
Germany forest
Murrhardt Forest
Jedesto · CC BY-SA 4.0
65% trees around it and 509 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km65%
- wild within 10 km90%
- species recorded509
- Altitude482 m
The forest around
65% 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 km77%
- 1–3 km64%
- 3–6 km71%
- 6–10 km64%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees64%
- Grassland25%
- Cropland5%
- Built-up6%
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
509 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).
- 65%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 509Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 482 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.
- Jan-3°67 mm
- Feb-3°50 mm
- Mar0°56 mm
- Apr4°46 mm
- May8°84 mm
- Jun12°69 mm
- Jul14°82 mm
- Aug14°78 mm
- Sep9°54 mm
- Oct5°64 mm
- Nov1°63 mm
- Dec-2°70 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Murrhardt Forest.
Mountains in Germany
Murrhardt Forest is a forest in Germany, 482 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 65% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
509 species have been recorded around it: 256 plants, 154 fungi, 92 birds and 7 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Coltsfoot and Himalayan Balsam.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Get there and walk
- Wohnmobilstellplatz Murrhardtcampsite · 1.7 km · 11 within 10 km
- Philadelphia Freizeitzentrumplace to stay · 1.1 km · 101 within 10 km
- Murrhardtnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight line
- Stuttgart Airport (STR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 41 km in a straight lineCar hire at STR airport (Stuttgart)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
- 72marked trails within 5 kmHauptlinie des SAV (blauer Strich), Rems-Murr Wanderweg, Georg-Fahrbach-Weg and 69 more
- 5named and notable trees within 6 kmKönigseiche am Limes and 4 more
- 24picnic sites within 4 kmMaienplatz, Raststelle Hunnenburg and 22 more
- 27shelters and huts within 6 kmTrögleshütte, Spechtshütte and 25 more
- 6viewpoints within 5 kmAussichtspunkt Hunnenburg, Riesbergturm and 4 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 kmTourist-Info im Naturparkzentrum Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald
- 113car parks within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Murrhardt, Jugendzeltplatz Wahlenmühle, Campingplatz Waldsee and 8 more
- 101places to stay within 10 kmPhiladelphia Freizeitzentrum, Ferienappartements am Bromersberg, Ferienwohnung Karin Wurst and 98 more
- 22restaurants 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 Murrhardt Forest.
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.
Figures 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.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1806754) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 6,298 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, 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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