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Veldensteiner Forst

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94% trees around it and 1,119 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km82%
  • species recorded1,119
  • Altitude447 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 94%Grassland 3%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 72%Grassland 14%Water 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 3%Trees 60%Grassland 19%Cropland 16%Built-up 5%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km72%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland3%
  • Cropland3%
  • 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

1,119 species recorded.

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

White helleborine
White helleborineCephalanthera damasonium308 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Broad-leaved Helleborine
Broad-leaved HelleborineEpipactis helleborine301 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bird's-nest orchid
Bird's-nest orchidNeottia nidus-avis299 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Royal helleborine
Royal helleborineEpipactis atrorubens170 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red helleborine
Red helleborineCephalanthera rubra135 recordsOrchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris134 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Narrow-lipped helleborine
Narrow-lipped helleborineEpipactis leptochila127 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 2.5
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias108 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Rock-rose
Common Rock-roseHelianthemum nummularium102 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea101 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common twayblade
Common twaybladeNeottia ovata100 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies94 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

82out 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
  • 82%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,119Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 447 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. Jan1°-4°58 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°44 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°48 mm
  4. Apr14°3°39 mm
  5. May18°8°76 mm
  6. Jun23°12°69 mm
  7. Jul25°14°77 mm
  8. Aug25°13°72 mm
  9. Sep20°9°55 mm
  10. Oct14°4°52 mm
  11. Nov7°0°57 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°60 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Veldensteiner Forst.

Unincorporated area in Germany

Veldensteiner Forst is a forest in Germany, 447 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 82% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,119 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 15 fungi, 100 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: White helleborine, Broad-leaved Helleborine and Bird's-nest orchid.

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

Lochstein Veldensteiner Forst
Sven-121 · CC0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Veldensteiner ForstGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Veldensteiner ForstBooking.comSee prices Car hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)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.

Veldensteiner Forst 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

  • 62marked trails within 5 kmJakobsweg Hof-Hiltpoltstein, Plech - Wiesenthau, Veldensteiner Forst - Rundweg roter Ring and 59 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmHerzingtanne, Friedenlinden, Grenzbaum and 2 more
  • 24picnic sites within 4 km
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmSchöne Aussicht Süd, Schöne Aussicht Nord, Beobachtungsturm and 1 more
  • 13car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmNeuhaus an der Pegnitz, Schlupfloch, Stellplatz Velden - Toni-Wolf-Platz and 7 more
  • 63places to stay within 10 kmWaldgaststätte Rußhütte, Zur Linde, Hotel Luca and 60 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Veldensteiner Forst.

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.

Peakyas152 mountains within 25 km
Schloßberg543 m · 8.3 kmKleiner Kulm627 m · 11 kmOssinger651 m · 12 kmKütschenrainberg647 m · 15 kmZantberg647 m · 15 kmHoubirg616 m · 22 kmSophienberg594 m · 23 kmNeubürg580 m · 24 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 km
Kleiner Kulm Observation Tower11 kmHimmelsleiter Pottenstein11 km
Birdyas4 birding sites within 25 km
Felsen- und Hangwälder in der Fränkischen Schweiz15 kmUS-Truppenübungsplatz Grafenwöhr22 kmVilsecker Mulde24 kmRegnitz- und Unteres Wiesenttal25 km
Cavernyas25 caves within 20 km
Geisloch bei Münzinghof7.3 kmHöhle ohne Namen7.8 kmMaximiliansgrotte8.0 kmBreitensteiner Bäuerin9.9 kmDevil's Cave11 kmStarenfels NE von Neutras mit Spalthöhle A1816 kmEsperhöhle19 kmSophienhöhle19 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Harnbach-Wasserfall11 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.

Damhirsche Wildgehege Veldensteiner Forst
Altaileopard · Public domain
Kanadagans beim Kammerweiher
Elena vdG · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kleiber auf Vogelhäuschen
Elena vdG · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Veldensteiner Forst

Germany

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,119Species

Winkelhofer Forst

Germany · 74 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 791Species

See the guide

Abenberger Wald

Germany · 64 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 957Species

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 128 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2512290) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species18,887 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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