Muszkowice - village in Poland, located in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, in Ząbkowicki County, in in the Ciepłowody commune.
Information
In the years 1975-1998, the town administratively belonged to the then Wałbrzych Province.
Geographic coordinates: 50 ° 38′28 ″ N, 16 ° 57′57 ″ E
Historical monuments
According to the registry National Heritage Institute the list of monuments includes the baroque pilgrimage chapel. st. Anna, in the forest, on the "Maria Hill", from 1707, 1819, now a mass church, and around it, the 19th-century Calvary. In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, this place was a well-known and popular pilgrimage site, thanks to its miraculous painting, which, unfortunately, did not survive the turmoil of World War II.
Tourist routes
The blue tourist trail of PTTK Strzelin:Ząbkowice Śląskie – Bobolice - Cierniowa Kopa - Zameczny Potok - reserve Muszkowicki Beech Forest – Muszkowice – Henryków - Raczyce - Witostowice - Nowolesie - Nowoleska Kopa - Kalinka (hill) - Nowina - Dzierzkowa - Siemisławice - Przeworno - Krzywina - Garnczarek - Crossing under the Oak - The White Church (http://pttk-strzelin.pl/szlaki)
Where next
- The Muszkowicki Las Bukowy nature reserve, a real treat for nature lovers, who delights all year round - in spring thanks to the many rare species of plants blooming at that time, in autumn thanks to beech trees that are particularly beautiful at this time, some of which are more than 250 years old and over 100 cm in diameter. There are 11 species of trees, 19 species of shrubs and 83 species of herbaceous plants. The old tree stand is conducive to the nesting of numerous rare birds.
- Bobolice - a small village with a magnificent Gothic church under the invocation of Our Lady of Sorrows, before the war called by the local people "the White Cathedral". The value of the historic church is its homogeneous baroque and rococo furnishings, specially designed for it and harmonizing well with the interior architecture. Thanks to the miraculous statue of Our Lady of Sorrows, it has been a pilgrimage center since the 15th century. Every year, during the Christmas season, you can see an unusual Christmas nativity scene, one of the largest in Europe, built by parishioners. In the structure of the nativity scene, thanks to the structural changes introduced, a larger space resembling the interior of a cave was obtained. It is 19 meters (!) High and presents a panorama Bethlehem, and the figures here represent people known from the Bible and are life-size, as is the case with animals.
- In the immediate vicinity there are natural forests on steep hills. It is a good starting point for Nowoleska Kopa, Gromnik and Kalinka and the hills with traces of fortified settlements after the 9th-12th centuries.
- In the villages surrounding Muszkowice and Ziębice, there are numerous monuments of sacred art, churches, chapels, penitential crosses, border stones from the 13th century separating the former princely lands and the so-called Duchy of Bishop - the land of Otmuchów-Nysa. It is of particular importance Henryków, an old village with a complex of the former Cistercian monastery. The surrounding forests constitute very diverse communities.
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