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Ettersburg Castle and Park

Tsungam · CC BY-SA 4.0

45% trees around it and 329 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ProtectedWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km45%
  • wild within 10 km27%
  • species recorded329
  • Altitude336 m

The forest around

45% 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 62%Grassland 13%Bare ground 0%Cropland 23%Built-up 3%Trees 42%Grassland 10%Cropland 45%Built-up 3%Trees 17%Grassland 13%Water 0%Cropland 63%Built-up 6%Trees 13%Grassland 9%Water 0%Cropland 72%Built-up 6%45%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km62%
  • 1–3 km42%
  • 3–6 km17%
  • 6–10 km13%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees42%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland45%
  • 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

329 species recorded.

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

Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus31 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Meadow clary
Meadow clarySalvia pratensis21 recordsDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum20 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica13 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field eryngo
Field eryngoEryngium campestre12 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 2.5
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea12 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas11 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata11 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias10 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Large yellow loosestrife
Large yellow loosestrifeLysimachia punctata10 recordssarefo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea9 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis9 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 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.

55out of 100

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

  • 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 27%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 329Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 336 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°51 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°37 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°44 mm
  4. Apr14°3°35 mm
  5. May18°8°68 mm
  6. Jun22°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°77 mm
  8. Aug24°13°61 mm
  9. Sep20°9°56 mm
  10. Oct14°4°48 mm
  11. Nov7°1°54 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ettersburg Castle and Park.

Castle and surrounding park near Weimar, Germany

Ettersburg Castle and Park is a protected forest in Germany, 336 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 27% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

329 species have been recorded around it: 199 plants, 7 fungi, 119 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Spring vetchling, Meadow clary and Ramsons.

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

Weimar - 2016-09-22 - Schloss Ettersburg (019)
Tsungam · 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.

Ettersburg Castle and Park 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmJakobsweg Via Regia 5, Lutherweg Thüringen - Ostroute, Geologischer Wanderweg - Westlicher Ettersberg and 2 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmFriedenseiche, Ginkgo Bilbao and 5 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 kmHerders Ruh, Tonis Bank, Drei-Linden-Platz and 7 more
  • 60shelters and huts within 6 kmBorkenhäuschen and 59 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmBesucherinformation, DB Information, Weimar Card / Weimar Information and 1 more
  • 18car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Ettersburg, Hermann-Brill-Platz, Camping Tiefurt and 2 more
  • 87places to stay within 10 kmPension Schütze, Zur Tanne, Landhotel Ollendorf and 84 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Ettersburg Castle and Park.

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.

Peakyas156 mountains within 25 km
Großer Ettersberg482 m · 2.3 kmKaitsch497 m · 17 kmReisberg470 m · 18 kmHolzberg468 m · 19 kmBombenberg465 m · 19 kmRiechheimer Berg513 m · 20 kmWachenberg (Obersynderstedt)465 m · 21 kmKesselberg (Keßlar)463 m · 23 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Talsperre Großbrembach0.5 km² · 8.8 kmTalsperre Frohndorf0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jena ObservatoryBortle 6 · 25 kmSternwarte KirchheimBortle 4 · 26 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hainturm12 kmPaulinenturm15 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Ackerhügelland nördlich Weimar mit Ettersberg141 species · 5.7 kmIlmtal zwischen Bad Berka und Weimar mit Buchfarter Wald14 kmMuschelkalkgebiet südöstlich Erfurt17 kmGera-Unstrut-Niederung um Straußfurt22 kmMuschelkalkhänge der westlichen Saaleplatte22 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Vergilgrotte Tiefurt7.7 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.

Neues Schloss Ettersburg und Schloßkirche, oberhalb des Landschaftsparks "Pücklerschlag", Weimarer Land
MichaelWE · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Schloss Ettersburg
Michael Sander · CC BY-SA 3.0
Altes Schloss
Wikswat · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Ettersburg Castle and Park

Germany

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 27%Wild
  • 329Species

Park an der Ilm

Germany · 8 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 38%Trees
  • 41%Wild
  • 647Species

See the guide

Schloss Belvedere

Germany · 11 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 559Species

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 113 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 956Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1725605) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,704 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, Cavernyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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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