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Forstenrieder Park

Gras-Ober · CC BY-SA 3.0

92% trees around it and 1,176 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded1,176
  • Altitude601 m

The forest around

92% 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 88%Grassland 9%Built-up 4%Trees 93%Grassland 3%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 73%Grassland 7%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 10%Trees 66%Grassland 10%Water 1%Cropland 10%Built-up 13%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km88%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km73%
  • 6–10 km66%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up2%

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

1,176 species recorded.

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

Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella431 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica412 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica366 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies366 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Quaking-grass sedge
Quaking-grass sedgeCarex brizoides342 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aposeris foetida
Aposeris foetidaAposeris foetida331 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pale sedge
Pale sedgeCarex pallescens300 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria278 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara270 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Glaucous sedge
Glaucous sedgeCarex flacca265 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 09:16, 13 July 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa255 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Calamagrostis epigejos
Calamagrostis epigejosCalamagrostis epigejos245 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 92%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,176Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 601 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°-5°76 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°59 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°69 mm
  4. Apr14°3°68 mm
  5. May18°8°123 mm
  6. Jun22°12°137 mm
  7. Jul23°14°134 mm
  8. Aug23°13°139 mm
  9. Sep18°9°92 mm
  10. Oct14°5°77 mm
  11. Nov8°0°62 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forstenrieder Park.

Unincorporated area in Germany

Forstenrieder Park is a forest in Germany, 601 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,176 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 47 fungi, 114 birds and 15 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wood-sorrel, European Beech and European woodland sedge.

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

Preysinggeräumt2
Gras-Ober · 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.

Forstenrieder 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, Traumpfad München-Venedig, Walderlebnispfad Grünwald and 4 more
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 kmVerfassungslinde, Rudolf Sperr-Eiche, Brüdereichen and 13 more
  • 22picnic sites within 4 km
  • 152shelters and huts within 6 kmRaucherinsel and 151 more
  • 19viewpoints within 5 kmIsartalblick, Zugspitzblick, Aussichtspunkt Isar Kraftwerk Höllriegelskreuth and 16 more
  • 56car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Thalkirchen
  • 201places to stay within 10 kmJugendherberge Burg Schwaneck, Hotel Würmtaler, Hotel Ambassador and 198 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Forstenrieder 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.

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Parsberg569 m · 14 kmAschberg15 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 19 kmJohannishügel Tutzing21 kmHirsch Bühl641 m · 22 kmIlkahöhe726 m · 23 kmFröttmaninger Berg75 m · 23 kmBerndorfer Buchet760 m · 23 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Bavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 14 kmUniversitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 15 kmESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 28 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hi-Sky14 kmBismarck Tower15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Starnberger See16 kmLake Starnberg153 species · 20 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Maisinger Schlucht12 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München14 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.

20220227 Forstenrieder Park 01
Flocci Nivis · CC BY 4.0
20220227 Forstenrieder Park 02
Flocci Nivis · CC BY 4.0
A95 Forstenrieder Park GO-3
Gras-Ober · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Forstenrieder Park

Germany

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,176Species

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 6 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,141Species

See the guide

Perlacher Forst

Germany · 9 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Pupplinger Au

Germany · 13 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 1,047Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1438266) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species52,080 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, Canyonyas, Cascadyas

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.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
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
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here