Top 8 Gorges around Parsteinsee

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Station 1 leads to the Orchid Gorge - Wąwóz Storczykowy (formerly: Liehrsgrund) to an ash-elm forest with mountain, pointed and field maple, field elm and hornbeam; with the cape, the hawthorn, the hazel, the hawthorn and the black elderberry, in the ground vegetation appear more demanding species of forest such as: the great hellebore, the nettle-leaved bellflower, the forest twig, the sanikel, the forest zest and others. a. The orchid gorge is named after the once-abundant occurrence of the white forest bird (Cephalanthera damasonium [C. alba]), a stately orchid that has probably disappeared as a result of excessive overshadowing.

Station 4 leads into the Feldahorn Gorge - Wąwóz Paklonowy (formerly: Gloomy Reason) with a lookout. The eponymous tree, the field maple, is represented by about 50 handsome specimens. In addition, you will find mighty beech trees, huge grape oaks and 35 downy oaks. Above the Mittelweg there are stains of the stony-seed oak forest with buckthorn, blackthorn, field maple, field elm, downy oak, felt and dog rose, barberry, crown vetch, sickle alfalfa, upright zest and other dry grass species. Lost is the German Alant (Inula germanica).

Station 5 is on the edge of Quellschlucht - Parów Źródlany (formerly: Wassergrund) with huge specimens of field maple, beech and stalk oak. The reason for this is a brook that infiltrates the lower half of the gorge. On the eastern slope you pass a well-trained Sandfingerkraut Stipa dry grass with feather grass, hair grass, large grass lily, shaggy flagpole, golden hair aster, dwarf sedge, sickle alfalfa, Sommerwurz u. a. Also, there is a large eyrie of the downy oak with 85 specimens and a monumental hornbeam. On the western edge of the ravine and in the bottom, in the neighborhood of a mighty beech, stands an ash-elm forest with field elm, maple and field, beech, ash, hawthorn and viburnum; in the ground vegetation you can find giant fescue, dove droppings, whitefly, forest zest, forest twigs, muskweed, meadowcandle u.v.a. As you proceed, pay attention to the markings: here the path can branch out. A path is temporarily closed because of the protection zone for a black stork nest.

At station 8, in the The Elsberg canyon - Wąwóz Brekiniowy (formerly: the sarcophagus ground), there is the largest accumulation of the Elsbeere (Sorbus torminalis). It grows here in large complexes unlike old specimens of a few meters in height. Many of them are flowering and fruiting, yet the population is spreading mainly through root spawn. In the gorge itself, there is a typically trained ash-elm forest with field elm, field maple, beech, hazel, hawthorn and honeysuckle. In the ground vegetation can be found next to forest Ziest, large witch herb u. a. the thorny shield fern (Polystichum aculeatum [P. lobatum]).

Station 9 again features an information board. The trail begins at the bus stop (PKS), at the upper end of the Markenthun Gorge – Wąwóz Markociński (formerly: Grund von Markenthun) and follows the edge of this longest and largest gorge, at whose wide opening are the buildings of the Markenthun (Markocin) farm, through the center of the valley on an asphalt road to the village. A stream once flowed alongside, parallel to the path. Monumental beech trees and a sturdy sessile oak stand along the edge. Both slopes of the gorge are covered by Baltic beech forest, and a managed mixed forest also remains.