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Rohrwald

Naoag · CC BY-SA 3.0

62% trees around it and 389 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km62%
  • wild within 10 km34%
  • species recorded389
  • Altitude321 m

The forest around

62% 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 98%Grassland 2%Trees 57%Grassland 6%Cropland 36%Built-up 0%Trees 16%Grassland 8%Cropland 72%Built-up 4%Trees 25%Grassland 8%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 59%Built-up 7%62%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km57%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees57%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland36%
  • Built-up0%

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

389 species recorded.

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

Field cow-wheat
Field cow-wheatMelampyrum arvense30 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Melittis melissophyllum
Melittis melissophyllumMelittis melissophyllum18 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus17 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blackthorn
BlackthornPrunus spinosa14 recordsSphingonotus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum13 recordsJopi · Public domain
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana12 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Buckwheat
BuckwheatFagopyrum esculentum12 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus12 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Lady's-slipper orchid
Lady's-slipper orchidCypripedium calceolus10 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Johan N assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Dwarf Elder
Dwarf ElderSambucus ebulus10 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Meadow clary
Meadow clarySalvia pratensis10 recordsDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara10 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5

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).

  • 62%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 34%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 389Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 321 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan2°-5°41 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°34 mm
  3. Mar10°-1°42 mm
  4. Apr16°4°37 mm
  5. May20°9°77 mm
  6. Jun25°14°80 mm
  7. Jul27°16°78 mm
  8. Aug27°15°76 mm
  9. Sep21°10°70 mm
  10. Oct15°5°47 mm
  11. Nov8°1°40 mm
  12. Dec3°-4°39 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rohrwald.

Forest in Lower Austria

Rohrwald is a forest in Austria, 321 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 62% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 34% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

389 species have been recorded around it: 278 plants, 75 fungi, 32 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Field cow-wheat, Melittis melissophyllum and Spring vetchling.

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

Rohrwald Donaugraben
Naoag · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Wohnmobilpark Weg zum Hallenbad Stockeraucampsite · 8.6 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Familie Stummerplace to stay · 4.5 km · 20 within 10 km
  • Niederhollabrunnnearest town · 3.2 km in a straight line
  • Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 39 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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.

Rohrwald 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmRohrwaldweg, Jakobsweg Weinviertel, Korneuburger R.W.W and 5 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 8picnic sites within 4 kmRastplatzl Weingarten and 7 more
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmBarbara Warte, Leeberg and 4 more
  • 12car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilpark Weg zum Hallenbad Stockerau, Alte Au Stockerau, Wohnmobilstellplatz am Bahnhof Kritzendorf
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmFamilie Stummer, Gasthof Brait, Gasthof Schweinberger and 17 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 Rohrwald.

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.

Peakyas209 mountains within 25 km
Leopoldsberg425 m · 16 kmKahlenberg484 m · 16 kmVogelsangberg516 m · 17 kmHermannskogel544 m · 17 kmBuschberg491 m · 18 kmLatisberg492 m · 18 kmExelberg516 m · 21 kmGallitzinberg449 m · 23 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Purgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 15 kmVienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 22 kmKuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 24 kmVienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 24 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 24 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Auensteg11 kmTempelbergwarte11 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.

Jakobsweg Wegweiser im Rohrwald
Naoag · CC BY-SA 4.0
Schwedenhöhlen Rohrwald sl1
Stefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Michelberg Wall und Graben
Hermann Schwammenhöfer · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Rohrwald

Austria

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 34%Wild
  • 389Species

Vienna Woods

Austria · 48 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Maurer Wald

Austria · 31 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

See the guide

Krapfenwaldl

Austria · 18 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 2,015Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q200773) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,006 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, 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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