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Chrobry Oak

Dila · CC BY-SA 3.0

82% of the land around it is trees.

  • trees within 3 km82%
  • wild within 10 km86%
  • Altitude160 m

The forest around

82% 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 89%Grassland 8%Water 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 81%Grassland 14%Cropland 4%Built-up 0%Trees 69%Grassland 22%Wetland 2%Water 1%Cropland 5%Built-up 1%Trees 60%Grassland 18%Wetland 2%Water 2%Cropland 17%Built-up 1%82%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km81%
  • 3–6 km69%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees81%
  • Grassland14%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland4%
  • 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.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 86%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 160 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. Jan1°-4°53 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°38 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°46 mm
  4. Apr15°4°34 mm
  5. May20°9°59 mm
  6. Jun23°13°66 mm
  7. Jul25°15°87 mm
  8. Aug25°15°72 mm
  9. Sep20°10°55 mm
  10. Oct14°5°50 mm
  11. Nov8°1°46 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°45 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chrobry Oak.

Oak tree which is the largest in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe

Chrobry Oak is a notable tree in Poland.

Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 86% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

Dąb Chrobry 2
Dila · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Chrobry Oak 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmSzlak Borowika, Ścieżka historyczno-przyrodnicza, Ścieżka "Lasy okolic Przemkowa"
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Chrobry, Dąb papieski
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 kmZabytkowa wiata odpoczynkowa z XIX w. and 5 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmZajazd "Kobanhof", Hotel Chrobry, Pałac Wiechlice
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Chrobry Oak.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Wzgórze Fryderyki17 kmBonowskie Wzgorza18 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.

Dab-Chrobry-2007
Skarabeusz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dąb Chrobry po pożarze z 2014r
Xasia1119 · CC BY 3.0
Pomnik przyrody , Dąb Chrobry w Piotrowicach (rodzic).Z żołędzi tego drzewa wyhodowano dęby papieskie. - panoramio
rem49 · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Chrobry Oak

Poland

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • —Species

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland · 44 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 119Species

See the guide

Muskau Park

Poland · 68 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 473Species

See the guide

Muskau Heath

Germany · 69 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 84Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1087503) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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