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Schaumburg Forest

O.Drachenfels · CC BY-SA 4.0

46% trees around it and 148 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km46%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded148
  • Altitude50 m

The forest around

46% 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 72%Grassland 18%Cropland 11%Trees 43%Grassland 14%Water 1%Cropland 40%Built-up 2%Trees 27%Grassland 20%Water 1%Cropland 48%Built-up 4%Trees 27%Grassland 22%Water 3%Cropland 41%Built-up 7%46%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km43%
  • 3–6 km27%
  • 6–10 km27%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees43%
  • Grassland14%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland40%
  • 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

148 species recorded.

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

Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea14 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata13 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora7 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare6 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Heal-all
Heal-allPrunella vulgaris6 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common borage
Common borageBorago officinalis5 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia5 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus5 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica4 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Buckwheat
BuckwheatFagopyrum esculentum4 recordsSAplants · 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.

43out of 100

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

  • 46%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 148Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 50 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. Jan3°-2°69 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°50 mm
  3. Mar9°0°50 mm
  4. Apr14°4°38 mm
  5. May18°8°60 mm
  6. Jun22°12°62 mm
  7. Jul24°14°78 mm
  8. Aug23°13°68 mm
  9. Sep19°10°55 mm
  10. Oct14°6°59 mm
  11. Nov8°3°62 mm
  12. Dec4°0°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Schaumburg Forest.

Forest in the district of Schaumburg in the German federal state of Lower Saxony

Schaumburg Forest is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 46% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

148 species have been recorded around it: 62 plants, 0 fungi, 84 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ground-ivy, Garlic Mustard and Small yellow balsam.

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

Hutebuche im Schaumburger Wald
O.Drachenfels · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Wohnmobilstellplatz Bückeburg Hafenstraßecampsite · 4.6 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Rothehof Ferienwohnungenplace to stay · 4.2 km · 39 within 10 km
  • Hespenearest town · 2.8 km in a straight line
  • Hannover Airport (HAJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at HAJ airport (Hannover)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.

Schaumburg 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmPilgerweg Loccum - Volkenroda (Teilstrecke Loccum - Silberborn)
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmCup Tree Bierde
  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmMariahöh Wandersruh
  • 14shelters and huts within 6 kmMariahöh Wandersruh and 13 more
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Bückeburg Hafenstraße, Wohnmobilstellplatz am Badesee Lahde, Campingplatz Lahde and 4 more
  • 39places to stay within 10 kmRothehof Ferienwohnungen, Albrecht's Hotel und Restaurant, Hotel & Restaurant Schäferhof and 36 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Schaumburg 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.

Peakyas54 mountains within 25 km
Bückeberg375 m · 12 kmPapenbrink303 m · 15 kmJakobsberg235 m · 16 kmWittekindsberg282 m · 17 kmHäverstädter Berg270 m · 18 kmEidinghauser-Berg247 m · 20 kmHohenstein340 m · 23 kmBergkirchener Kopf255 m · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Baltussee0.2 km² · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Wilhelms-Tower13 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 km
Schaumburger Wald4.9 kmVogelschutzgebiet Weseraue131 species · 8.7 kmWeserstaustufe Schlüsselburg14 kmVogelschutzgebiet Bastauniederung134 species · 20 kmSteinhuder Meer240 species · 21 kmWesertalaue bei Landesbergen22 kmUhu-Brutplätze im Weserbergland23 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.

Eiche an der Cammer Brink im Schaumberger Wald, ND
WikiVagant · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mausoleum Graf Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst zu Schaumburg-Lippe
Grugerio · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mausoleum Gräfin Juliane von Schaumburg-Lippe
Grugerio · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Schaumburg Forest

Germany

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 148Species

Teutoburg Forest

Germany · 54 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 306Species

See the guide

Grinderwald

Germany · 31 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 191Species

See the guide

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Germany · 117 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 646Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1513780) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,368 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, 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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