Top 10 Natural Monuments in Lasy Murckowskie

Dąb Tadeusz - a natural monument in Katowice, located in the southern part of the city, near Hamerla, located in the Murcki district, in the Murckowskie Forest complex. It is a 300-year-old [1] tree of the English oak species (Quercus robur L.) with a height of 30 meters and a diameter at breast height of 437 centimeters (Wikipedia)

interesting place, worth visiting.

A nature and landscape complex located in the southern part of the city of Katowice (the junction of the following districts: Brynów, Osiedle Paderewskiego-Muchowiec, Giszowiec and Piotrowice-Ochojec), in the Murckowski Forests, at the source of the Kłodnica River. The clean water of the river in its upper reaches offers the possibility of existence for many rare species of plants and animals. The spring area is overgrown with a riparian forest with a well-preserved tree stand. http://www.dioblina.eu/Zrodla_Klodnicy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV7Ckf0dYlw

The oldest of Murcek's legends concerns the backwoods located in this area, called by the locals Siągarnia. It says that it was there that a certain witch wanted St. Clement, a student of Cyril and Methodius, who at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries was to Christianize the area. Siągarnia was located on the road to Klemensowa Górka and Lędziny, which are the oldest named places in this area; it was also the main Krakow-Wroclaw route and the Levantine trade route. Long before the mine was established, in the vicinity of today's Wanda Hill, there was a forest colony of tar makers, i.e. people who burn charcoal for the forge in Paprocany. In the 17th century, in a place called Rudne Kotliska, coal was dug that came out to the surface. Evidence of its use is an entry in the books of Pszczyna from 1657 about the use of Murckowski coal in Kuźnia Jaroszowice. http://www.polskaniezwykla.pl/web/place/25525,katowice-murcki---historia--legendy-i-slady-po-dawnych-kopalnianych-szybach.html

Tadeusz Oak - a natural monument in Katowice, located in the southern part of the city, near Hamerla, in the Murcki auxiliary unit, in the Murckowski Forest complex. It is a 300-year-old tree of the species pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.), 30 meters high and 437 centimeters high at breast height. This tree was established as a natural monument by the Katowice City Council by a resolution of June 1, 2017, along with 23 other trees. On the basis of the same resolution, the City Council named the tree Tadeusz. This name commemorates Tadeusz Norman, a long-standing forest inspectorate of the Katowice Forest District, who worked for the shaping, durability and development of Upper Silesian forest complexes. Hamerla - a forest settlement in Katowice, in the Murcki auxiliary unit, in the southern part of the Murckow Forest. It is located one kilometer from the border between Katowice and Lędziny. The settlement was founded by the Hamerla family (hence its name). In the 1940s, the inhabitants moved out, leaving the area as a gift for the Katowice Forest District. Currently, it consists of two residential houses. In Hamerla, there is the seat of the Daniel hunting club in Tychy and a drone belonging to the Silesian Beekeepers Association. Trutowisko was established in 1953 by the Poviat Beekeepers Association in Tychy. Meetings of beekeepers are organized here, and beekeeping is also popularized here. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%85b_Tadeusz https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamerla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaxOaLr0iw

Wzgórze Wanda (originally Białobrzeska Góra, in the interwar period, Wzgórze Erdman) - the highest point of Katowice and the Mikołowski Upland of the Katowice Upland (352.4 m above sea level). It is located in the Murcki district in the Murckowski Forest, south of the buildings of the Murcki estate. They are covered with beech forests with specimens that are 300 years old. These forests constitute a nature reserve called Las Murckowski. There is a fire observation tower on the hill. The hill was originally called Białobrzeska Góra after the Biała river flowing out of it. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wzg%C3%B3rze_Wandy_(Katowice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQpEgYNCso

The beginning of bison breeding in 1865 in the Pszczyna forests was the exchange of twenty deer captured in the Pszczyna forests for four Białowieża bison (one bull and three cows), made between Jan Henryk XI Hochberg and Russian Tsar Alexander II. In April, the animals were delivered by rail to the goods station of the Emanuelssegengrube mine in Murcky. From where they were transported to the Wygorzele forestry (Tych district) of the Murcki forest district and placed in a yard with an area of 2 ha, where they were fed with oats and hay. In order to improve the breeding conditions, a year later the animals were moved to the fenced game "Oberfosten" with an area of 600 ha. Then, around 1891, the breeding was moved to the “Niederforsten” zoo in the Pszczyna forest district, where in a semi-free breeding farm with uncontrolled reproduction, European bison could move freely in the area of over 11,000 hectares of forests located between Jankowice and Cielmice. During that time, they were periodically fed in winter. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBubry_murckowskie