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Klues Forest

www.fleno.de · CC BY-SA 3.0

36% trees around it and 859 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km36%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded859
  • Altitude62 m

The forest around

36% 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 67%Grassland 14%Water 7%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 4%Trees 32%Grassland 20%Wetland 0%Water 21%Cropland 16%Built-up 11%Trees 37%Grassland 18%Water 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 17%Built-up 17%Trees 31%Grassland 22%Water 7%Cropland 34%Built-up 6%36%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km67%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km37%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water21%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland16%
  • Built-up11%

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

859 species recorded.

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

Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus108 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica81 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata79 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus68 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea64 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis61 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium56 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Broadleaf cattail
Broadleaf cattailTypha latifolia53 recordsAndrawaag · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur51 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Common Sorrel
Common SorrelRumex acetosa50 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra47 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre47 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 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.

50out of 100

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

  • 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 859Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 62 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

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

  1. Jan3°0°74 mm
  2. Feb3°-1°58 mm
  3. Mar6°0°52 mm
  4. Apr11°3°40 mm
  5. May16°8°54 mm
  6. Jun19°11°73 mm
  7. Jul21°14°79 mm
  8. Aug21°14°90 mm
  9. Sep17°11°71 mm
  10. Oct13°8°80 mm
  11. Nov8°4°73 mm
  12. Dec4°1°76 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Klues Forest.

Forest

Klues Forest is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

859 species have been recorded around it: 616 plants, 44 fungi, 169 birds and 30 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Soft Rush, European Beech and Garlic Mustard.

The best time to walk is in June.

Freizeitlichtung Erholungswald Wassersleben Harrislee - panoramio
www.fleno.de · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Klues Forest 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

  • 32marked trails within 5 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E6, Deutschland, Schleswig-Holstein, European Long distance path E1 - part Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Frøslev Plantage - gul rute and 29 more
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmNeuromanische Eingangssäulen and 3 more
  • 89picnic sites within 4 km
  • 33shelters and huts within 6 kmPilgerhütte and 32 more
  • 26viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTouristinformation, Frøslev Grænse Turistbureau
  • 165car parks within 3 km
  • 23campsites within 10 kmKruså Camping og Hytter, Frigård Camping, DCU-Camping Kollund and 20 more
  • 65places to stay within 10 kmHotel des Nordens, Hotel am Nordkreuz, Seewarte and 62 more
  • 28restaurants 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 Klues Forest.

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.

Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Blasberg3.9 kmStagehøj4.9 kmKegelberg8.9 kmLundtop13 kmLøgpold18 kmNordhöhe19 kmAvnbjerg21 kmScheersberg70 m · 21 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Søgård Sø0.5 km² · 12 kmSankelmark lake0.4 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Menke-PlanetariumBortle 4 · 7.7 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
NSG Fröslev-Jardelunder Moor10 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Spiegelgrotte4.8 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.

Freizeitlichtung Erholungswald Grillrost Detail
Marseille77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Freizeitlichtung Erholungswald Wassersleben
Marseille77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
KlueserWald009
Moonwalker74 at de.wikipedia · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Klues Forest

Germany

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 859Species

Kollund Forest

Denmark · 2 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 860Species

See the guide

Buchholz

Germany · 109 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 226Species

See the guide

Silkeborg Forests

Denmark · 146 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,445Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q323694) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species17,250 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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