Virgin Mountain - a hill 144.9 m above sea level on Greater Poland Lake District, located in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in poviat of Poznań, in Czerwonak commune. The relative elevation is about 90 m.
General information
Geographic coordinates: 52 ° 28′48 ″ N, 17 ° 00′40 ″ E
Dziewicza Góra is the highest hill in the area Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park. The area of the hill is included in a special area of habitat protection "Uroczyska Puszczy Zielonki".
The hill is the second highest in the hill band of the terminal moraine of the Poznań stadial.
It is located on the border of the Gniezno Lakeland (north) and the Września Plain (south).
History
The hill was originally named Maiden's Mountain, this name was associated with the cisterns, which were given to this area by prince Przemysł I in 1242. Over the years, the name has evolved to its present form.
The natural environment
Dziewicza Góra is part of the frontal moraine of the Poznań stadium, 10 km from Poznań, 2 km east of The Warta Valley. The slopes of the hill (the ridge is about 400 m long) are covered with mixed forest and in several places there are old trees oak. The area is under protection for about 700 species of vascular plants and about 130 species mosses and liverworts. These are species characteristic of various environments: forest, meadow, steppe and even mountain. The structure of this forest resembles the primeval primeval forest.
It also occurs on the slopes of the mountain June Polish, which may have been bred by cisterns, and from which the name of the nearby one comes from Flamingo.
Tourism
A popular excursion area with marked hiking trails and the "Dziewicza Góra" nature path.
Trivia. Tower
After a large fire in 1992, in which 250 ha of the Zielonka Forest and several smaller ones were burnt, it was decided to strengthen the fire protection of the forest complex. On the top of Dziewicza Góra, in 2005, the Łopuchówko Forest Inspectorate built a fire observation tower. The tower also serves as a viewing point for tourists. The reinforced concrete tower on a circular plan with a diameter of 4 m is 40 m high. The level of the observation cabin is 33 m, and below, at a height of 30 m from the base, there is an observation deck with an extensive view of Poznan. The building was carried out by Przedsiębiorstwo Projektowo-Budowlane MCP Kopuły z Bielsko-Biała, according to the design of eng. arch. Joanna Giczali-Ochodek and inż. Andrzej Czech (information on the board placed at the entrance to the tower in situ).
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