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Hartelholz

Gras-Ober · CC BY-SA 3.0

40% trees around it and 1,176 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km48%
  • species recorded1,176
  • Altitude505 m

The forest around

40% 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 49%Grassland 32%Cropland 12%Built-up 7%Trees 38%Grassland 33%Cropland 6%Built-up 23%Trees 36%Grassland 13%Water 2%Cropland 20%Built-up 30%Trees 32%Grassland 10%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 29%Built-up 27%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km49%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km32%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Grassland33%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up23%

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.

Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea289 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata248 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild Privet
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare243 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior238 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna233 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum231 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
False Oat-grass
False Oat-grassArrhenatherum elatius228 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping cinquefoilPotentilla reptans226 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
European dewberry
European dewberryRubus caesius223 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata222 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense217 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra213 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 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.

48out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 48%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,176Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 505 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°78 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°61 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°72 mm
  4. Apr14°3°69 mm
  5. May18°8°124 mm
  6. Jun22°12°143 mm
  7. Jul23°13°138 mm
  8. Aug23°13°143 mm
  9. Sep18°9°95 mm
  10. Oct14°4°80 mm
  11. Nov7°0°62 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hartelholz.

Forest in Munich, Germany

Hartelholz is a forest in Germany, 505 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 48% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,176 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 25 fungi, 145 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dogwood, Garlic Mustard and Wild Privet.

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

Hartelholz GO-3
Gras-Ober · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Wohnmobilstellplatz Allianz Arenacampsite · 3.7 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Hotel Olympia "Olympia - Schiessanlage"place to stay · 2.2 km · 437 within 10 km
  • Oberschleißheimnearest town · 3.0 km in a straight line
  • Munich Airport (MUC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 21 km in a straight lineCar hire at MUC airport (Munich)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.

Hartelholz 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

  • 15marked trails within 5 kmMVV Wanderweg Dreieck Schleißheim, MVV Wanderweg Raute Oberschleißheim, MVV Wanderweg Kreis Oberschleißheim and 12 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmApfelbaum, Lindentorso, Biene-Maja-Linde and 4 more
  • 34picnic sites within 4 km
  • 394shelters and huts within 6 kmWetterpilz, Ladestation für Seele- Körper und Geist and 392 more
  • 15viewpoints within 5 kmHeideblick, Flakhügel and 13 more
  • 496car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Allianz Arena, Campingplatz Nord-West, Wohnwagenstellplatz am Neubruch and 4 more
  • 437places to stay within 10 kmHotel Olympia "Olympia - Schiessanlage", elaya hotel munich schwabing, B&B-Hotel München Nord and 434 more
  • 47restaurants 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 Hartelholz.

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.

Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Fröttmaninger Berg75 m · 4.3 kmPerlacher Mugl17 kmNeufarner Berg552 m · 20 kmParsberg569 m · 21 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 22 kmWittelsbacher Höhe539 m · 22 kmDomberg23 kmMünchener Berg23 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Oberschleißheim Regatta Course0.4 km² · 4.8 kmFeringasee0.3 km² · 7.8 kmKarlsfelder See0.2 km² · 8.0 kmIsmaninger Speichersee5.8 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 8.2 kmUniversitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 9.1 kmBavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 12 km
Viewyas6 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Damit alles fließt493 m · 5.4 kmChinese Tower8.0 kmAussicht Schlossplatz Dachau504 m · 11 kmHi-Sky11 kmBei den drei Linden501 m · 12 kmGronsdorf Observation Tower15 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Ismaninger Speichersee und Fischteiche13 kmFreisinger Moos18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München8.8 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.

Túnel natural, Hartelholz, Múnich, Alemania, 2016-04-03, DD 06
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Abeja (Apis mellifera), Hartelholz, Múnich, Alemania, 2020-06-27, DD 104-111 FS
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
20220306 Hartelholz Wald
Flocci Nivis · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Hartelholz

Germany

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 1,176Species

Forstenrieder Park

Germany · 21 km

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

See the guide

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 23 km

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

See the guide

Perlacher Forst

Germany · 17 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q23786257) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species58,052 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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