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Frejlev Skov

Erik Damskier · Public domain

26% trees around it and 979 species recorded.

43Forestyas Score

ForestFungiWildlife

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km56%
  • species recorded979

The forest around

26% 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 45%Grassland 12%Wetland 1%Water 28%Cropland 13%Trees 23%Grassland 10%Wetland 3%Water 42%Cropland 21%Built-up 0%Trees 7%Grassland 11%Wetland 1%Water 25%Cropland 55%Built-up 1%Trees 14%Grassland 15%Wetland 1%Water 28%Cropland 38%Built-up 4%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km45%
  • 1–3 km23%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km14%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees23%
  • Grassland10%
  • Wetland3%
  • Water42%
  • Cropland21%
  • 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

979 species recorded.

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

Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra662 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica544 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spreading Bent
Spreading BentAgrostis stolonifera460 recordsAlfred · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tall fescue
Tall fescueLolium arundinaceum436 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quackgrass
QuackgrassElymus repens430 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium410 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Silverweed
SilverweedArgentina anserina385 recordsKyle Nessen · CC0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur348 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping cinquefoilPotentilla reptans335 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense327 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus325 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus319 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

43out of 100

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

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 56%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 979Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan3°0°60 mm
  2. Feb3°0°46 mm
  3. Mar5°2°42 mm
  4. Apr9°5°34 mm
  5. May14°10°46 mm
  6. Jun18°14°60 mm
  7. Jul20°16°72 mm
  8. Aug20°16°75 mm
  9. Sep17°14°56 mm
  10. Oct12°10°62 mm
  11. Nov8°6°58 mm
  12. Dec4°2°62 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Frejlev Skov.

Frejlev Skov is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 56% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

979 species have been recorded around it: 757 plants, 80 fungi, 112 birds and 30 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Red fescue, European Beech and Spreading Bent.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Frejlev Skov SB 145 02
Erik Damskier · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Bruserup Strand Naturlejrpladscampsite · 4.2 km · 16 within 10 km
  • Frederiksensminde Bed & Breakfastplace to stay · 5.3 km · 26 within 10 km
  • Væggerløsenearest town · 6.6 km in a straight line
  • Rostock-Laage Airport (RLG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 91 km in a straight lineCar hire at CPH airport (Copenhagen)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Frejlev Skov 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 kmSjællandsleden 2012, Paradisruten, Den Danske Klosterrute and 4 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmKatedralen
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmBruserup Naturteltplads, Gråsaelen and 5 more
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 16campsites within 10 kmBruserup Strand Naturlejrplads, Hasselø Natursti, Holten Strand and 13 more
  • 26places to stay within 10 kmFrederiksensminde Bed & Breakfast, Hasselø Bed & Breakfast, Hotel Nysted Havn and 23 more
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants 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 Frejlev Skov.

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
Pregehøj7.9 kmBavnehøj25 km
Islandyasthe island
Falster514 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
LollandBortle 3 · 27 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.

FrejlevStationSporside
Beethoven9 · CC BY-SA 3.0
FrejlevStationVarehus
Beethoven9 · CC BY-SA 3.0
461DK Frejlev Skov (15355834378)
Rüdiger Stehn from Kiel, Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Frejlev Skov

Denmark

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 979Species

Darß Forest

Germany · 53 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

See the guide

Rostock Heath

Germany · 60 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,357Species

See the guide

Corselitze Forest

Denmark · 26 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 763Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12312881) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species33,756 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas

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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