This post contains very special moments during my hiking in Poloniny, national park, especially Udava – Solinka, Balnica, Osadné area.
The footpath is a unique example of the accessibility of natural attractions and nooks and crannies located in the fifth, highest level of protection. It passes through the territory of the Poloniny National Park – the UDAVA Nature Reserve, which was declared a world natural heritage in 2007 within the beech forests of the Carpathians. The forestry educational trail starts at a place called Uhliská, continues along the old “innkeeper’s trail” to the Beskydy ridge, to the state border with the Republic of Poland. It makes accessible a part of the Udava Nature Reserve, which represents an extremely valuable forest area with a natural occurrence of fir. 10 information panels in the Slovak-Polish-English mutation, the first of which is located in the center of the village of Osadné (about 6 km away from the entrance gate of the MLNCH) offers, in addition to information about the natural features of the area, interesting facts from the history of this environment.
Osadné: The Ruthenian village on the upper reaches of the Udava under the main ridge of the Bukov mountains about 20 km north of Snina. Under the local Orthodox Church of the Ascension of God from 1933, there is a crypt with the remains of more than 1,000 Russian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers from the First World War, who fell in the vicinity of the village. Other attractions include the Greek Catholic church from 1792 and an almost 4 m high wooden statue of a standing bear, the symbol of the Ruthenians. The statue carries boards, informing in four languages about the cultural and natural attractions of the village and its surroundings. It was created in 2008 as a memorial to the filming of the documentary film “Osadné” directed by Marek Škop. Its author is the sculptor Ľubo Birka from Snina.
Bieszczady narrow gauge railway: The forest railway on the Polish side was built from Nowe Lupków to Cisna-Majdan in the years 1890-1898 at the initiative of Herman Jan baron Tschecz de Lindewald, the Austrian mayor of Przemysl. Its main mission was to collect wood and transport goods, but it also operated passenger transport. The original track gauge of 760 mm was rebuilt to 750 mm during the Second World War. Currently, the track is a sought-after seasonal tourist attraction, both in summer and exceptionally in winter. The educational trail leads to its Balnica station, where it passes from the Udavy basin to the Solinka basin.
Nature reserve Udava: Protected territory in the spring area of the Udava in the Bukovské vrchy northeast of Osadné, originally declared on an area of 52.09 ha in 1982 and expanded to 391.98 ha in 2005 to ensure the protection of natural processes and the unrestricted development of plant and animal communities and forest stands. It is considered one of the most valuable parts of the Poloniny National Park – Eastern Carpathian International Biosphere Reserve. In 2007, due to the exceptional value of the preserved beech and fir-beech forest communities, its territory became part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage as part of the Carpathian beech forests site, later transformed into 82 areas of the system with the common name “Old beech forests and beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe” located in 12 European countries (2018). They contain rare flora (Siberian iris, lung heather), but also fauna (a unique occurrence of eagles, owls and beasts: wolf, lynx, bear, wild cat). A few years ago, its former inhabitants – the bison – returned to it. The territory of the reserve lies in the territory of the Poloniny National Park of European importance as well as the protected bird area Bukovske vrchy (both are part of the Natura 2000 system).
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Time: September 2024
Location: Udava – Solinka, Balnica, Osadné Village, Snina County