Lemkivshchyna seen from horseback
Opis produktu
ROUTE TYPE: horse trail
ROUTE TARGET GROUP: route recommended for a group of several people, active people
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: route for experienced horse riders
ROUTE COURSE:
Kotań – Krempna – Polany – Olchowiec – Wilsznia - Smereczne – Tylawa – Zyndranowa – Lipowiec – Kamień (857 m a.s.l.) – Jasiel – Kanasiówka (823 m a.s.l.) - Dołżyca
ROUTE DESCRIPTION:
Day 1
We start our journey on horseback in Kotania. The Orthodox Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian is a place worth visiting. Then we head for Krempna. Here we stop for a moment at the military cemetery no. 6. We ride into the Magura National Park and pass through the village of Polany, which was founded in the mid-sixteenth century under the Vlach law. We pass the old Lemko huts. Olchowiec is the next village on our route; it was founded under the Vlach law in 1541. In Olchowiec, there is a private Lemko Museum, the collections of which include, among other things, a west Lemko thatched hut and a wooden granary. Then we go through the valley of the village of Wilcznia up to the ridge that separates us from the village of Smereczne, from where we go through Tylawa to Zyndranowa. Zyndranowa was one of the largest Vlach villages in the Low Beskids. In this small village, there is the Museum of Lemko Culture, which is a gem of Lemko culture in Podkarpacie. The facility consists of residential and farm buildings and originally designed huts with everyday objects. Then we cross the busy Dukla-Barwinek road and the trail from Zyndranowa leads us to Lipowiec - formerly populous Lemko village, now almost empty valley in the Low Beskids.
Day 2
From Lipowiec we set off to the top summit of Kamień (857 m a.s.l.), which is the highest peak in the whole eastern and central Low Beskids. On the eastern slope (border ridge) of the mountain next to the border post no. 134/2, in the place called Czereniny, there is a military cemetery from World War I. Then we follow the border ridge through Jasiennik (718 m a.s.l.) to Koprywiczna, where we turn off towards Rudawka Jaśliska towards Jasiel - the non-existent village located at the junction of the source streams of the Jasiołka river. It was mainly inhabited by the Lemkos and the Poles who were displaced as a result of the "Wisła" operation. In the village, an obelisk with a plaque commemorating the couriers from the Beskids, operating during World War II, and a monument commemorating the victims of the crime of 20 March 1946. Then we go back to the ridge through Jasiel. We pass the following peaks: Kanasiówka (823 m a.s.l.) Pasika (848 m a.s.l.) Danawa (841 m a.s.l.), Średni Garb (822 m a.s.l.), after which descend to Dołżyca, a village in the borderland between Bieszczady and the Low Beskids. The village is surrounded by wild wooded mountains, which ensure peace of mind and contact with nature.
STAGES, LENGTH AND ESTIMATED TIME:
Day 1
time: 9 hours
Day 2
time: 8 hours
DESCRIPTION OF OBJECTS:
ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN IN KOTANIA - former Lemko Greek catholic orthodox church from 1782. It is a wooden building with a tripartite and oriented log frame structure (women's gallery, nave, chancel). There are log frame domes inside above the nave and the chancel, and a flat ceiling in the women's gallery. On the log frame structure of the dome of the nave above the passage to the chancel, there are 16 icons from the old iconostasis from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1963, a lapidarium consisting of 22 historic tombstones and roadside statutes from Nieznajowa, Żydowskie and Ciechania was created around the church. The orthodox church is surrounded by the fence with a shingled roof and a gate from the 19th century. The area adjacent to the church contains a number of tombstones.
ORTHODOX CHURCH OF SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN IN KREMPNA - former Lemko Greek Catholic church built in the years 1778-1782. It is a wooden building with a tripartite and oriented log frame structure. There are tent-shaped domes inside above the nave and the chancel, and a flat ceiling in the women's gallery. The walls of the sanctuary are decorated with a polychromy with architectural motifs. There is a complete iconostasis painted or finished in 1835 by Krasucki from Przemyśl between the nave and the chancel. In front of the temple, there is a stone statue of St. Nicholas from the 19th century built by the stonemason's workshop in Bartne.
