Top 20 Natural Monuments around gmina Kobylanka

A former chalk and marl mine operated by the nearby "Stern" Portland cement factory, founded in 1862 and owned by the Toepffer family. In 1925, a sudden flood of groundwater through a layer of permeable sand led to the quarry's opening. The quarry quickly filled with water. People were immediately evacuated. The quarry was flooded. Emerald Lake was created, which owes its color and name to the high calcium carbonate content in the water and the reflection of light from the chalk bed. In good weather, railway wagons and even workers' tools can still be seen at the bottom of the lake. A concrete bridge, part of the railway track used to transport chalk output to the nearby cement plant, still stands near the lake today.

The Heart Boulder, also known as the Mill Stone, is an erratic. Made of granite, its shape resembles a heart. It is entered in the register of natural monuments. It is also colossal in terms of size: impressive dimensions: circumference 14.5 m, and length over 4 m.

A great place for mtb. It reminds me a lot of the Tricity Landscape Park from where I live.

These are the remains of a former grain mill, whose history dates back over 700 years. The first owners were the Cistercians from Kołbacz (and who else ;). Subsequent owners were: the Swedes - during the Thirty Years' War they turned the mill into a powder mill - which was destroyed by fire, Hans Blaurock and his heirs in the 12th - 19th centuries (again as a grain mill), Friedrich Jaeckel from 1838 who started production here paper and bags for the nearby Stern cement plant, and finally Johannes Burmeister - in 1880 he founded a restaurant here which attracted crowds of tourists and the place became the main tourist center in the forest. The history of this place ends abruptly in 1944, when, as a result of war, some of the buildings were destroyed and then the whole thing was gradually devastated, until it reached its present state, i.e. a few remains in the form of: stairs, a dam embankment and a rotting valve, an overgrown mill pond and foundations and basement vaults.

It is proven that the hills on which the Forest is located were created as a result of the ice sheet that once existed here, or commonly known as a glacier. Numerous erratic boulders were moved along with the glacier from the areas of today's Scandinavia. Therefore, one of the erratic boulders was named after the glacier and the place where it probably comes from - Swedish Stone. It is a pink-gray, granoplastic erratic boulder (plagioclase-biotite gneiss) with a pegmatite vein, 910 cm in circumference and 180 m high, with deep frost cracks. The boulder is located on a small hill near Szwedzki Bruk (Chojnowska Road) about a kilometer south of Szwedzki Młyn. You can get there by following the green trail from Lake Szmaragdowe, or the red trail and then the green trail from the estate. Bukowy (having previously visited the Chojna stronghold and Szwedzki Młyn).

If you go to the Polish Baltic coast, you can take a small detour straight to the lake, just 15 km after the border of Germany - Pl podjuche exit, then the lake is directly on the right in the forest after a few km !!!

A walk around the lake is definitely worth it!

The lake is considered the most beautiful spot in Szczecin. Its name derives from its characteristic emerald-green hue, which results from saturation with calcium carbonate and the sunlight reflected off the chalk bedrock. Nearby, there is a viewing terrace offering panoramic views of the Lower Oder Valley and the city of Szczecin. On the southern shore is a fire station with an underground tunnel system, built by the Germans. Also nearby are the "Polana Widok" viewpoint, the "Grota" restaurant, and a walking path.