriganum vulgare573 recordsTopjabot · Public domain
Hop clover
Hop cloverMedicago lupulina571 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus570 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Giant Blackberry
Giant BlackberryRubus armeniacus564 recordsKatrin Schneider / korina.info · 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.

74out of 100

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

  • 65%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,564Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 401 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. Jan3°-4°75 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°60 mm
  3. Mar9°0°74 mm
  4. Apr14°3°75 mm
  5. May18°8°118 mm
  6. Jun22°12°105 mm
  7. Jul24°13°107 mm
  8. Aug23°13°110 mm
  9. Sep19°9°79 mm
  10. Oct14°5°94 mm
  11. Nov8°1°77 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°86 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial.

Archaeological site and English landscape garden in Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial is a protected forest in Switzerland, 401 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 65% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,564 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 354 fungi, 151 birds and 59 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eastern daisy fleabane, Butterfly-bush and Poterium sanguisorba.

The best time to walk is in September.

Einsiedlerei Eremitage Arlesheim
Barbara Steinemann · 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.

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial 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

  • 136marked trails within 5 kmBasler Jubiläumsweg, Frenkendorf - Pratteln, Jubiläumsweg and 133 more
  • 23named and notable trees within 6 kmRotfleischiger aus Kirgisien, Rothenhauser Holzapfel, Maunzenapfel and 20 more
  • 39picnic sites within 4 kmFeuerstelle, Einschlag, Froloo and 37 more
  • 159shelters and huts within 6 kmChöpfligruebe, Waldspielgruppe "Wichteli", Waldhütte By dä Lindä and 156 more
  • 33viewpoints within 5 kmGempenturm, Eggfluh, Biotop and 30 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmSBB-Reisezentrum
  • 246car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmCamping Waldhort Reinach, Camp Uf der Hollen, Stellplatz Lupsingen and 6 more
  • 116places to stay within 10 kmHotel Restaurant Mühle, Zur Brücke, Schweizerhof and 113 more
  • 60restaurants 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 Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial.

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.

Peakyas80 mountains within 25 km
Vogelberg1,204 m · 14 kmHinteri Egg1,169 m · 14 kmUpper Winde1,204 m · 17 kmRuchen (Jura Mountains)1,123 m · 20 kmBelchenflue1,099 m · 20 kmWisenberg1,002 m · 21 kmHornegg1,225 m · 22 kmChamben1,251 m · 24 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
St. Margarethen observatoryBortle 8 · 6.6 kmJura ObservatoryBortle 4 · 22 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Gempenturm1.9 kmSchlaich Tower11 kmEigenturm12 kmVitra Slide Tower12 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Tüllinger Berg und Gleusen13 kmRheinniederung Haltingen–Neuenburg mit Vorbergzone182 species · 25 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Schalberg Ruins5.4 kmBüttenloch Cave6.9 kmTschamberhöhle18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Fahler Wasserfall3.5 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Ill217 km · 54 m³/sBirs73 km · 8.2 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Dreiröhrenbrunnen Arlesheim Ermitage
Paebi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eremitage Arlesheim
Margareth · Public domain
Ermitage Arlesheim unterer Weiher
Paebi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial

Switzerland

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,564Species

Stöcklewald

Germany · 82 km

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

See the guide

Forest of Chailluz

France · 120 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,397Species

See the guide

University of Basel Botanical Garden

Switzerland · 8 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 459Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1349970) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species180,267 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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