Germany protected forest
Rosenstein Park
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38% trees around it and 906 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km38%
- wild within 10 km55%
- species recorded906
- Altitude258 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km27%
- 1–3 km39%
- 3–6 km48%
- 6–10 km41%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees39%
- Grassland7%
- Water2%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up52%
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
906 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
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
- 55%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 906Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 258 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.
- Jan-3°67 mm
- Feb-3°50 mm
- Mar0°56 mm
- Apr4°46 mm
- May8°84 mm
- Jun12°69 mm
- Jul14°82 mm
- Aug14°78 mm
- Sep9°54 mm
- Oct5°64 mm
- Nov1°63 mm
- Dec-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
Rosenstein Park.
Park in Stuttgart, Germany
Rosenstein Park is a protected forest in Germany, 258 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 38% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 55% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
906 species have been recorded around it: 599 plants, 85 fungi, 199 birds and 23 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Dogwood and Winter-aconite.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasencampsite · 1.7 km · 6 within 10 km
- Luna Innplace to stay · 1.5 km · 277 within 10 km
- Stuttgart-Ostnearest town · 2.3 km in a straight line
- Stuttgart Airport (STR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 52marked trails within 5 kmStuttgarter Rundwanderweg - Rößleweg, Botnanger Kuckucksweg, Nebenlinie Magstadt - Doggenburg and 49 more
- 30named and notable trees within 6 kmJahneiche, Schillereiche von 1865, Schillerlinde and 27 more
- 87picnic sites within 4 km
- 173shelters and huts within 6 kmBopserhütte, Gehrenwald, Im Hag and 170 more
- 107viewpoints within 5 kmAussichtsplatte Humboldtstraße, Aussichtspunkt Hasenberganlage (Hasenbergsteige 50), Weißenburg and 104 more
- 16visitor centres within 6 kmGläsernes Büro Rosenstein, Milaneo Kundeninformation, DB Information and 13 more
- 956car parks within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmCamping Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen, Wohnmobilstellplatz Fellbach, Sonnenhof and 3 more
- 277places to stay within 10 kmLuna Inn, Messehotel Europe, Steigenberger Graf Zeppelin and 274 more
- 448restaurants 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 Rosenstein Park.
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.
Peakyas113 mountains within 25 kmFrauenkopf462 m · 4.4 kmBopser485 m · 5.7 kmKappelberg469 m · 6.2 kmBirkenkopf511 m · 6.5 kmKernen513 m · 8.4 kmBernhartshöhe549 m · 13 kmUhlberg470 m · 19 kmBetzenberg500 m · 21 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 kmStuttgart ObservatoryBortle 8 · 2.3 kmCarl-Zeiss-Planetarium StuttgartBortle 8 · 2.4 kmUniversitätssternwarte PfaffenwaldBortle 8 · 9.5 km
Viewyas16 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonObservation Tower Burgholzhof1.8 km↗Killesberg Tower2.1 km↗Kriegsberg Tower2.6 km↗Eugensplatz2.9 km↗Santiago-de-Chile-Platz5.6 km↗Tor ins Remstal335 m · 9.9 km↗Sieben Linden11 km↗Kleinheppacher Kopf14 km↗
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmHeslacher Wasserfälle7.6 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyNeckar362 km · 140 m³/s↗Nesenbach13 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.
Other forests nearby.
Rosenstein Park
Germany
- 52Forestyas Score
- 38%Trees
- 55%Wild
- 906Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q882827) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 66,714 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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