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Vienna Woods

Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

85% trees around it and 353 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km85%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded353
  • Altitude847 m

The forest around

85% 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 84%Grassland 16%Built-up 0%Trees 78%Grassland 20%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 66%Grassland 29%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%85%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km84%
  • 3–6 km78%
  • 6–10 km66%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees84%
  • Grassland16%
  • 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

353 species recorded.

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

Wild basil
Wild basilClinopodium vulgare11 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Glutinous sage
Glutinous sageSalvia glutinosa10 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Phyteuma spicatum
Phyteuma spicatumPhyteuma spicatum10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica8 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Meadow salsify
Meadow salsifyTragopogon pratensis7 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sword-leaved helleborine
Sword-leaved helleborineCephalanthera longifolia6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pale orchid
Pale orchidOrchis pallens6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western Marsh-orchid
Western Marsh-orchidDactylorhiza majalis6 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon6 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Heartleaf oxeye
Heartleaf oxeyeTelekia speciosa6 recordsHardyplants · Public domain
Hemp-agrimony
Hemp-agrimonyEupatorium cannabinum6 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
True oxlip
True oxlipPrimula elatior6 recordsԱրարատ Թրվանց · 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.

83out of 100

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

  • 85%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 353Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 847 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. Jan0°-6°61 mm
  2. Feb2°-5°53 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°62 mm
  4. Apr13°2°52 mm
  5. May17°7°110 mm
  6. Jun21°11°120 mm
  7. Jul23°13°116 mm
  8. Aug23°12°115 mm
  9. Sep18°8°99 mm
  10. Oct13°4°67 mm
  11. Nov7°0°55 mm
  12. Dec2°-4°56 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Vienna Woods.

Mountain range near Vienna, Austria

Vienna Woods is a forest in Austria, 847 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 85% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

353 species have been recorded around it: 99 plants, 213 fungi, 40 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild basil, Glutinous sage and Phyteuma spicatum.

The best time to walk is in September.

Peilstein
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Vienna Woods 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

  • 23marked trails within 5 kmWaldmarkweg, Wiener Mariazellerweg 06, Mödlinger Rundwanderweg and 20 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmKaisereiche
  • 3picnic sites within 4 kmTürkensteine
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 kmSchöpfl-Schutzhaus, Falkensteiner Hütte and 4 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmLaabentalblick, Schöpflblick, Schneebergblick and 2 more
  • 16car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmParadise Garden
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmLand Hotel zur Post, Gasthof Renzenhof, Brandtner Seminar and 15 more
  • 6restaurants 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 Vienna Woods.

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.

Peakyas214 mountains within 25 km
Schöpfl893 m · 0.2 kmKieneck1,106 m · 14 kmAlmesbrunnberg1,079 m · 17 kmTrafelberg1,146 m · 18 kmUnterberg1,342 m · 18 kmHochstaff1,305 m · 21 kmReisalpe1,399 m · 24 kmJochart Berg1,266 m · 24 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Leopold-Figl-ObservatoriumBortle 3 · 0.8 kmVolkssternwarte MichelbachBortle 3 · 12 kmConrad ObservatoryBortle 3 · 18 kmSterngartenBortle 7 · 26 kmFranz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 30 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Matraswarte893 m · 0.2 kmMeyringer-Warte10 kmBuchbergwarte14 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.

20170618 Biosphärenpark Wienerwald 9833
Ailura · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
20170618 Biosphärenpark Wienerwald 9835
Ailura · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
20170618 Wienerwald DSC 6064
Granada · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Vienna Woods

Austria

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

Maurer Wald

Austria · 26 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

See the guide

Dunkelsteinerwald

Austria · 38 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 393Species

See the guide

Krapfenwaldl

Austria · 37 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 2,015Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q251246) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,856 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, Cavernyas

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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