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Schloss Belvedere

Martin Falbisoner · CC BY-SA 4.0

31% trees around it and 559 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlifeWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km31%
  • wild within 10 km47%
  • species recorded559
  • Altitude295 m

The forest around

31% 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 17%Cropland 28%Built-up 3%Trees 29%Grassland 13%Cropland 50%Built-up 8%Trees 33%Grassland 13%Cropland 43%Built-up 11%Trees 34%Grassland 13%Cropland 48%Built-up 4%31%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km29%
  • 3–6 km33%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees29%
  • Grassland13%
  • Cropland50%
  • Built-up8%

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

559 species recorded.

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

Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas117 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata92 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bladdernut
European bladdernutStaphylea pinnata77 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Quince
QuinceCydonia oblonga72 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus68 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica63 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus49 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus46 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Meadow Crane's-bill
Meadow Crane's-billGeranium pratense42 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria37 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf honeysuckleLonicera xylosteum35 recordsDaniel Fuchs · CC BY-SA 2.5
Mountain Currant
Mountain CurrantRibes alpinum33 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · 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.

51out of 100

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

  • 31%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 47%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 559Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 295 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

Schloss Belvedere.

Palace and garden ensemble in Weimar, Germany

Schloss Belvedere is a protected forest in Germany, 295 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 31% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 47% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

559 species have been recorded around it: 364 plants, 45 fungi, 131 birds and 19 mammals.

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

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

Belvedere, Vienna September 2016
Martin Falbisoner · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Schloss Belvedere 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 kmGoethe-Erlebnisweg, Thüringer Drei-Türme-Weg, lokales Wegenetz Grüner Balken and 9 more
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmDorflinde, Alte Eiche, Hirtenlinde and 9 more
  • 35picnic sites within 4 km
  • 103shelters and huts within 6 kmHirtenberghütte, Tafelbuchenhütte, Casparibank and 100 more
  • 9viewpoints within 5 kmAllee, Hohe Nase and 7 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmBauhaus.Botschafter, Tourist-Information, DB Information and 2 more
  • 205car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Oettern, Hermann-Brill-Platz, Camping Tiefurt and 2 more
  • 98places to stay within 10 kmKipperquelle, Pension Am Goethewanderweg, Landhotel Possendorf and 95 more
  • 16restaurants 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 Schloss Belvedere.

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.

Peakyas203 mountains within 25 km
Kaitsch497 m · 6.3 kmSpaalberg512 m · 16 kmRiechheimer Berg513 m · 17 kmBlassenberg526 m · 18 kmHausberg392 m · 19 kmWache522 m · 19 kmJenzig385 m · 20 kmGroßer Kalmberg548 m · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Stausee Hohenfelden0.4 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jena ObservatoryBortle 6 · 17 kmSternwarte KirchheimBortle 4 · 25 kmKarl Schwarzschild ObservatoryBortle 3 · 26 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hainturm1.4 kmPaulinenturm6.2 kmCarolines Tower6.3 kmForst-Tower15 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Ilmtal zwischen Bad Berka und Weimar mit Buchfarter Wald3.0 kmAckerhügelland nördlich Weimar mit Ettersberg141 species · 8.7 kmMuschelkalkhänge der westlichen Saaleplatte12 kmMuschelkalkgebiet südöstlich Erfurt15 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Vergilgrotte Tiefurt5.4 kmDienstedter Karsthöhle19 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.

Schloss Belvedere Weimar Panorama
Mario Binar · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
20260413 Belvedere 01
Flocci Nivis · CC BY-SA 4.0
20260413 Belvedere 02
Flocci Nivis · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Schloss Belvedere

Germany

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

Park an der Ilm

Germany · 3 km

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

See the guide

Ettersburg Castle and Park

Germany · 11 km

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

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 111 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q314123) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,810 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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