Rezerwat Czartowe Pole

Czartowe Pole Nature Reserve - a nature reserve in Lublin Province, located in the municipalities of Józefów and Susiec. It lies within the Solska Forest Landscape Park.

It was established by order of the Minister of Forestry and Wood Industry of 21 July 1958 on the recognition as a nature reserve. The purpose of the establishment was to preserve the gorge and valley of the Roztocze river Sopot. In the act establishing the reserve the area was defined as 63.71 ha. However, the forest inspectorate data indicate an area of 80.07 ha.

The reserve is located at an altitude of about 217-255 m above sea level.

The name "Czartowe Pole" comes from a legend connected with a clearing included in the reserve, about which it was said that only devils wandered there.

The top parts of the steep slopes of the Sopot valley are overgrown with pine forest, which changes into mixed wet forest. The bottom of the valley is covered mainly by floodplain forests, and wet meadows in places. In the reserve you can see rare plants, such as: wolfsbane, Robert's capelin, rock and green sand martin, woodruff, spotted orchid, spiny fern, and broad-leaved marsh marigold.

The reserve does not have a current protection plan, however, there are protection tasks in force, by virtue of which the reserve's area is subject to active protection. Measures taken within the framework of the protection tasks are currently focused on limiting the gradation of the sharp-toothed bark beetle and the bark beetle.

In the reserve there are: the ruins of an old Zamoyski's paper mill, which is announced by a plaque on the didactic path, running next to the object: these are the ruins of a large industrial plant from the seventeenth century. It is the ruins of a large industrial plant dating back to the 17th century and belonging to the Zamoyski family. During the years of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland the plant was leased by Lejbus Kahan, and later by Cała Wax - the owner of a Hebrew printing house in Józefów. It produced 80% of paper in the Lublin province. Two floods and a fire contributed to its decline. A monument commemorating the Polish army maneuvers in 1931, symbolic graves of partisans killed in battles in 1943: Umer Achmołła Atamanow pseud. "Miszka Tatar" - commander of a GL unit, who died on June 1, 1943, during an attack on a Nazi penal expedition in Jozefów, Hieronim Miąc a.k.a. "Korsarz" - commander of an ZWZ-AK unit in Jozefów, died on August 5, 1943, during an operation to amputate his arm. He was wounded during the fights in the Dębowce forest.