"Uroczysko Buczyna" Nature and Landscape Complex

Uroczysko Buczyna is a nature and landscape complex on the border of Chorzów and Ruda Śląska, with an area of 65.32 ha. It is part of the protective forest belt of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, that is the greenery between the cities of the conurbation.

What grows in Uroczysko Buczyna

The forest is covered with acidophilous lowland beech forest together with the plant and animal species associated with it. Monumental trees also grow here.

The plants include species rare on a national scale: small enchanter's nightshade, lesser wintergreen, marsh stitchwort, crested buckler fern, floating pondweed, European white elm, oak fern and beech fern. A bladderwort, a carnivorous plant, also grows here.

Where it lies and where the trail goes

The complex lies in the catchment of the Kłodnica river, within the Katowice forest district. The green PTTK Twenty-fifth Anniversary Trail passes through it.

Practical information

• Location: border of Chorzów and Ruda Śląska, forest area without an address.
• Trail: the green PTTK Twenty-fifth Anniversary Trail; check the route and waymarking before you set out.
• A few kilometres away lies Silesian Park.