Uchorowo is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Murowana Goślina, within
Poznań County,
Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
It lies approximately north-west of
Murowana Goślina (on the road to
Oborniki
Oborniki (german: Obornik) is a town in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 30 km north of Poznań. It is the capital of Oborniki County and of Gmina Oborniki. Its population is 18,176 (2005).
History
Oborniki was granted to ...
), and north of the regional capital
Poznań.
Uchorowo was first mentioned in written records in 1388. It has a 19th-century manor house (last restored in 1987), and a neo-Gothic chapel dating from 1890. The village formerly had a parish church and a primary school.
About 3 km south-west of Uchorowo, past the hamlet of Szymankowo, is the Śnieżycowy Jar nature reserve, founded in 1975 and now covering 9 hectares. It is most notable for the large numbers of
spring snowflake
''Leucojum vernum'', called the spring snowflake, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to central and southern Europe from Belgium to Ukraine. It is considered naturalized in north-western Europe, including ...
s (''Leucojum vernum'') which bloom in March. This is one of the few places where this flower is found in lowland Poland. It is thought to have been brought here by human intervention in the 19th century.
Notes
References
Local authority website*''Murowana Goślina i okolice'', N. Kulse, Z. Wojczak (local publication)
*
Article on nature reserve (in Polish)
Uchorowo
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