The nature reserve "Muszkowicki Las Bukowy" - a forest nature reserve in the south-west Poland, in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, in Ząbkowicki County, in the Ciepłowody commune, on the Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie Hills, on Sudeten foothills.
Geographic coordinates: 50 ° 38′30 ″ N 16 ° 57′30 ″ E
The reserve is a real treat for nature lovers, it delights all year round - in spring thanks to 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.
It is located in the southern part of the Niemczańskie Hills, in the Ciepłowody commune, 5 km east of Bobolice, about 10 km west of the village Henryków. It is entirely located in the Natura 2000 area Muszkowicki Bukowy Forest PLH020068 (a special area of habitat protection) and the Protected Landscape Area of the Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie Hills.
The reserve with an area of 16.43 ha was established in 1966 by the order of the Minister of Forestry and Wood Industry. It was established to protect rare plant species, natural plant communities, and to preserve and protect the natural beech forest and fragments of plume of riparian forest.
Partial, forest, nature reserve "Muszkowicki Las Bukowy" (formerly called "Bugaj") is located on the southern slope of a forested hill Bucznik above Zamecznym Potok and is intended to preserve the fragment beech forest with the features of a natural complex, oak-hornbeam and riparian oak-hornbeam forest with a rich flora of the undergrowth.
Zameczny Potok flows out at an altitude of 334 m above sea level. in the northern slope of Cierniowa Kopa on the southern edge of the Dobrzenieckie Hills near Baldwinowice and Kolonia Bobolice. It flows through the Bukowy Las on the Ziębicka Upland in a shallow, winding valley, forming meanders, between the Piaskówka and Buczniak hills in the north and Zameczna, on the edge of the Muszkowicki Bukowy Forest nature reserve. It goes to the Złotnik under Chapel Hill wheel Muszkowic.
The reserve includes a fragment of the original beech forest that has survived in the past Sudetes and The Sudeten foothills. The forest growing on the slopes of the ravine and the stream in which the trouts live are under protection. This area combines the presence of mountain and lowland species. In addition to beech trees, they are also found here sessile oaks, sycamores, spruces, ash trees, mountain elms and small-leaved linden trees. The lower parts of the forest are also rich. Among the 20 species of trees and 80 species of green plants, you can find as rare as: giant horsetail, spring snowstorm, yellow gamekeeper, sweet frost, spring peas, hairy buttercup, common quadrilateral, angular spurge, multiflorous coconut, blackberry, lily of the valley, creeping bugle, red brush, mountain speedway, it is mundane, ear break, scatter eating, water church and other. They are also numerous here orchids. In a small area of the reserve, there is a significant species diversity, which results from the habitat area at the top and at the bottom of the ravine. The reserve protects the most valuable hundred-year-old old trees growing in the deep valley of the Zameczny Potok.
There is a rich fauna of invertebrates, some are very rare in Poland, e.g. Carpathian snail, which reaches its northern range here, and edged snail a species that is extremely threatened with extinction.
In the beech forest near the reserve there are burial mounds of the Lusatian culture, consisting of 29 mounds, which are a valuable archaeological monument.
The blue PTTK Strzelin tourist trail passes through the reserve:Ząbkowice Śląskie - Bobolice - Cierniowa Kopa - Zameczny Potok - 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)
For motorists there is a forest parking lot near the reserve with a place to rest. It is worth going with the family on a Sunday picnic (more on the pages: http://www.sudety.net.pl).
On the edge of the forest in the village Muszkowice there is a baroque chapel of St. Anna from 1707 and the 19th-century Calvary around it. In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, this place was a well-known and popular pilgrimage site, due to the miraculous painting, which, unfortunately, did not survive the turmoil of World War II.
In the vicinity of 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 extraordinary nativity scene built by parishioners, one of the largest in Europe. The structure of the nativity scene measures 19 meters and shows the panorama of Bethlehem, and the figures are life-size.
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