Germany protected forest
Hirschgarten
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39% trees around it and 1,454 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km39%
- wild within 10 km53%
- species recorded1,454
- Altitude527 m
The forest around
39% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km33%
- 1–3 km40%
- 3–6 km38%
- 6–10 km47%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees40%
- Grassland6%
- Water0%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up54%
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
1,454 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 53%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,454Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 527 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.
- Jan-5°76 mm
- Feb-4°59 mm
- Mar-1°69 mm
- Apr3°68 mm
- May8°123 mm
- Jun12°137 mm
- Jul14°134 mm
- Aug13°139 mm
- Sep9°92 mm
- Oct5°77 mm
- Nov0°62 mm
- Dec-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
Hirschgarten.
Cultural heritage monument in Bavaria, Germany
Hirschgarten is a protected forest in Germany, 527 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 53% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,454 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 259 fungi, 176 birds and 19 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Herb bennet and Bishop's goutweed.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- The Tentcampsite · 2.4 km · 9 within 10 km
- Carmenplace to stay · 3.6 km · 498 within 10 km
- Pasingnearest town · 4.3 km in a straight line
- Munich Airport (MUC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 11marked trails within 5 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, KulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Erster Spaziergang, KulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Dritter Spaziergang and 8 more
- 21named and notable trees within 6 kmRöth-Linde, Die Bäckerlinde, Prof. Fromherz-Emeritus-Baum and 18 more
- 162picnic sites within 4 km
- 1,064shelters and huts within 6 kmParapluie, Wetterpilz and 1,062 more
- 24viewpoints within 5 kmBavaria, Turm des Rathauses and 22 more
- 5visitor centres within 6 kmInfocenter U5 Bau, Infozentrum am Rathaus München, Zweite Stammstrecke München and 2 more
- 840car parks within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmThe Tent, Wohnwagenstellplatz am Neubruch, Campingplatz Obermenzing and 6 more
- 498places to stay within 10 kmCarmen, k+k Hotel, Hotel Ambassador and 495 more
- 482restaurants 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 Hirschgarten.
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.
Peakyas29 mountains within 25 kmPerlacher Mugl10 kmFröttmaninger Berg75 m · 12 kmParsberg569 m · 14 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 16 kmMünchener Berg18 kmNeufarner Berg552 m · 23 kmSchloß-Berg24 kmAschberg24 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 kmKarlsfelder See0.2 km² · 10 kmOberschleißheim Regatta Course0.4 km² · 11 kmFeringasee0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 kmUniversitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 7.0 kmBavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 7.6 kmESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 17 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonChinese Tower5.9 km↗Hi-Sky7.5 km↗Damit alles fließt493 m · 12 kmAussicht Schlossplatz Dachau504 m · 14 kmGronsdorf Observation Tower15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 kmIsmaninger Speichersee und Fischteiche19 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmWasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München5.5 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.
Other forests nearby.
Hirschgarten
Germany
- 54Forestyas Score
- 39%Trees
- 53%Wild
- 1,454Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q261850) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 147,625 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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