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Maurer Wald

Funke · CC BY-SA 4.0

79% trees around it and 2,164 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km79%
  • wild within 10 km71%
  • species recorded2,164
  • Altitude372 m

The forest around

79% 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 94%Grassland 5%Built-up 1%Trees 78%Grassland 9%Cropland 0%Built-up 13%Trees 62%Grassland 10%Cropland 2%Built-up 26%Trees 59%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 5%Built-up 26%79%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km78%
  • 3–6 km62%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees78%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up13%

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

2,164 species recorded.

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

False hellebore
False helleboreAdonis vernalis388 recordsMartin Bahmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas210 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus191 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Spurge-laurel
Spurge-laurelDaphne laureola181 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum172 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica168 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata163 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea151 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba141 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus131 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Meadow clary
Meadow clarySalvia pratensis129 recordsDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Pasque Flower
Greater Pasque FlowerPulsatilla grandis116 recordsEleassar · 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.

76out of 100

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

  • 79%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 71%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,164Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 372 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. Jan2°-5°42 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°38 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°46 mm
  4. Apr15°4°41 mm
  5. May20°9°85 mm
  6. Jun24°13°91 mm
  7. Jul26°15°88 mm
  8. Aug26°15°86 mm
  9. Sep20°10°79 mm
  10. Oct14°5°54 mm
  11. Nov8°1°45 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°42 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Maurer Wald.

Forest in Vienna

Maurer Wald is a forest in Austria, 372 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 79% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 71% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,164 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 1,000 fungi, 134 birds and 30 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: False hellebore, Dogwood and Dwarf Elder.

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

Eichwiese Maurer Wald I
Funke · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Reisemobil-Stellplatz Wiencampsite · 5.7 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Parkhotel Schönbrunnplace to stay · 5.8 km · 429 within 10 km
  • Perchtoldsdorfnearest town · 4.0 km in a straight line
  • Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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.

Maurer Wald 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

  • 68marked trails within 5 kmStadtwanderweg 6 - Zugberg - Maurer Wald, Nordalpenweg 01, Wiener Mariazellerweg 06 and 65 more
  • 27named and notable trees within 6 kmSieben Eichen, Schubertlinde, Über 100jährige Stieleiche and 24 more
  • 244picnic sites within 4 kmRastplatz Bierhäuselberg and 243 more
  • 454shelters and huts within 6 kmLaabersteig and 453 more
  • 49viewpoints within 5 kmPerchtoldsdorfer Weitblick and 48 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmInfo & Gutscheine, Infocenter, Schönbrunn - Meiereitor and 4 more
  • 313car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmReisemobil-Stellplatz Wien, Wohnmobilabstellplatz MICAMPA Wienerwald, MICAMPA Wien Wienerwald and 1 more
  • 429places to stay within 10 kmParkhotel Schönbrunn, Kyriad Vienna Altmannsdorf, PLAZA Premium Wien and 426 more
  • 58restaurants 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 Maurer Wald.

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.

Peakyas259 mountains within 25 km
Höllenstein645 m · 7.5 kmAnninger675 m · 12 kmHermannskogel544 m · 14 kmKahlenberg484 m · 15 kmLeopoldsberg425 m · 16 kmJochgrabenberg645 m · 17 kmHoher Lindkogel834 m · 18 kmPeilstein716 m · 21 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Wienerwaldsee0.2 km² · 9.6 km
Darkskyas8 dark-sky places within 30 km
SterngartenBortle 7 · 0.9 kmKuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 7.6 kmVienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 11 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 12 kmVienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 13 kmFranz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 16 kmPurgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 16 kmLeopold-Figl-ObservatoriumBortle 3 · 25 km
Viewyas13 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hubertuswarte508 m · 2.6 kmWienerblick434 m · 3.3 kmJosefswarte, Perchtoldsdorf4.1 kmHimmelhof4.3 kmJubiläumswarte449 m · 7.9 kmPaulinenwarte12 kmWiener Riesenrad13 kmHabsburgwarte14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Liesing30 kmPetersbachVösendorfer GrabenKnotzenbachLindgrabenbach

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

20201230 Maurer Wald
Funke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eichwiese Maurer Wald
Eknuf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hohenauer Wiese Lainzer Tiergarten
Eknuf · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Maurer Wald

Austria

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

Vienna Woods

Austria · 26 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Krapfenwaldl

Austria · 14 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 2,015Species

See the guide

Bratislavský lesný park

Slovakia · 63 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q21859793) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species58,357 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, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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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