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Lower Silesian Wilderness

MoniaZR · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

94% trees around it and 119 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded119
  • Altitude177 m

The forest around

94% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 86%Grassland 12%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 87%Grassland 10%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km86%
  • 6–10 km87%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water0%
  • 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

119 species recorded.

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

Sand sedge
Sand sedgeCarex arenaria13 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Carex bohemica
Carex bohemicaCarex bohemica5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea4 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Trailing St John's-wort
Trailing St John's-wortHypericum humifusum4 recordsFornax · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Pondweed
Red PondweedPotamogeton alpinus4 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. · Public domain
Carex pseudobrizoides
Carex pseudobrizoidesCarex pseudobrizoides3 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
St John's wort
St John's wortHypericum perforatum3 recordsProf. Dr. Thomé, Otto Wilhelm · Public domain
Arctic violet
Arctic violetPulsatilla vernalis3 recordsDimiTalen · CC0
Bog Heather
Bog HeatherErica tetralix3 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jointed rush
Jointed rushJuncus articulatus2 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brown bent
Brown bentAgrostis canina2 recordsJames K. Lindsey · 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.

80out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 119Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 177 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. Jan1°-4°56 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°39 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°46 mm
  4. Apr15°4°34 mm
  5. May20°9°59 mm
  6. Jun24°13°66 mm
  7. Jul26°15°86 mm
  8. Aug25°15°72 mm
  9. Sep20°10°54 mm
  10. Oct14°5°51 mm
  11. Nov8°1°50 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lower Silesian Wilderness.

Largest forest of Poland

Lower Silesian Wilderness is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

119 species have been recorded around it: 28 plants, 33 fungi, 58 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sand sedge, Carex bohemica and Cowberry.

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

Bory Dolnoślaskie - Aleja Kasztanowa
MoniaZR · CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Lower Silesian WildernessGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Lower Silesian WildernessBooking.comSee prices Car hire at DRS airport (Dresden)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.

Lower Silesian Wilderness 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmWęgliniec pętla niebieska przyrodnicza
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmDie geheime Welt von Turisede - Turiuswinkel, Neiße-Camp, Behütum and 1 more
  • 12places to stay within 10 kmZajazd Siódemka, Sosnówka, Rustica and 9 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Lower Silesian Wilderness.

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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Wein-Berg18 kmWespenberg19 kmGalgenberg22 kmZigeunerberg22 kmGeiersberg23 kmHeideberg23 kmWolfsberg24 kmKapellenberg24 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Teichgebiete Niederspree-Hammerstadt18 kmTeiche und Wälder um Mückenhain18 kmDoras Ruh20 kmMuskauer und Neustädter Heide20 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.

German bunker from WW2 near Szprotawa by Maciej Boryna
Maciej Boryna · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bory Dolnośląskie jesienią - panoramio
rem49 · CC BY 3.0
Leśne ostępy - panoramio
rem49 · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 119Species

Muskau Park

Poland · 34 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 473Species

See the guide

Muskau Heath

Germany · 29 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 84Species

See the guide

Dresden Heath

Germany · 94 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 830Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q9177880) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species845 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, Birdyas

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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