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Advent Wreaths made ​​by members - About Advent

Advent is a word in Christianity derived from the Latin word "Adventus" what is "coming" means. It is the period in which one or the coming birth of Jesus Christ and commemorates the new church year begins.
In the church you see in the Advent period the purple color appears. This is the liturgical color for penance and repentance. On the third Sunday we sometimes use the pink color.

Advent lasts four weeks and starts each year on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. The Advent season begins therefore always on a Sunday between November 27 and December 3. This year Advent starts on Sunday, November 30. Advent period always ends on December 24. The length of the Advent few days can be shorter or longer according to the date on which the fourth Sunday falls on the 24th December, but it always contains four Sundays.

November 30, 2008: 1st Sunday: Levavi
December 7, 2008: 2nd Sunday: Populus Sion
14 December 2008: 3rd Sunday: Gaudete
December 21, 2008: 4th Sunday: Rorate.
December 25, 2008: Christmas

In the Orthodox church, Advent is starting at a fixed date which is on November 15, exactly 40 days so it counts.

The Christians are not only symbolically manifest in the church, but do this by using an Advent wreath with four candles on it in their home. Every Sunday, a candle lit more candles so on the last Sunday before the 24th all four candles are burning. The candles symbolize the light of God in the world by the birth of His son Jesus. In principle, the candles are purple (except the third which is pink) and put them each in the order of weeks already passed.

The Advent wreath is the recognized symbol of Advent. The wreath is of origin with evergreen branches around and made ​​to symbolize eternal life of God. The round wreath there were four red candles in the center of the Advent wreath was placed a higher white candle as the symbol of Christ. The fifth candle was lit on Christmas Day. Using the fifth candle is white in this country disappeared. In America and Britain know they still do.

Advent Wreaths by forum members

Advent Wreaths made ​​by members of the floristry Forum

The Advent wreath is the recognized symbol of Advent. The wreath is of origin with evergreen branches around and made ​​to symbolize eternal life of God.

Advent few pieces on our forum were posted by floral floral love women:

Advent wreath with many explanations, tips and photos

Advent wreath with many explanations, tips and photos

Advent Wreath

During Advent, light in darkness is expected.

Approaching the light in the Advent symbolically visualized using the Advent wreath. An Advent wreath is usually made of pine green or other natural materials and carries four candles, one for each Sunday of Advent one. The most common is the green wreath Advent wreath with four red candles and red ribbon. These are signs of life and love, hope for light. Each Sunday of Advent is always one more candle is lit red. It symbolizes the rise of light overcoming darkness, the growth of hope ...... Just before Christmas the four burning candles.

This year the first Sunday of Advent on November 29.

Flower Arrangement Materials that you need to make the Advent wreath:

straw wreath of 30 cm diameter or more
wrap belt
green conifer, cypress, yew ,......
4 red candles
red ribbon
any penalty apples, pine apples ,........
1 spool of tying thread
hearty staples
poker wire 1.5
All steel cutter & pliers
lighter

Step by step explanation of making the Advent wreath:

Wrap the straw wreath with wrapping tape ---> pull tight and fasten with a clamp
cut the green twigs of 8 to 10 inches
Start with the tie wire to fasten around the wreath, garland 1x around the turn and bind together, then even more around the wreath tie
Green start to explain to the outside of the wreath, please use the slightly longer branches, smaller branches, use the inside
So working from the outside!
hold the sticks together / down with one hand and wrap the other hand the binding wire around 2x the green so it is secure
put in the same way another layer of green, but make sure the stitching thread below this layer disappears
work in this way all the way around the wreath

the last piece crown, where the green comes back together they work as follows:

cut the tying thread and align tightly with a clamp
Now starting from under the staple green twigs endpoint direction, so that the last piece is gone wreath
branches are all over each other nicely
make sure that all the branches show the same direction

completion of the Advent wreath as there are different possibilities

with a pretty ribbon and bow it can be hung on the door (see photo)

part with a pretty ribbon to the wreath into quarters and put a candle in every part, this for each Sunday of Advent (see photo)

4 of making ribbon bows and process it between the candles (see photo)

use instead of ribbon, a decorative rope that you put between the candle (see photo)

the further decoration of the Advent wreath is to taste / fantasy, but possibly with penalty apples, pine apples ....... (See photo)

how they put candles on the wreath
cut with an iron poker tongs two pieces of wire about 1.5, about 15 inches
Clamp a piece of wire between the iron bar poker (not with bare hands!) and heat the tip with a lighter
if it is hot, gently pushes the lever wire in the bottom of the candle, not force!

do the same with the other piece of wire poker
Poker wires are tight, then gently turn the candle on the wreath

Facts & Tips on making an Advent wreath:

Incorporate green always clockwise clockwise.
Use if necessary. hairspray to prevent loss of needles.

Wrap tape is a plastic-like tape that is used to wrap straw wreaths. (See photo)
Use "thick" green, no green conifers where one can see through!
Let ribbon and a candle "eye catcher" are.
Make sure the candles are tight, watch out for fire!

Advent wreath making (in lace)

Amenities

floral foam wreath
green: it should be small and in large quantities because in a green ring is a lot of sense.
blue cedar, Pinus, Skimmia, holly
moss
Another small green Christmas material that remains good long time.
You can also handle small flowers in but this is certainly not necessary. If your flowers, then please also eg small red roses that are beautiful dry.

decoration material:
small Christmas balls
notes sprayed
Hydrangea flowers are sprayed
ribbons, apples, cinnamon sticks, dried fruit etc.

method

Candles on the wire transfer. This is fairly easy poker thick wire you a glowing flame and then you gently push the bottom of the candle.

