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Wörlitzer Park

Jwaller · CC BY-SA 3.0

26% trees around it and 641 species recorded.

57Forestyas Score

ProtectedWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km70%
  • species recorded641
  • Altitude61 m

The forest around

26% 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 19%Grassland 43%Wetland 2%Water 7%Cropland 18%Built-up 12%Trees 27%Grassland 34%Wetland 1%Water 4%Cropland 33%Built-up 1%Trees 29%Grassland 28%Wetland 0%Water 3%Cropland 32%Built-up 7%Trees 49%Grassland 23%Water 2%Cropland 23%Built-up 2%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km19%
  • 1–3 km27%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km49%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees27%
  • Grassland34%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water4%
  • Cropland33%
  • Built-up1%

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

641 species recorded.

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

Baldcypress
BaldcypressTaxodium distichum190 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare35 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Large yellow vetch
Large yellow vetchVicia grandiflora34 recordsUser:Bogdan · Public domain
Flowering-rush
Flowering-rushButomus umbellatus33 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas31 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare31 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mugwort
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris30 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus30 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hoary alison
Hoary alisonBerteroa incana29 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
St John's wort
St John's wortHypericum perforatum27 recordsProf. Dr. Thomé, Otto Wilhelm · Public domain
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium27 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Common bugloss
Common buglossAnchusa officinalis25 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

57out of 100

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

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 70%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 641Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 61 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°-3°55 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°37 mm
  3. Mar8°0°41 mm
  4. Apr15°4°30 mm
  5. May20°8°57 mm
  6. Jun23°13°53 mm
  7. Jul26°15°78 mm
  8. Aug25°14°61 mm
  9. Sep20°10°52 mm
  10. Oct14°5°47 mm
  11. Nov8°2°50 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°50 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wörlitzer Park.

Park in Oranienbaum-Wörlitz, Germany

Wörlitzer Park is a protected forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 70% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

641 species have been recorded around it: 493 plants, 19 fungi, 119 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Baldcypress, Vipers bugloss and Large yellow vetch.

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

WörlitzAmaliengrotte
Jwaller · 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.

Wörlitzer Park 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmLutherweg Sachsen-Anhalt, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E11, Sachsen-Anhalt (O), Wildebergweg and 1 more
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmEiche - Naturdenkmal, Kastanie - Naturdenkmal, Friedenseiche and 1 more
  • 26picnic sites within 4 kmFahrradrast and 25 more
  • 59shelters and huts within 6 kmFörsterdreieck, Am Kapenschlösschen, Oranienbaum, Busbahnhof (Bussteig 2) and 56 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmDrehberg, Schöne Aussicht, Englischer Sitz and 3 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmTouristinformation Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz, Wörlitz Imbiß, Information Truck Driver and 2 more
  • 15car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmWörlitzer Park, Kanuverein Coswig (Anhalt) e.V., Marina Coswig and 8 more
  • 48places to stay within 10 kmPension am Park, Parkhotel, Pension Schulze and 45 more
  • 13restaurants 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 Wörlitzer Park.

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.

Peakyas40 mountains within 25 km
Au-Berg10 kmHandels-Berge12 kmZwergsberge14 kmGalgen-Berg15 kmBunkerberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg75 m · 16 kmHohe Jöst19 kmHirseberg20 kmGabel-Berge24 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Schönitzer See0.3 km² · 2.9 kmAlte Elbe0.4 km² · 5.3 kmBergwitzsee1.7 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomy Station "Samuel Heinrich Schwabe"Bortle 5 · 13 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Mittlere Elbe einschließlich Steckby-Lödderitzer Forst10 kmZerbster Land25 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.

I08 977 Großes Wallloch
Falk2 · CC BY-SA 4.0
I08 978 großes Wallloch, Amaliengrotte
Falk2 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich 2012-05-27f
Rabe! · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Wörlitzer Park

Germany

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 70%Wild
  • 641Species

Düben Heath

Germany · 24 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 159Species

See the guide

Grunewald

Germany · 89 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 1,574Species

See the guide

Spandauer Forst

Germany · 96 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,029Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q638162) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,275 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, 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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