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Lousberg

Euku : ⇄ · CC BY-SA 3.0

36% trees around it and 960 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ProtectedBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km36%
  • wild within 10 km64%
  • species recorded960
  • Altitude272 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 44%Grassland 16%Cropland 1%Built-up 39%Trees 35%Grassland 16%Cropland 3%Built-up 45%Trees 42%Grassland 19%Cropland 18%Built-up 21%Trees 38%Grassland 29%Cropland 18%Built-up 15%36%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km35%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees35%
  • Grassland16%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up45%

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

960 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata238 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus177 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea173 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana119 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus109 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium108 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica105 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria104 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum104 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red catchfly
Red catchflySilene dioica102 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leatherleaf Viburnum
Leatherleaf ViburnumViburnum rhytidophyllum97 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas83 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

55out 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
  • 64%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 960Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 272 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.

  1. Jan5°-1°66 mm
  2. Feb6°-1°59 mm
  3. Mar10°1°56 mm
  4. Apr15°4°42 mm
  5. May19°8°61 mm
  6. Jun22°12°65 mm
  7. Jul24°14°73 mm
  8. Aug24°14°78 mm
  9. Sep20°10°52 mm
  10. Oct15°7°58 mm
  11. Nov10°3°65 mm
  12. Dec5°0°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lousberg.

Hill in Aachen, Germany

Lousberg is a protected forest in Germany, 272 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 64% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

960 species have been recorded around it: 788 plants, 11 fungi, 141 birds and 20 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Greater Celandine and Ground-ivy.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Aachen, Lousberg
Euku : ⇄ · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near LousbergGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near LousbergBooking.comSee prices Car hire at LGG airport (Grâce-Hollogne)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Lousberg 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

  • 334marked trails within 5 kmJakobs-Pilgerweg Köln - Aachen, Via Mosana, Jakobs-Pilgerweg Dortmund - Aachen and 331 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmForster Linde, Naturdenkmal, P8;P9 and 17 more
  • 97picnic sites within 4 kmPlateau Laurensberg and 96 more
  • 144shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzhütte Siebenwege and 143 more
  • 39viewpoints within 5 kmBrander Wall, Kalkhaldenblick, Aussichtsterrasse Berensberg and 36 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmASEAG Kunden-Center, Dominformation, Tourist Info Elisenbrunnen and 4 more
  • 892car parks within 3 km
  • 19campsites within 10 kmStellplatz Bad Aachen, Camping Hoeve De Gastmolen, Natur- und Sportfreunde e.V. Aachen and 16 more
  • 127places to stay within 10 kmHotel Lousberg, City Apartments Regence, Hotel Soers and 124 more
  • 354restaurants 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 Lousberg.

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.

Peakyas117 mountains within 25 km
Lousberg264 m · this placeSalvatorberg229 m · 0.5 kmSchneeberg256 m · 4.3 kmVaalserberg322 m · 5.4 kmKlausberg354 m · 6.1 kmElleterberg319 m · 6.2 kmCauberg137 m · 20 kmSteling658 m · 25 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 km
Bei den zwölf Aposteln0.6 kmBismarck Tower (Aachen)4.9 kmVaalserberg322 m · 5.4 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Osthertogenwald around Raeren113 species · 16 kmAffluents du lac d'Eupen131 species · 20 kmFagnes du Nord-Est134 species · 22 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.

Lousberg
Peter Tritthart · CC BY 3.0
Aachen Lousberg Obelisk bearb
Aachen_Lousberg_Obelisk.jpg : MBO163 derivative work: Alupus ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pavillon Lousberg
LoKiLeCh · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Lousberg

Germany

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 960Species

Hertogenwald

Belgium · 26 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 593Species

See the guide

Aachener Stadtforst

Germany · 6 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,024Species

See the guide

Hürtgen Forest

Germany · 18 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 312Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q153664) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species28,911 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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