Sowia Góra (Międzychód County) - Sowia Góra (powiat międzychodzki)

Owl Mountain - a small village of the sołecka located in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, in you will say Międzychodzki, in the municipality Between, by the provincial road no. 160. It is actually a forest settlement by the road Drezdenko - Międzychód in the Noteć Forest. The northernmost village in the commune.

Geographic coordinates: 52 ° 42′16.6 ″ N 15 ° 50′43 ″ E

General information

History

The former "Olęderska" village, founded on the basis of a location privilege in 1702.
The border ran here in the 18th century The Kingdom of Poland and the Prussian partition, lands plundered by Brandenburg.
In the years from 1920 to 1939, the village belonged to Poland. The Polish-German border was located nearby, running along the present-day border between the Lubuskie Voivodeship and the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
In the years 1975-1998, the town administratively belonged to the Gorzów Province.

A few cottages from the nineteenth and early In the 1980s, some of them were converted into private summer houses in recent years.

Where next

Nearby, 4 km W. there is a village Lubiatów, in the vicinity of which there are several lakes and nature reserves. At Lake Solecko (area 152 ha), on a peninsula with steep slopes to the lake, there is the "Czaplenice" reserve (area 8.1 ha) with a heron colony in it, spread among a natural pine forest. The islands of the lake contain the "Łabędziniec" reserve (area of ​​2.8 ha), established in 1959 on 5 islands inhabited at that time by waterfowl and marsh birds: herons, swans, cranes, black storks and many other more common species. Currently, a large proportion of the birds have moved to other places. On the nearby lake Łąkie (3 km south-west of Lake Solecko), in the reserve "Czaplisko" with an area of 2.9 ha, where there is also a heron colony. Recently, due to the construction of holiday centers, many birds have left their nests.

In Lubiatów, a half-timbered church from the 18th century has been preserved, thoroughly renovated around 1960.

The yellow trail from Sowia Góra to Drezdenko runs through Lubiatów, in the vicinity of the reserves.
There is also a hiking trail leading from Sowia Góra to Międzychód, Ustroń and Międzychód through the forests of the Noteć Forest.

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