Heuscheuergebirge National Park
| National Park Góry Stołowe | |||
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| Location: | Lower Silesia , Poland | ||
| Specialty: | Highest mountain: Szczeliniec Wielki 919 above sea level | ||
| Next city: | Kudowa-Zdrój and Polanica-Zdrój | ||
| Surface: | 63.90 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1993 | ||
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The National Park Heuscheuergebirge ( Polish Park Narodowy Gór Stołowych ) is located in the Polish part of the Góry Stołowe (literally: Tischberge; German name: Heuscheuergebirge ), which belong to the middle Sudetes . The park is located in south-west Poland, in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship , on the border with the Czech Republic . It was founded in 1993.
landscape
In the national park there is a table structure with unusual rock shapes, which is rare in Europe . The shapes include “Kwoka” (hen), “Wielbłąd” (camel), “Głowa wielkoluda” (head of the giant). There is a network of rock labyrinths in the sandstone area. Some canyons are up to 12 m deep. The most famous of these bizarre sandstone formations are the "Błędne Skały" (erring rocks). The German name of the mountain is derived from the table mountains of the Großer Heuscheuer (919 m npm; Polish Szczeliniec Wielki , Czech Hejšovina ), and the Kleiner Heuscheuer (895 m npm; Polish Szczeliniec Mały ), which are reminiscent of gigantic haylofts with their shape also represent the highest elevations. Special sights in the national park, whose tourist development began as early as 1790, are, besides the two table mountains, the open-air museum for folk architecture of the Sudetes , which has been set up in the almost abandoned village of Pstrążna ( Strausseney ) , to which typical farmhouses of the area were brought to be rebuilt true to the original .
flora
Of the 650 species of vascular plants occurring in the park are currently 46 under protection of species . The current forest cover consists mainly of spruce trees of foreign origin, which were planted here at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries to replace the felled beech and fir forests. In some areas (only 3% of the forest area), however, the natural forest community has been preserved.
fauna
Deer , roe deer , wild boars , foxes , squirrels and small rodents are most common in the extensive forest complexes of the national park. As ornithological rarity of the National Parks are hazel grouse , the woodcock , the black stork , the honey buzzard , the Eurasian Hobby as well as for the region of taiga typical pygmy owl and boreal owl . Quail and corncrake, which are rare in Europe, breed on the large areas of grass . Living in the Gory Stolowe of reptiles adder , the grass snake , the sand lizard and the slow worm . The rarer amphibians include the salamander and the mountain newt , the crested newt and the common pond newt .
