Germany arboretum
King's House on Schachen
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48% trees around it and 615 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km48%
- wild within 10 km97%
- species recorded615
- Altitude1,864 m
The forest around
48% 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 km60%
- 1–3 km46%
- 3–6 km60%
- 6–10 km66%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees46%
- Grassland29%
- Moss and lichen0%
- Water0%
- Bare ground24%
- Snow and ice1%
- Cropland0%
- 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
615 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 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).
- 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 615Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 1,864 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from June to July and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-8°83 mm
- Feb-8°65 mm
- Mar-4°81 mm
- Apr0°84 mm
- May4°149 mm
- Jun9°175 mm
- Jul10°172 mm
- Aug10°185 mm
- Sep6°118 mm
- Oct2°91 mm
- Nov-2°70 mm
- Dec-7°74 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
King's House on Schachen.
Alpine chalet of Ludwig II of Bavaria, Germany
King's House on Schachen is an arboretum in Germany, 1,864 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
615 species have been recorded around it: 604 plants, 4 fungi, 6 birds and 1 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Hairy Alpenrose, Eightpetal mountain-avens and Carex sempervirens.
The best time to walk is from June to July and in September.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Austria Parks Camping Leutasch - Seefeldcampsite · 5.6 km · 6 within 10 km
- Schachenhausplace to stay · 0.1 km · 762 within 10 km
- Leutaschnearest town · 6.1 km in a straight line
- Innsbruck Airport (INN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at INN airport (Innsbruck)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
- 27marked trails within 5 kmAV Weg 801, AV Weg 816 (Gaistalalm - Feldernjöchel), AV Weg 834 (Schöngänge) and 24 more
- 1picnic sites within 4 km
- 44shelters and huts within 6 kmHöllentaleingangshütte, Oberreintalhütte, Schüsselkar-Biwak and 41 more
- 15viewpoints within 5 kmTunnelfenster, Belvedere, Schachentor and 12 more
- 2visitor centres within 6 kmInformationsbüro Leutasch, Zentrale Tourismusverband Region Seefeld
- 6campsites within 10 kmAustria Parks Camping Leutasch - Seefeld, Camping Resort Zugspitze, Camping Erlebnis Zugspitze and 3 more
- 762places to stay within 10 kmSchachenhaus, Wirtshaus Elmau, Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten and 759 more
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- named and notable trees within 6 km
- car parks 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 King's House on Schachen.
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.
Peakyas476 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas6 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures 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.
King's House on Schachen
Germany
- 77Forestyas Score
- 48%Trees
- 97%Wild
- 615Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q256160) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 9,806 open records within 2 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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