Uroczysko Bażantarnia nature reserve - floristic and forest nature reserve in Poland, in voivodeship of Lodz, in Skierniewice County, in Skierniewice commune and in the commune Maków in mesoregions Lowicko-Błońska plain, Wzniesienia Łódzkie.
Geographic coordinates: 51 ° 56′40 ″ N 20 ° 00′30 ″ E
The section of the railway line runs less than 1 km to the south-east Skierniewice-Koluszki, approx. 2 km to the east, the Maków railway stop, and 4 km to the south, the Płyćwia railway station. The A-2 motorway runs less than 10 km to the north.
It has an area of 44.52 ha. It was established by the order of the Minister of Forestry and Wood Industry of October 12, 1982.
A small forest area on the Uchanka River and in it is covered by the reserve protection beech on the border of the range and monumental oaks. The protection is to help preserve the following fragments: oak-hornbeam forest, luminous oak wood, alder and ash-alder riparian forest, and numerous monumental trees.
This forest from at least the 18th century served hunting purposes, as a "pheasantry" associated with the Skierniewice residence belonging to the archbishops of Gniezno, and in the 19th and early Twentieth century to the Russian tsars. The forest was fenced, and representative hunts took place here and in the nearby "Zwierzyniec".
The vegetation of the reserve consists of: a subcontinental oak-hornbeam forest, a riparian forest, a marshy alder forest and a luminous oak wood. The picturesque nature of the reserve is given by huge over 300-year-old trees. There are about 40 pedunculate oaks with trunk circumferences from 3 m to 5 m and 2 beeches with trunk circumferences of 2.40 and 2.80 m.
The flora of the reserve consists of: peach-leaved bell, pink pancake, medicinal primrose, Kashubian vetch, rutewkowata spa and yellow evil.
There are railroads just 15 km to the south Narrow-Gauge Railway Rogów - Rawa Mazowiecka - Biała Rawska on which tourist trains run in the season.
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