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Düben Heath

Doris Antony , Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0

94% trees around it and 159 species recorded.

73Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km79%
  • species recorded159
  • Altitude161 m

The forest around

94% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 93%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 70%Grassland 10%Cropland 18%Built-up 2%Trees 63%Grassland 13%Water 0%Cropland 22%Built-up 2%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km70%
  • 6–10 km63%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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.

Who lives here

159 species recorded.

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

Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia15 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica13 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Pill sedge
Pill sedgeCarex pilulifera6 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 11:03, 8 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Skullcap
SkullcapScutellaria galericulata5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Eurasian Aspen
Eurasian AspenPopulus tremula5 recordsØyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broad-leaved Willowherb
Broad-leaved WillowherbEpilobium montanum5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Trailing tormentil
Trailing tormentilPotentilla anglica5 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm) · Public domain
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora4 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Hairy sedge
Hairy sedgeCarex hirta3 recordsDaderot · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 79%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 159Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 161 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°53 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°36 mm
  3. Mar9°0°42 mm
  4. Apr15°4°31 mm
  5. May19°8°57 mm
  6. Jun23°12°56 mm
  7. Jul26°15°78 mm
  8. Aug25°14°64 mm
  9. Sep20°10°54 mm
  10. Oct14°5°46 mm
  11. Nov8°1°52 mm
  12. Dec4°-2°50 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Düben Heath.

Landscape in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Düben Heath is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 79% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

159 species have been recorded around it: 73 plants, 23 fungi, 59 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Woodland germander, European Beech and Periwinkle.

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

Bad Schmiedeberg Blaues Auge
Doris Antony , Berlin · 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.

Düben Heath 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 kmLutherweg Sachsen-Anhalt, Försterweg, Rundweg Söllichau and 9 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmKaisereiche, Linde - Naturdenkmal
  • 25picnic sites within 4 kmHammerbachhütte, Am Jagdhausteich, Grenzweg-Hütte and 22 more
  • 35shelters and huts within 6 kmReinholdhäuschen, Hammerbachhütte, Hopfengartenhäuschen and 32 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmBiber-Beobachtungsturm
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmKiEZ Friedrichsee, Wohnmobilstellplätze NaturSportBad Bad Düben, Zeltplatz Königsee and 2 more
  • 40places to stay within 10 kmHaus Fledermaus, Heidecamp Koose, Pension Unter den Linden and 37 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Düben Heath.

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.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Wurzel-Berg2.6 kmGalgen-Berg123 m · 12 kmHunde-Berg12 kmBunkerberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg75 m · 20 kmSüptitzer Höhe130 m · 22 kmKreuzberg Schönwölkau106 m · 22 kmZwergsberge22 kmWitrow-Berg25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Bergwitzsee1.7 km² · 13 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tower3.3 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Dübener Heide14 kmMündungsgebiet der Schwarzen Elster20 kmKämmereiforst und Leineaue22 kmVereinigte Mulde22 kmGoitzsche und Paupitzscher See23 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.

Siebenarmsaule Dubener Heide
No machine-readable author provided. Alma assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
A stream in Dübener Heide 01
Андрей Романенко · CC BY-SA 4.0
A stream in Dübener Heide 02
Андрей Романенко · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Düben Heath

Germany

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 159Species

Dahlener Heide

Germany · 38 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 142Species

See the guide

Wörlitzer Park

Germany · 24 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 70%Wild
  • 641Species

See the guide

Grunewald

Germany · 97 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 1,574Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q896078) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,342 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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