Rezerwat Góra Rzepka, Chęciny
Facts and practical information
Rzepka Mountain Nature Reserve - an inanimate nature reserve within the Chęciny-Kielecki Landscape Park in the municipality of Chęciny, Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Province. It is located about 1 km southwest of the center of Chęciny.
Area: 9.45 hectares, Year of establishment: 1981, Establishing document: MLiPD Order of 21.09.1981, PAC record number: 044, Nature of reserve: partial, Object of protection: outcrops of Devonian rocks and remains of historical ore mining
The reserve protects the tops and slopes of the adjacent hills of Góra Rzepka and Góra Beylina located in the Chêciny Range of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, as well as part of the former "Korzecko" quarry formed on their slopes.
On the southern slopes of Rzepki Mountain and on the walls of the quarry, xerothermic and rock grasslands occur. Protected and rare species of thermophilous plants grow here, such as: aster, stemless thistle, creeping thistle, meadow pasqueflower, steppe serpentine, blight and large-flowered anemone.
In 2015, the European Center for Geological Education, a science and research center of the Faculty of Geology at the University of Warsaw, was opened near the reserve on the site of a disused quarry.
Chęciny
Świętokrzyskie