Top 19 Natural Monuments around Suchedniów

A must visit on Sieradowicki

The oldest oak tree in Poland

"Bartek Oak" grows on the Ćmińsk - Samsonów - Barcza road. The oak has been a natural monument since 1954. Dendrologists estimate that the oak is over 700 years old. The tree is about 30 meters high, the trunk circumference is almost 10 meters. The crown span is 20x40 meters. On the side opposite the road, the oak is devoid of branches, this is the result of necrosis that affected the tree after the fire in 1906. By the oak there is a chapel dedicated to St. Hubert, as well as information boards and a roofed shelter.

It is not the oldest oak, but it is still worth seeing.

In 1900, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his literary work, the Polish society organized a fundraiser for the future Nobel Prize winner and funded it in gratitude for his work. On this occasion, a civic committee was formed to prepare a program for the jubilee celebrations. The notarial deed was signed in Kielce on July 18, 1900 in the presence of counselor Tadeusz Kowalski and priest Zygmunt Chełmicki, who acted on behalf of the committee and the seller, the notary Mieczysław Halik. The property was bought back for 51,249 rubles and 59 kopecks. The estate consisted of a total of 515 acres, including: 240 acres of forest, 160 acres of arable land, 90 acres of meadows, a park, an orchard, etc. With the funds remaining after the purchase of the property, the funds from the collection were purchased for the writer (60 cattle, 6 horses, and agricultural machinery and tools). For this occasion, the sculptor Pius Weloński made a bust of the writer from white marble. The manor house designed by the Warsaw architect Hugo Kuder was built in 1895, the area around the palace, 49 hectares of land[3], was designed and arranged by the Warsaw gardener Franciszek Szanior. The road to the palace leads through the Red Gate and then through the linden alley.

Next to Bartek, at the parking lot, there is a brand new nature education park for children. There are a lot of installations of benches and a playground.

Wykus was the base of Polish partisans. During the January Uprising, insurgents commanded by Marian Langiewicz were stationed here. During World War II, camps of Polish underground soldiers were located here, first under the command of Maj. Henryk Dobrzański "Hubal", later the Home Army Partisan Groups "Ponury" - lieutenant cc. Jan Piwnik "Ponury". On On September 15, 1957, in the place of the former camp, a chapel with the image of Our Lady of Sorrows was unveiled, commemorating those who died in the fight for the homeland. On its walls there are 123 nicknames of soldiers who died during the war. The shrine is surrounded by a wall, on which there are several hundred plaques with the names of the dead soldiers of the "Ponury" and "Nurt" groups. The chapel with the surrounding area within a radius of 30 m is the "Wykus" National Memorial Site and is entered in the register of immovable monuments. Every year, on the second Saturday of June, ceremonies commemorating the fallen soldiers of the Partisan Groups of the Home Army "Ponury" are organized in Wykus. Wykus (326 m above sea level) is also a nature reserve.

The Wykus partial reserve was established by the Ordinance of the Minister of Forestry and Wood Industry of October 11, 1978. The total area of the reserve is 53.01 ha, including 52.7 ha of forest and 0.31 ha of non-forest land. The reserve belongs to the Suchedniów Forest District, Bronkowice Forest District, Bodzentyn and Wąchock communes. The subject of protection in the reserve are diversified and highly natural forests with the participation of pine, fir and oak, hornbeam, birch, aspen and alder. The age of the upper layer of trees varies from 70 to 100 years, with specimens reaching 140 years. They are a great natural asset of the reserve. The highest degree of naturalness is characteristic of forest-like fir and alder stands. The area of the reserve is overgrown with a number of forest vegetation communities, among which the following deserve attention: Carpathian beech forest, oak-hornbeam forest, upland fir forest, mixed forest, Central Polish mixed forest with fir and alder and ash riparian forest. Many interesting and protected species of plants grow in the undergrowth and undergrowth, including: hepatica, live onion, three-needle moss, bugle, laurel and clubmoss. However, Wykus is famous above all for its many historical places. Large complexes of forests have long provided shelter to patriots fighting for the independence of our country. It was here that the January insurgents found shelter and the partisans of World War II. The Wykus Reserve is an important junction of tourist trails. They lead to it: - green hiking trail from Skarżysko (Mostek) - blue pedestrian from Wąchock and Bodzentyn - black pedestrian from Starachowice - red bicycle from Mostki, Wąchock and Bronkowice