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Site code
PLH 320013

English name:
Goleniow Refuge

Pobrzeza Poludniowobaltyckie
Ostoja Goleniowska
Some advice
How to get to Ostoja Goleniowska?
Area of the refuge is cut by a national road no. 3, which connects Goleniow and Swinoujscie cities as well as road no. 6: Goleniow-Koszalin. Goleniow can be also reached by coach or by train.

The easiest way to travel through area of the refuge is by bike, using forest paths or one of few marked cycling paths. A guide is available at Centrum Informacji Turystycznej Goleniowa (Goleniow Touristic Information Center).

Local touristic attraction:

  • Cisy Rokickie Nature Reserve - one of the most numerous Polish stands of common yew,
  • Uroczysko Swieta Nature Reserve - marshy birch grove with rich stands of royal fern, sweetgale and honeysuckle,
  • Wilcze Uroczysko Nature Reserve - alder swamps and alluvial forests, royal fern stands,
  • Czarnocin Nature Reserve - low-moor and alder-birch forest,
  • Odra estuary and Zalew Szczecinski - Natura 2000 refuge, water and coastal habitats rich in plant and animal species,
  • Goleniow: a gothic St. Catherine's church from the 15th/16th century, remains of town walls: Brama Wolinska (the Wolin Gate) from the 15th century, Wieza Mennicza (the Minting Tower), Baszta Prochowa (the Gunpowder Turret); a granary made of clay from the 18th century; it is recommended to follow signs of a town touristic trail which starts at Brama Wolinska,
  • Nowogard: a late-gothic church of the Assumption of NMP from the 15th/16th century, gothic town walls from the 14th century, ruins of von Ebersteins' castle,
  • Kulice: a palace complex of the Bismarck family from the 19th century,
  • Babigoszcz: a water mill from beginning of the 19th century,
  • Loznica: a clay-church from the 18th century.
Renata Krzysciak-Kosinska