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Seulingswald

2micha · CC BY 3.0

77% trees around it and 246 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km78%
  • species recorded246
  • Altitude480 m

The forest around

77% 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 94%Grassland 5%Cropland 1%Trees 75%Grassland 16%Cropland 5%Built-up 5%Trees 61%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 2%Trees 55%Grassland 19%Water 0%Cropland 20%Built-up 6%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km75%
  • 3–6 km61%
  • 6–10 km55%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees75%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland5%
  • Built-up5%

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

246 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata10 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus9 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum8 recordsJopi · Public domain
Dog-rose
Dog-roseRosa canina6 recordsNick Dvalishvili · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hare's ear mustard
Hare's ear mustardConringia orientalis6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis6 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea6 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Guelder-rose
Guelder-roseViburnum opulus5 recordsWaitblock · CC BY-SA 4.0
White swallow-wort
White swallow-wortVincetoxicum hirundinaria5 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pipi69e assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica4 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum4 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon4 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 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.

70out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 78%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 246Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 480 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan2°-4°67 mm
  2. Feb3°-3°48 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°52 mm
  4. Apr13°3°40 mm
  5. May18°7°76 mm
  6. Jun21°11°65 mm
  7. Jul24°13°82 mm
  8. Aug24°13°68 mm
  9. Sep19°8°58 mm
  10. Oct13°4°56 mm
  11. Nov7°1°63 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Seulingswald.

Mountain range

Seulingswald is a forest in Germany, 480 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 78% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

246 species have been recorded around it: 111 plants, 0 fungi, 124 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Spring vetchling and Woodruff.

The best time to walk is in September.

Toter mann nordost
2micha · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Wohnmobilstellplatz Festhalle Friedewaldcampsite · 2.0 km · 12 within 10 km
  • Reitsportferienanlage Weitzplace to stay · 6.4 km · 86 within 10 km
  • Friedewaldnearest town · 2.7 km in a straight line
  • Kassel Airport (KSF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 66 km in a straight lineCar hire at PAD airport (Büren)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.

Seulingswald 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

  • 15marked trails within 5 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E6, Deutschland, Hessen, Frau-Holle-Pfad, Thüringen-Hessen-Rhein-Wanderweg 03, Friedewald - Kirchheim and 12 more
  • 21named and notable trees within 6 kmRinaldoeiche, Wilhelmseiche, Körner Eiche and 18 more
  • 28picnic sites within 4 km
  • 50shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzhütte Lautenhausen, Rinneckhütte, Am Schnurrbart and 47 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmSängerhütte
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 42car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Festhalle Friedewald, Wohnmobilparkplatz Herfa, Reisemobilstellplatz am Breitenbacher See and 9 more
  • 86places to stay within 10 kmReitsportferienanlage Weitz, Gästehaus Pension Weitz, Pension Zum Landecker and 83 more
  • 1restaurants 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 Seulingswald.

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.

Peakyas355 mountains within 25 km
Dreienberg525 m · 3.5 kmSoisberg630 m · 13 kmAlheimer549 m · 17 kmÖchsen627 m · volcano · 17 kmDietrichsberg669 m · 19 kmStoppelsberg524 m · 19 kmEisenberg (Knüll)636 m · 23 kmSchorn559 m · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
PlanetariumBortle 3 · 30 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mahnmal Bodesruh8.5 kmRobert-Heil-Tower11 kmSoisberg Tower13 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Fuldatal zwischen Rotenburg und Niederaula124 species · 4.7 kmRhäden von Obersuhl und Auen an der mittleren Werra122 species · 22 kmKnüll22 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.

Salzberg kaliwerk wintershall heringen
2micha · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Seulingswald

Germany

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 246Species

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 62 km

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

See the guide

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Germany · 56 km

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

See the guide

Kaufungen Forest

Germany · 39 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 210Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1248308) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,042 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, Birdyas

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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