Tatra National Park

Basic Information It was founded in 1955 by the Council of Ministers. The area is 21197 ha and the length of hiking trails is over 270km. This is one of 23 national parks in the country. Its counterpart on Slovak side is TANAP. It is located in the Malopolska district, and in the highest mountain range in Poland. About 70% of the area is taken up[by forest and thickets of mountain pine; the rest is mostly water, rocks and alpine grasslands

The history of the park In 1868 the Galician parliament established the law ‘in relation to the ban on catching, killing and selling alpine animals, proper Tatra marmot and wild goats’. Then in 1873 the Tatra Society was created, which extended the protection on certain plants, such as alpine edelweiss, yew and pine; With ordinance of the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform of 26 June 1939 a special organizational unit of the State Forests "Nature Park in the Tatra Mountains, was created in order to "maintain the Tatra flora and fauna and protection of all other forms of wildlife for scientific, aesthetic, historical,commemorative”; First ideas about the creation of a reserve in this area emerged in the 80s in nineteenth century, following the example of the American Yellowstone park.

Process of Creation The Polish Tatras had to wait for the creation of a national park six years longer than the Slovak Tatras. The park protection covered the entire mountain area and the buffer zone in Podhale. At the time of the creation of the park Tatra Mountains were devastatedthe number of wild mammals was low, and the stand was in a terrible state. Before and during World War II more than half of the Tatra Mountains were a property of the Uznański family, however after the Second World War, while applying for the creation of a national park in the mountains, their property was nationalized.

Photo of a mountain goat by Renata and Marek Kosinscy Landscape photo by Adam Brzoza Photo of a bear by Filip Zięba Landscape photo by Marcin Kęsek

Calendarium 1947 - protected area Tatra National Park was created in the former site of the Uznańskis property 1948 - strict reserve called nature reserve Tomanowa-Smreczyny was created in upper part of Kościeliska valley 1954 - Tatra National Park was created with an addition of the Community Forest Eligible Eight Rural (Chochołowska valley and hoppers). 1993 – the Park enters the list of UNESCO biosphere reserves

Tatra National Park includes all of the Polish Tatras, as well as small parts of Bukowiński foothills and UnderTatrian ditch. The highest point in Poland – Rysy (2499m) is located in the reserve. Because of big height differences between the hills, climate variability and unusual composition of species in flora and fauna, the Tatras are considered mountain terrain. Slovak Tatra area is about 5 times bigger than the Polish area; River catchments from springs in the Slovak part of mountains are mostly in the Black Sea, and like all of the rivers from the Polish side – in the Baltic Sea

Sacred buildings The Chapel and nunnery of Albertines on Kalatówki Albertine Monastery on Sleeping Mount Chapel on Wiktorówki Chapel of the Blessed Heart of Jesus in Jaszczurówka The Miners’ chapel (also called Zbojnicka) in Stare Kościeliska Cross on Giewont Mountain Vincent Pol Cross Cross on Czarny Staw under Rysy Iron Cross in Kużnice at the outlet of the Dworska Alley Wooden cross on the Way to Kuźnice Figure of St.Catherine in Kraszewski Gate Statue of Virgin Mary Immaculate in the wall of Zawrotowa Turnia

Figure of St.Catherine in Kraszewski Gate Vincent Pol Cross The Chapel and nunnery of Albertine on Kalatówek Figure of St.Catherine in Kraszewski Gate

Sources Order of the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform of 26 June 1939. On the recognition of state forests in the area of Forest Districts Jaworzyna and Zakopane in Cracow-Silesian District National Forests protective forests and the creation of a special organizational unit under the name "Nature Park in the Tatras" .. 1939- 07-08. [Accessed 2014-07-23]. Władysław Szafer ‘Tatra National Park’ Department of Nature Conservation PAN 1962 Zbigniew Mirek (ed.): Nature of the Tatra National Park. Kraków-Zakopane Tatra National Park, 1996. ISBN 83-85832-08-4. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatrza%C5%84ski_Park_Narodowy_(Polska)#cite_ref-6 http://tpn.pl/ http://gorskierefleksje.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html http://wdobrymkierunku.blog.pl/rysy-w-poszukiwaniu-najpiekniejszej-panoramy-tatr/

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