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Muskau Heath

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

77% trees around it and 84 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded84
  • Altitude148 m

The forest around

77% 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 85%Grassland 12%Bare ground 0%Built-up 2%Trees 76%Grassland 21%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 55%Grassland 31%Water 1%Bare ground 9%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%Trees 61%Grassland 24%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 7%Built-up 4%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km76%
  • 3–6 km55%
  • 6–10 km61%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees76%
  • Grassland21%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up2%

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

84 species recorded.

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

Whorl-leaf watermilfoil
Whorl-leaf watermilfoilMyriophyllum verticillatum9 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scirpus radicans
Scirpus radicansScirpus radicans8 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Diphasiastrum zeilleri
Diphasiastrum zeilleriDiphasiastrum zeilleri6 recordsSimona Krátká · CC0
Stone bramble
Stone brambleRubus saxatilis5 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pipsissewa
PipsissewaChimaphila umbellata4 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas4 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Twinflower
TwinflowerLinnaea borealis4 recordsStatskog SF · CC BY-SA 2.0
Perennial Wall-rocket
Perennial Wall-rocketDiplotaxis tenuifolia4 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Blue-eyed-Mary
Blue-eyed-MaryOmphalodes verna3 recordsAfanasovich · CC BY 4.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria3 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria3 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eurasian Aspen
Eurasian AspenPopulus tremula3 recordsØyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 84Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 148 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

Muskau Heath.

Forest in Germany

Muskau Heath is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

84 species have been recorded around it: 44 plants, 5 fungi, 32 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Whorl-leaf watermilfoil, Scirpus radicans and Diphasiastrum zeilleri.

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

Muskau Heath seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

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.

Muskau Heath 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmRund um Weißwasser, Wanderweg Rietschener Teichgebiet, Wanderweg "Lausitz" and 1 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmStieleiche
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 28shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmWinkelcamp, Biwakplatz für Wasser- und Radwanderer am Ein- und Ausstieg Sagar, Endlich Camping and 4 more
  • 19places to stay within 10 kmPension Werda, Ferienwohnung Keding, Waldhaus and 16 more
  • 1restaurants 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 Muskau Heath.

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.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Zigeunerberg7.2 kmKatzenberge12 kmWolfsberg19 kmWespenberg20 kmBrandberg175 m · 20 kmHoher Berg184 m · 20 kmHohe Dubra307 m · 21 kmMonumentberg293 m · 22 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Bärwalder See3.8 km² · 13 kmHalbendorfer See0.8 km² · 14 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Gloriette11 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Muskauer und Neustädter Heide9.5 kmTeichgebiete Niederspree-Hammerstadt12 kmDoras Ruh17 kmVogelschutzgebiet Biosphärenreservat Oberlausitzer Heide- und Teichlandschaft18 kmZschornoer Heide18 kmTalsperre Quitzdorf21 kmTeiche und Wälder um Mückenhain24 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Muskau Heath

Germany

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

Muskau Park

Poland · 11 km

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

See the guide

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland · 29 km

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

See the guide

Dresden Heath

Germany · 73 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1426692) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species506 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, Viewyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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