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Tharandt Forest

Jörg Blobelt · CC BY-SA 4.0

94% trees around it and 271 species recorded.

64Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km54%
  • species recorded271
  • Altitude421 m

The forest around

94% 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 6%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Built-up 0%Trees 45%Grassland 18%Cropland 34%Built-up 3%Trees 23%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 54%Built-up 3%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km45%
  • 6–10 km23%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

271 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica196 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies82 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
European Larch
European LarchLarix decidua31 recordsFulvio Spada from Torino, Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wood Horsetail
Wood HorsetailEquisetum sylvaticum20 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara20 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum19 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern Red Oak
Northern Red OakQuercus rubra15 recordsNicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0
Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris12 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata12 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella12 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus11 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia10 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

64out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 54%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 271Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 421 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. Jan1°-5°61 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°41 mm
  3. Mar7°-1°48 mm
  4. Apr14°3°38 mm
  5. May18°8°64 mm
  6. Jun22°12°73 mm
  7. Jul25°14°87 mm
  8. Aug24°14°81 mm
  9. Sep19°9°58 mm
  10. Oct13°4°54 mm
  11. Nov7°1°56 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°56 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tharandt Forest.

Forest in Saxony, Germany

Tharandt Forest is a forest in Germany, 421 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 54% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

271 species have been recorded around it: 134 plants, 28 fungi, 107 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Norway Spruce and European Larch.

The best time to walk is in September.

20140618100DR Tharandt Seerenteich im Tharandter Wald
Jörg Blobelt · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Tharandt ForestGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Tharandt ForestBooking.comSee prices Car hire at DRS airport (Dresden)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Tharandt 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

  • 25marked trails within 5 kmRundweg Roter Punkt (Meißen - Schmilka), Geologisches Freilichtmuseum - Rundweg, Gelber Punkt and 22 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmAlte Kiefer, Wettineiche, Gemeine Eibe and 4 more
  • 73picnic sites within 4 kmRuppertbruch and 72 more
  • 82shelters and huts within 6 kmJudeichhütte, Schutzhütte Kirschberg, Schutzhütte Jägerhorn and 79 more
  • 15viewpoints within 5 kmLips-Tullian Felsen, Windberg, Tännicht-Blick and 12 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmInfopunkt Hetzdorf
  • 30car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmZur Platane, Caravanstellplätze "Hains" Freizeitzentrum - Freital, Campingplatz Reinsberg
  • 67places to stay within 10 kmJugendfreizeithof, Weidegut Colmnitz, Ferienwohnung Heilmann and 64 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Tharandt 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.

Peakyas170 mountains within 25 km
Landberg426 m · 3.9 kmLerchenberg425 m · 13 kmQuohrener Kipse452 m · 16 kmGohlig345 m · 16 kmWilisch476 m · 18 kmLuchberg576 m · 19 kmWäschberg402 m · 20 kmDrachenkopf bei Nassau805 m · 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Talsperre Klingenberg0.8 km² · 6.7 kmTalsperre Malter0.5 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Lohrmann ObservatoriumBortle 8 · 18 kmRadebeul ObservatoryBortle 5 · 20 kmGlashütte ObservatoryBortle 4 · 24 kmastronomical observatory Manfred von ArdenneBortle 6 · 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 km
Fire lookout towers Dresden (1972)14 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Weißeritztäler9.4 kmLinkselbische Bachtäler14 kmGroßhartmannsdorfer Großteich20 kmTäler in Mittelsachsen22 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.

Sandsteinbruch Tharandter Wald
Andre Kaiser at German Wikipedia · Public domain
20140618110DR Tharandt Seerenteich im Tharandter Wald
Jörg Blobelt · CC BY-SA 4.0
2016 Hainsberg Fichte im Tharandter Wald
Geri-oc · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Tharandt Forest

Germany

  • 64Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 271Species

Dresden Heath

Germany · 28 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 830Species

See the guide

Muskau Park

Poland · 108 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 473Species

See the guide

Dahlener Heide

Germany · 62 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 142Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2409158) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,001 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

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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