MILITARY CEMETERY NO. 6 IN KREMPNA - cemetery from World War I, designed by Dušan Jurkovič. In the centre of the cemetery, there is a monument supported by six stone pillars arranged in a circle, supporting the crown. This is the final resting place of many soldiers, including 53 Austro-Hungarians, 33 Russians and 34 unknown soldiers. They were mostly soldiers who were wounded in the battle to hold their positions on the Wisłoka river in winter in 1914 and died in a field hospital located in houses near the orthodox church. The cemetery is part of the World War I Eastern Front Trail in the Podkarpackie Province.
The LEMKO MUSEUM IN OLCHOWIEC is located in the Kolonia hamlet and managed by Tadeusz Kiełbasiński from Łódź, who was fascinated with Lemkivshchyna and bought an old Lemko hut in 1981; after some time, he arranged a museum there. Currently, the museum includes a wooden hut with a log frame structure (west Lemko type) and a roof covered with straw thatch, which consists of living quarters and utility rooms just like in a typical Lemko hut. Next to the main building, there is a wooden granary with a log frame structure and extended thatched gable roof. You can visit the museum from April to November at any time of the day. Entrance free of charge! Larger groups are kindly requested to inform the museum about the date on which they would like to visit it.
MUSEUM OF LEMKO CULTURE IN ZYNDRANOWA - founded in 1968 owing to the efforts of an indigenous inhabitant of Zyndranowa, Teodor Gocz. The hut dating from 1860 is the main site of the open-air museum. The interior of the hut is a reconstruction of the rural scribe office with archives, books, letters and photographs from the area of Lemkivshchyna. In the so-called chamber, sacral exhibits were collected, such as pieces of cast iron crosses, vestments, copies of icons. There also is a rich collection of Easter eggs decorated with the traditional Lemko patterns. Among farm tools and objects, you can see flails, looms, millstones. The Museum has also collected war memorabilia after the operations on the Dukla Pass.
"KAMIEŃ NAD JAŚLISKAMI" NATURE RESERVE - a nature reserve located in the Jaśliska commune, within the area of the Jaśliska Landscape Park. Fragments of the typical lie of the land of the Low Beskids, including the peak and slope of the Kamień mountain (857 m .a.s.l.) with beech and fir-beech forests, interesting rock formations and unique marshes called "berezednia" by the local population.
EVENTS:
Olchowiec
May – "Kermesze Łemkowskie" (EN. „Lemko indulgence”)
Komańcza
August – Spotkania przygraniczne Polski i Słowacji Komańcza – Medzilaborce (EN. Polish and Slovak border meetings Komańcza- Medzilaborce)
Zyndranowa
July/August - „Od Rusala do Jana”
Radoszyce
July - "Radoszyckie źródło" (EN. “Radoszyce spring”)
WHERE TO STAY AND EAT:
CICHY ZAKĄTEK Ropianka 2, 38-454 Tylawa phone: (13) 43 35 410 e-mail: cichyzakatek.ropianka@gmail.com
OSTOJA W LIPOWCU Lipowiec 2, 38-485 Jaśliska phone: +48 512 123 915 e-mail: kusniej@wp.pl
LEŚNA WILLA PTTK IM. IGNACEGO ZATWARNICKIEGO Komańcza 26, 38-543 Komańcza phone: +48 533 999 865 www.lesna-willa.business.site
KUŹNIA ŁEMKOWSKA Komańcza 192, 38-543 Komańcza phone: 501 550 673 e-mail: kuznialemkowska@interia.pl
Dodatkowe informacje
WHERE TO EAT AND SLEEP:
QUIET CORNER
Ropianka 2 , 38-454 Tylawa
tel .: (13) 43 35 410
Email: cichyzakatek.ropianka@gmail.com
OSTOJA IN JULYZ
Lipowiec 2, 38-485 Jaśliska
tel .: 512 123 915
e-mail: kusniej@wp.pl
FOREST VILLA PTTK IM. IGNACY ZWARNICKI
Komańcza 26, 38-543 Komańcza
tel .: 533 999 865
KUŹNIA ŁEMKOWSKA
Komańcza 192, 38-543 Komańcza
tel .: 501 550 673
e-mail: kuznialemkowska@interia.pl
