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Gardens of the World

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44% trees around it and 1,125 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km44%
  • wild within 10 km53%
  • species recorded1,125
  • Altitude54 m

The forest around

44% 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 18%Built-up 37%Trees 44%Grassland 10%Bare ground 0%Cropland 7%Built-up 39%Trees 41%Grassland 12%Water 1%Cropland 16%Built-up 30%Trees 40%Grassland 11%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 21%44%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km45%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km40%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland7%
  • Built-up39%

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

1,125 species recorded.

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

Norway maple
Norway mapleAcer platanoides35,489 recordsMartin Bobka (= Martin120 ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior14,731 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Small-leaved Lime
Small-leaved LimeTilia cordata12,732 recordsImreKiss · CC BY 3.0
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia10,900 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus10,870 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Western boxelder
Western boxelderAcer negundo10,869 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur10,681 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Silver Birch
Silver BirchBetula pendula8,596 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre8,305 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum5,945 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
London Plane
London PlanePlatanus × hispanica5,780 recordsArbres d'ornement-2 - ornamental trees in colour - Public domain book illustration (visual · CC0
Large-leaved Lime
Large-leaved LimeTilia platyphyllos4,977 recordsChmee2 · 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.

55out of 100

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

  • 44%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,125Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 54 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°38 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°41 mm
  4. Apr14°4°29 mm
  5. May20°9°53 mm
  6. Jun24°13°57 mm
  7. Jul26°15°81 mm
  8. Aug26°14°58 mm
  9. Sep21°10°48 mm
  10. Oct14°5°48 mm
  11. Nov7°2°50 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gardens of the World.

Park in Berlin, Germany

Gardens of the World is a protected forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 44% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,125 species have been recorded around it: 805 plants, 80 fungi, 203 birds and 37 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Norway maple, Ash and Small-leaved Lime.

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

Gaerten der welt fernblick auf renaissance
RKG1H · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • City BaseCamp Berlincampsite · 3.3 km · 1 within 10 km
  • hotelhellemitteplace to stay · 1.8 km · 212 within 10 km
  • Marzahnnearest town · 0.8 km in a straight line
  • Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at BER airport (Berlin)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at BER airport (Berlin)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Gardens of the World 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

  • 19marked trails within 5 kmWuhletalweg, Barnimer Dörferweg, Humboldt-Spur and 16 more
  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmEiche, Treskow-Platane, Heinrich Dathe-Buche and 7 more
  • 51picnic sites within 4 km
  • 169shelters and huts within 6 kmSchrainer House and 168 more
  • 28viewpoints within 5 kmKleiner Ahrensfelder Berg, Großer Ahrensfelder Berg, Gärten der Welt and 25 more
  • 6visitor centres within 6 kmBesucherzentrum, Von Gletschereis und Gummistiefeln, Info-Punkt / BücherStübchen and 3 more
  • 5,512car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCity BaseCamp Berlin
  • 212places to stay within 10 kmhotelhellemitte, Hotel Amadeus Royal, Pension Falkenberg and 209 more
  • 86restaurants 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 Gardens of the World.

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.

Peakyas80 mountains within 25 km
Ahrensfelder Berge114 m · 1.9 kmVolkspark Prenzlauer Berg91 m · 7.7 kmHumboldthöhe84 m · 13 kmMüggelberge115 m · 14 kmKreuzberg66 m · 14 kmKranichsberg104 m · 17 kmFliegeberg59 m · 22 kmDrachenberg99 m · 23 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Karpfenteich im Treptower Park0.2 km² · 8.3 kmHaussee (Seefeld-Löhme)0.3 km² · 12 kmMüggelsee7.0 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Archenhold ObservatoryBortle 9 · 9.0 kmZeiss Major PlanetariumBortle 9 · 10 kmBerlin ObservatoryBortle 9 · 13 kmPlanetarium am InsulanerBortle 9 · 18 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Wolkenhain0.6 kmdegewo-Skywalk1.5 kmSpreepark Ferris wheel8.4 kmMüggel-Tower14 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
SPA Müggelspree194 species · 17 kmTegeler Fließtal201 species · 19 kmSPA Grunewald199 species · 22 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall im Viktoriapark14 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.

Bank in Tulpenblumen, Erholungspark Marzahn
Pantona · CC BY-SA 4.0
Erholungspark Marzahn, am Haupteingang (15044657721)
Ingolf from Berlin , Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Erholungspark Marzahn
No machine-readable author provided. Hedavid assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Gardens of the World

Germany

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 53%Wild
  • 1,125Species

Grunewald

Germany · 24 km

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

See the guide

Spandauer Forst

Germany · 27 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,029Species

See the guide

Ruinenberg

Germany · 39 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,365Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q464302) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species319,082 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, Cascadyas

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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