  Magnetic skyrmions have attracted broad attention during recent years because
they are regarded as promising candidates as bits of information in novel data
storage devices. A broad range of theoretical and experimental investigations
have been conducted with the consideration of rotational symmetric skyrmions in
isotropic environments. However, one naturally observes a huge variety of
anisotropic behavior in many experimentally relevant materials. In the present
work, we investigate the influence of anisotropic environments onto the
formation and behavior of the non-collinear spin states of skyrmionic materials
by means of Monte-Carlo calculations. We find skyrmionic textures which are far
from having a rotational symmetric shape. Furthermore, we show the possibility
to employ periodic modulations of the environment to create skyrmionic tracks.
