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Louisenlund

Jonathan Stein · CC0

20% trees around it and 1,022 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km20%
  • wild within 10 km72%
  • species recorded1,022
  • Altitude73 m

The forest around

20% 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 25%Grassland 9%Cropland 65%Built-up 1%Trees 19%Grassland 10%Water 10%Cropland 60%Built-up 1%Trees 24%Grassland 10%Water 33%Cropland 32%Built-up 1%Trees 21%Grassland 8%Water 49%Cropland 21%Built-up 1%20%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km25%
  • 1–3 km19%
  • 3–6 km24%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees19%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water10%
  • Cropland60%
  • Built-up1%

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

1,022 species recorded.

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

Wavy hair-grass
Wavy hair-grassAvenella flexuosa668 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris524 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra478 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea462 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur421 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Silver Birch
Silver BirchBetula pendula385 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus373 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common bent
Common bentAgrostis capillaris361 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dragon's teeth
Dragon's teethLotus maritimus359 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris325 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria324 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior319 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

47out of 100

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

  • 20%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 72%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,022Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 73 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan3°2°69 mm
  2. Feb3°1°52 mm
  3. Mar4°2°48 mm
  4. Apr7°5°35 mm
  5. May11°9°45 mm
  6. Jun16°14°54 mm
  7. Jul19°17°76 mm
  8. Aug19°18°77 mm
  9. Sep16°15°63 mm
  10. Oct12°10°75 mm
  11. Nov8°7°72 mm
  12. Dec5°4°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Louisenlund.

Small forest with ~50 menhirs in it

Louisenlund is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 20% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 72% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,022 species have been recorded around it: 801 plants, 46 fungi, 151 birds and 24 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wavy hair-grass, Heather and Red fescue.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Louisenlund
Jonathan Stein · CC0

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.

Louisenlund 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmBlå rute, Sporet ved Vasagård, Aaker Plantage - Povlsker Plantage and 4 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmBrændte Ole, Herolds Eg
  • 11picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8shelters and huts within 6 kmBaunet, Pedersker Jagthus and 6 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 18campsites within 10 kmListed Havn, Thygegaard naturcamping, Hullehavn Camping and 15 more
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmAparthotel Bølshavn 9, Rosenvænge Ferielejligheder, Hotel Siemsens Gaard and 17 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Louisenlund.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Slamrebjerg7.4 kmBokul10 kmRytterknægten162 m · 12 kmStjernehøj17 kmEgeshøj21 kmLangebjerg76 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Bornholm588 km²
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Hullehavn5.4 kmSvenskehavn7.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
BornholmBortle 2 · 9.7 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Cristiansø Feltstation233 species · 22 kmErtholmene233 species · 22 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Stavehøl3 m · 7.7 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.

38LouisenlundH1a
HelgeRieder · CC0
38LouisenlundH2a
HelgeRieder · CC0
Menhiry w Louisenlund - panoramio
7alaskan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Louisenlund

Denmark

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 1,022Species

Almindingen

Denmark · 9 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 1,105Species

See the guide

Paradisbakkerne

Denmark · 4 km

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 67%Wild
  • 1,111Species

See the guide

Darß Forest

Germany · 181 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1649118) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species43,706 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Darkskyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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