Attractions and Places To See around gmina Krzyż Wielkopolski - Top 20

I went to this place on purpose thinking that there would be more of it than in the photos posted by one of the users of this portal and I will not regret it. Well, I got there, and unfortunately I was disappointed. I will not even mention the access road itself, where it was impossible to drive through the sandy terrain at all and you had to change your route, driving around either on asphalt or paved with cobblestones (stones). It is difficult to call this place a park, it is far from it. Let's say that it is an ordinary forest with plastic mushrooms placed thanks to the initiative of the local community. Some of them (the larger ones) are impressive, but there is nothing special. A nice idea were the houses made in the theme of mushrooms-toadstools, which you can enter. The statue of a deer placed in the middle of the hill so that it looks out at the surrounding area made the biggest impression on me. Quite a nice effect. There are benches under a roof on the spot, you can rest. There are waste bins, the area is quite well-kept. The only downside is the two toilet cubicles available for public use, as of June 2025 I do not recommend even going there, there is a risk of radiation (that's how I felt and quickly lost my appetite for everything). :P If you are going with children, there are a few swings nearby. When driving by, you can drop in for a moment, but to go there specifically, I repeat - I do not recommend it.

A small settlement of Ostrowite located in the heart of the Drawieński National Park. It was founded in 1588 by a representative of the Wedel-Rüdiger family from Drawno. In 1820, the village became the property of the von Sydow family from Głusk. There was a forge here, and a water mill on the Płociczna. The settlement has preserved 4 half-timbered buildings built for forest workers. A beautiful, historic maple alley leads through the center of the settlement.

A theme park dedicated to mushrooms. The axis of the park is an educational and nature trail with enlarged models of mushrooms (0.5-3 m high) enriched with appropriate descriptions. They are intended to show the diversity and richness of the forests of the Notecka Forest. The park was established in 2013.

Tragic surface. It's supposed to be gravel, but it's so undulating that driving on it is torture. There is a washboard along the entire width of the road, there is no place to escape. I recommend avoiding this road!

The historic settlement of Ostrowite at the Ostrowite lake (Ostrowskie lake). Charming half-timbered houses, a path, the remains of a church and a church cemetery. Two shelters, it's worth taking a break in this place.

A section of about 8 km between Sieraków and Borzysko Młyn, a hardened gravel road, no sand, but the washboard is so terrible that the brain bounces inside the skull and the fillings in the teeth are loosening 😱😱,

One of the oldest hydropower plants in Poland and Europe. In 1896, only 5 years after the construction of the first hydroelectric power plant in the world, the first works on the construction of a power plant on the Drawa River were undertaken. The beginning of the industrial operation of the power plant dates back to 1903. In 1921, the hydro power plant was included in the German national network. Until 1941, as part of the "Kaskady Drawa" project, it was planned to expand the existing power plant and build new ones in Barnim, Zatom, the former settlement of Springe (Dąbrowa) and in Mostniki. These plans were not implemented.

Within the Drawieński National Park, we can find five interesting closed Evangelical cemeteries. They are usually located near non-existent settlements such as Zietenfier (Sitno), Steinbuscher Glashütte (Podszkle), Springe (Dąbrowa), Lüdertswalde bei Mariental and one in still inhabited Ostrowite. They are characterized by unusual stone tombstones in the shape of a tree trunk, symbolizing the cut down tree of life. They are so precisely reproduced that after years, when they are partially covered with lichen, it is difficult to distinguish them from real trunks. In Springe there is also an interesting tombstone in the shape of an open book. Since 2014, the DPN has started to renovate the cemeteries, the area of the necropolis has been cleaned, fenced and information boards have been set up, on which we can read the history of a given place. And so we will learn that the village of Spinge was founded after the Thirty Years' War as a grange and a sheepfold. There was a watermill and a brickyard here. An industrial railway with a length of 22 km was even built here, which was used to transport milk, cheese and bricks from the village. In its heyday, the village was inhabited by 212 people. On the other side of the road, opposite the cemetery, there was a school, and a bit further an inn. The village became depopulated in 1932. Today, the site of the village is located near the hamlet of Moczele.