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Neuburg Forest

Konrad Lackerbeck · CC BY 3.0

55% trees around it and 811 species recorded.

59Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km55%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded811
  • Altitude508 m

The forest around

55% 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 52%Grassland 22%Cropland 24%Built-up 2%Trees 56%Grassland 16%Cropland 24%Built-up 4%Trees 46%Grassland 14%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 28%Built-up 9%Trees 41%Grassland 18%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 33%Built-up 6%55%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km56%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km41%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees56%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland24%
  • Built-up4%

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

811 species recorded.

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

Quaking-grass sedge
Quaking-grass sedgeCarex brizoides135 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa134 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur132 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Raspberry
RaspberryRubus idaeus126 recordsmako from Kangasala, Suomi (Finland) · CC BY 2.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria118 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Goat Willow
Goat WillowSalix caprea117 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurasian Aspen
Eurasian AspenPopulus tremula115 recordsØyvind Holmstad · CC BY-SA 4.0
Silver Birch
Silver BirchBetula pendula114 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Wood club-rush
Wood club-rushScirpus sylvaticus110 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior108 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra98 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus97 recordsBotaurus · 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.

59out of 100

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

  • 55%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 811Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 508 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°-5°68 mm
  2. Feb3°-5°52 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°61 mm
  4. Apr14°3°51 mm
  5. May19°8°97 mm
  6. Jun22°12°110 mm
  7. Jul24°14°102 mm
  8. Aug24°13°106 mm
  9. Sep19°9°74 mm
  10. Oct14°4°63 mm
  11. Nov7°0°55 mm
  12. Dec2°-4°61 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Neuburg Forest.

Mountains in Germany

Neuburg Forest is a forest in Germany, 508 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 55% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

811 species have been recorded around it: 711 plants, 0 fungi, 93 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Quaking-grass sedge, European Alder and Pedunculate Oak.

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

Neuburger Wald
Konrad Lackerbeck · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Dreiflüsse-Campingcampsite · 6.0 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Dormero Express Hotel Passauplace to stay · 5.2 km · 74 within 10 km
  • Fürstenzellnearest town · 4.1 km in a straight line
  • Linz-Hörsching Airport (LNZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 71 km in a straight lineCar hire at LNZ airport (Linz)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.

Neuburg 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

  • 16marked trails within 5 kmTrimm-Dich-Pfad Neuburger Wald, Wanderroute Via Nova, Donauhof-Mausmühle (Ilz) and 13 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmKlostenholz
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 31shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 35car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmDreiflüsse-Camping, Winterhafen Racklau, AlpacaCamping and 5 more
  • 74places to stay within 10 kmDormero Express Hotel Passau, Gasthaus Danzer, mk Hotel Passau and 71 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Neuburg 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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Galgen Berg7.9 kmFronberg592 m · 11 kmSchneckenberg373 m · 11 kmSteinberg830 m · 23 kmGodererkogel822 m · 24 kmGroßer Schefberg791 m · 24 kmHaugstein895 m · 24 kmStaffelberg793 m · 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Vornbacher Enge bei Vornbach9.7 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Neuburg Forest

Germany

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 811Species

Forstenrieder Park

Germany · 150 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,176Species

See the guide

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 146 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,141Species

See the guide

Perlacher Forst

Germany · 142 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1979340) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,159 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, Canyonyas

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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