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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 77%Grassland 12%Cropland 5%Built-up 5%Trees 64%Grassland 25%Cropland 5%Built-up 6%Trees 71%Grassland 22%Cropland 5%Built-up 2%Trees 64%Grassland 24%Cropland 7%Built-up 4%65%trees · 3 km

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.

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata36 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara35 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera34 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow marsh marigold
Yellow marsh marigoldCaltha palustris31 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Horsetail
Wood HorsetailEquisetum sylvaticum28 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica28 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum28 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
True oxlip
True oxlipPrimula elatior25 recordsԱրարատ Թրվանց · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus24 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum24 recordsJopi · Public domain
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus22 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria21 recordsUnknown author · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

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.

  1. Jan3°-3°67 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°50 mm
  3. Mar9°0°56 mm
  4. Apr15°4°46 mm
  5. May19°8°84 mm
  6. Jun23°12°69 mm
  7. Jul26°14°82 mm
  8. Aug25°14°78 mm
  9. Sep21°9°54 mm
  10. Oct15°5°64 mm
  11. Nov8°1°63 mm
  12. Dec4°-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.

MurrhardterWald
Jedesto · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Murrhardt Forest 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

  • 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.

Peakyas96 mountains within 25 km
Hohe Brach587 m · 8.0 kmHagberg585 m · 9.3 kmJuxkopf533 m · 14 kmSteinknickle525 m · 17 kmStocksberg539 m · 18 kmEinkorn510 m · 19 kmHehlberg504 m · 21 kmAltenberg565 m · 23 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Riesberg Tower0.7 kmHagberg Tower9.3 kmKerner Tower12 kmJuxkopf Tower505 m · 14 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Vorderer Waterfalls2.8 kmHinterer Wasserfall2.8 kmHinterer Hörschbachwasserfall3.5 kmHörschbach4.2 kmForellensprung11 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.

Murrhardt - Altstadt - Klosterhof - Hexenturm - Ansicht von NO
Roman Eisele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Murrhardt - Altstadt - Klosterhof - Pfarrhaus - Nordost-Seite von Osten
Roman Eisele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ausblick vom Riesbergturm Richtung Murrhardt - panoramio
qwesy qwesy · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Murrhardt Forest

Germany

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 509Species

Schönbuch

Germany · 58 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 507Species

See the guide

Schurwald

Germany · 29 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 768Species

See the guide

Rammert

Germany · 71 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 76%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 481Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1806754) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,298 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, 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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