Germany forest
Kottenforst
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82% trees around it and 717 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km82%
- wild within 10 km67%
- species recorded717
- Altitude193 m
The forest around
82% 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 km98%
- 1–3 km80%
- 3–6 km54%
- 6–10 km42%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees80%
- Grassland11%
- Water0%
- Cropland4%
- Built-up5%
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
717 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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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).
- 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 67%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 717Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 193 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-2°63 mm
- Feb-2°55 mm
- Mar0°56 mm
- Apr3°47 mm
- May7°72 mm
- Jun11°75 mm
- Jul13°77 mm
- Aug12°80 mm
- Sep8°58 mm
- Oct5°59 mm
- Nov2°63 mm
- Dec-1°67 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Kottenforst.
Forest in the southwest of Bonn, Germany
Kottenforst is a forest in Germany.
Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 67% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
717 species have been recorded around it: 423 plants, 106 fungi, 151 birds and 37 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Norway Spruce, Small yellow balsam and European Beech.
The best time to walk is in September.
Get there and walk
- Rheinauecampsite · 6.7 km · 9 within 10 km
- Gasthof Henselerplace to stay · 2.7 km · 134 within 10 km
- Röttgennearest town · 2.1 km in a straight line
- Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 23 km in a straight lineCar hire at CGN airport (Köln)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
- 28marked trails within 5 kmRundweg Kottenforst (Heiderhof - Pech), Kaolinweg, Osteifelweg and 25 more
- 29named and notable trees within 6 kmSchnacke Eiche, Zweibeinige Eiche, Dicke Eiche and 26 more
- 14picnic sites within 4 kmGrillplatz and 13 more
- 158shelters and huts within 6 km
- 12viewpoints within 5 kmSternwarte and 11 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmSWB-ServiceCenter Bad Godesberg, Stadtmarketing Bad Godesberg, go.Center
- 181car parks within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmRheinaue, Wohnmobilstellplatz Sportplatz Königswinter, Campingplatz Genienau and 6 more
- 134places to stay within 10 kmGasthof Henseler, Hotel Görres, Hotel zum Adler and 131 more
- 6restaurants 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 Kottenforst.
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.
Peakyas247 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 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.
Kottenforst
Germany
- 73Forestyas Score
- 82%Trees
- 67%Wild
- 717Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1785474) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 39,886 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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