The best cycling routes in Rezerwat Wielki Bytyń

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Wałcz-Strączno road-asphalt road, Strączno-Nakielno bicycle path-asphalt (mushrooms in the forest in autumn: bay boletes, chanterelles), Nakielno-Walcz Forest District forest road (blueberries in season).

Cool gravel trail. Can be slow, can be fast.

To the south-east of the village of Strzaliny, there is Góra Hangman (151 m above sea level), the remains of the fortified group "Góra Wisielcza", fortifications of the Pomeranian Wall (1933-38). This shelter was the strongest group of fortifications of all German fortifications during the Second World War. Undeveloped underground corridors with a total length of 800 meters, bats are fond of one of the largest wintering grounds in Poland.

The present church was built in 1680 and rebuilt around 1744. It is erected in a skeletal structure as a hall building, oriented. It was laid out on a rectangular plan with a three-sided chancel from the east and a sacristy added from the north. The building does not have any stylistic features. Due to the simplicity of construction, workmanship and appearance of the building, it can be assumed that it was made by local carpenters. At the end of the 19th century, its walls were still not boarded. Currently, it is a building with wooden walls on an unplastered foundation made of field stones, mainly granite. Only a wooden beam in the axis of the church, collar beams and a few rafters have survived from the original roof truss, it was replaced with a purlin truss. The historic organ gallery with a simple balustrade decorated with panels is based on profiled posts with carved decorations - these are pine cones placed between crenels. Inside, there was a baroque altar from the mid-seventeenth century, unfortunately it was destroyed, only fragments have survived, there is also a painting of the Mother of God from 1806 by a folk artist. A late-gothic cast-iron crucifix is visible in the rood beam. The interior has partially lost its historic character. However, it is worth paying attention to the external doors: double-leaf, boarded in rhombuses, studded with iron. A similar door, but single-leaf, leads to the sacristy. There is also a door that once led to the church from the north, and is now bricked up from the inside. During the renovation carried out around 1980, the boarding of the external walls was renewed. The building has no basement, the external facades have no decorative elements.

A nice break from the churches on the route :p.

Ree Family Mausoleum. The building in the form of an ancient temple dates from the mid-nineteenth century. Most likely, its designer was the famous architect Karol Fryderyk Schinkel. Two columns stand out in the façade of the mausoleum on the south side. The poor condition of the plaster covering them contrasts with the freshness of the classical Ionic capitals (heads). They were made of a very unusual and expensive material - refined tin resistant to low temperatures (below 13°C the tin disintegrates into a gray powder - this phenomenon is referred to as leprosy or tin plague)

The existing church was built in 1819 and its founder was Onufry Grabski. The date of construction of the building is located near the north-western corner on the beam of the north wall. It is a modest building on a rectangular plan, closed with a pentagon from the east, with a sacristy added on a rectangular plan. It was erected on a stone foundation, in a half-timbered structure, the spaces between the beams are filled with burnt bricks, combined with lime mortar. Roman numerals visible on some beams are assembly marks. The gable roof made of ceramic tiles over the presbytery turns into a brog roof. Inside the temple, the ceiling is reinforced with transverse wooden beams, which in turn are supported by six wooden vertical pillars. These pillars imitate columns with hexagonal heads and create the appearance of dividing the hall into three pseudo-naves. Among the historic furnishings of the interior, it is worth paying attention to the altar from the 17th century with paintings of St. Joseph and the Holy Trinity from 1818, a pulpit and a confessional from the second half of the 17th century, a hanging candlestick from 1852.