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Park an der Ilm

© R.Möhler · CC BY-SA 3.0

38% trees around it and 647 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlifeWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km38%
  • wild within 10 km41%
  • species recorded647
  • Altitude218 m

The forest around

38% 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 53%Grassland 10%Built-up 37%Trees 36%Grassland 11%Bare ground 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 22%Trees 25%Grassland 17%Cropland 51%Built-up 7%Trees 29%Grassland 11%Cropland 57%Built-up 3%38%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km53%
  • 1–3 km36%
  • 3–6 km25%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees36%
  • Grassland11%
  • Cropland30%
  • Built-up22%

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

647 species recorded.

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

Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas124 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bladdernut
European bladdernutStaphylea pinnata104 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata94 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quince
QuinceCydonia oblonga73 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica62 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus57 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus53 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Meadow Crane's-bill
Meadow Crane's-billGeranium pratense49 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus47 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria39 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus38 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis36 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · 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.

54out of 100

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

  • 38%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 41%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 647Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 218 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°-4°51 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°37 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°44 mm
  4. Apr14°3°35 mm
  5. May18°8°68 mm
  6. Jun22°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°77 mm
  8. Aug24°13°61 mm
  9. Sep20°9°56 mm
  10. Oct14°4°48 mm
  11. Nov7°1°54 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Park an der Ilm.

Park in Weimar, Germany

Park an der Ilm is a protected forest in Germany, 218 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 38% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 41% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

647 species have been recorded around it: 434 plants, 47 fungi, 145 birds and 21 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dogwood, European bladdernut and Garlic Mustard.

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

Ilmpark in Weimar - Blick zum Stern
© R.Möhler · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Park an der Ilm 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

  • 10marked trails within 5 kmGoethe-Erlebnisweg, Thüringer Drei-Türme-Weg, Maria-Pawlowna-Promenadenweg and 7 more
  • 17named and notable trees within 6 kmDorflinde, Alte Eiche, Hirtenlinde and 14 more
  • 26picnic sites within 4 kmHerders Ruh and 25 more
  • 86shelters and huts within 6 kmWaldhofhütte and 85 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmAllee, Fünf-Schlösser-Blick and 4 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmBauhaus.Botschafter, Tourist-Information, DB Information and 2 more
  • 592car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmHermann-Brill-Platz, Camping Tiefurt, Campingplatz Oettern and 2 more
  • 102places to stay within 10 kmHotel Residenz, Erbenhof Hotel, Anna Amalia and 99 more
  • 122restaurants 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 Park an der Ilm.

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.

Peakyas188 mountains within 25 km
Großer Ettersberg482 m · 6.8 kmKaitsch497 m · 9.3 kmRiechheimer Berg513 m · 18 kmSpaalberg512 m · 20 kmHausberg392 m · 20 kmJenzig385 m · 21 kmBlassenberg526 m · 21 kmWache522 m · 22 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Talsperre Großbrembach0.5 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jena ObservatoryBortle 6 · 18 kmSternwarte KirchheimBortle 4 · 26 kmKarl Schwarzschild ObservatoryBortle 3 · 26 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hainturm4.3 kmPaulinenturm8.4 kmCarolines Tower9.3 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Ackerhügelland nördlich Weimar mit Ettersberg141 species · 6.0 kmIlmtal zwischen Bad Berka und Weimar mit Buchfarter Wald6.1 kmMuschelkalkhänge der westlichen Saaleplatte14 kmMuschelkalkgebiet südöstlich Erfurt15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Vergilgrotte Tiefurt3.3 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Ilm134 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.

Goethe park at the river Ilm (12638268863)
Roberto Strauss from Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Das historische Reithaus im Park an der Ilm
Ejbw wiki · CC BY-SA 4.0
Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek im Park an der Ilm
Lina.foe · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Park an der Ilm

Germany

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 38%Trees
  • 41%Wild
  • 647Species

Ettersburg Castle and Park

Germany · 8 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 27%Wild
  • 329Species

See the guide

Schloss Belvedere

Germany · 3 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 559Species

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 112 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 956Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2052596) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species16,363 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, Birdyas, 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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