Insert the candles first and then you start all your green stabbing. Be sure the inside is not. After stabbing the green, you can finish with the flowers and other decorations.
To snow on your ring, you first have to spray glue and then sprinkle otherwise the snow on it.

Beware if you leave your candles burning for fire.

Advent - Light in the Darkness

An Advent wreath is usually made ​​of pine green or other natural materials and carries four candles, one for each Sunday of Advent one.
We have chosen to work with a rectangular four Advent candles holders.
Choose materials throughout the Advent period lasting. Finally, your piece on Advent Christmas is still fresh help!

Which you can make this arrangement

An elongated bowl with 2 or 3 blocks oasis
conifer green / pine green
safari
eucalyptus
St. John's wort
4 candleholders + candles
Decorative materials such as baubles, stars, ...
All flashing / sharp knife
poker thread
How to proceed

Let the floral foam absorb water.
Give the candleholders a place in the oasis.
Cut green conifer / pine green and custom work from outside to inside.
Use the long side branches and work upward with shorter branches.
Insert the floral foam blocks completely filled with greenery and nice to work around the candle holders.
Place the balls on poker thread and give it a place on the Advent piece.
Process now in the Bijma materials such as safaris, eucalyptus, deer hay, berries, ...

Tips & Facts

The traditional Advent wreath is made of pine green, green of nature that defies the winter.
The colors used are usually purple and pink.
The purple color of the candle stands for "penance and repentance," some on the third Sunday of Advent candle is lit a red rose as a sign Christmas is near. This Sunday is also called the "happy" Sunday said.
A purple ribbon through the greenery, encourages reflection.
In modern times the colors of the Advent piece to complement the colors in the home.
Use as a base for your Advent piece lots of green, because it still plays the leading role.
This piece has been eucalyptus used to the silver of the ornaments once to highlight it.
The hypericum accentuates the red of the candleholders.
Use your hypericum or take out the leaves. They are yellow and it is sloppy.
Note: use candles without candle holders make sure that they can not catch fire!

A fine Christmas time and make something beautiful :-)

Flower arrangements: creative door decoration

Flower arrangements:

door arrangement for Advent


supplies





Supplies / floral material:

1 piece of Styrofoam insulation.
Green paint.
Spruce green.
Staples.
Annealed copper wire.
A few sprigs of larch with fruit to.
Glass icicles.
Spray adhesive.
Fake snow.

method:

Cut out a framework to measure the insulation.
The outer dimensions of my frame is not bound 55 x 25 cm.
The width of the frame frame (which is bound) measures 6 cm.
Paint it in green (as a precaution if the green spruce would dehydrate)


Next make tufts spruce green and make it with the staples. Tip: make your own green wire staples so they are certainly invisible)

Start on the inside of the frame, then the top and finally the exterior. Make sure that the tufts overlap each other. (staples may not be visible)

All a little tighter by using copper wire which is rotated even more.

Once part of the winding wire bound attach a couple sprigs of larch (Larix), spruce top of the green.

The spruce green with spray adhesive spray and then sprinkle with fine powder.

Then attach the glass cones. (see finished photo)

Advent is the preparation time for the Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ in our human history
more than 2000 years ago.

Advent begins on Sunday four weeks before Christmas, so the Sunday between November 26 and December 4;
This year Advent begins November 27, 2005 accordingly.

The Sundays of our time are called first, second, third, fourth Sunday of Advent.

healing trees

Trees for the welfare of people always played an important role. A city without trees is a dead city. Trees clothe a city street, provide oxygen, breathing in carbon dioxide, provide shade. The green of the leaves and the color and smell of the flowers have a positive impact on the mood of the city dwellers.

Under old trees and bushes used to be important events took place. It was gathered, straight talk and there were religious acts. People also found that some trees had special characteristics, making clear the mind and soul have been happier. There were trees that gave comfort and paranormal contacts supported. The sacred trees were not allowed to be felled.

People discovered that different parts of a tree could make teas and drinks. Alcoholic beverages of ripe fruit that mind-expanding worked. Some of these drinks were like 'fire water', and drank only during religious rituals.

Animals that were sick eating special herbs and bark which they were better. When the people discovered this, they began to apply the same on its own. The knowledge of medicinal plants was down from generation to generation by women.

Still, in the so-called herbal plants used as natural medicines. It is believed that plants found in the rainforests would be against incurable diseases like AIDS and diabetes can be used. But yes, they have not yet discovered.

Most drugs prescribed today are synthetically manufactured. Often the active ingredients from plants chemically synthesized.

Wood amulets are still worn, not just because they like it, but because you feel protected by it feels to negative influences.



Willow Bark for pain

Of young willow baskets are woven for centuries.

But bark and wood had another function. In folk medicine the willow was known as a remedy for pain. In ancient herbal books of Hippocrates and the Greeks were Dioskurides willow preparations as a remedy for fever is described. Because willows in wet areas with mosquitoes grow, is also thought to have an agent against malaria. It helped!



The main medicinal substance was discovered in 1828. This material consists of bitter-tasting crystals, salicin. In slightly altered form as salicinezuur was a powerful antidote to pain, unfortunately, with strong side effects like nausea and stomach bleeding. Only in 1897 did Felix Hoffman, a way to make the drug more tolerable. He transformed it into azetylsalizylzuur, the ASS. That was aspirin, used to treat fever, pain and inflammation and even prevent a heart attack. Meanwhile, this substance synthetically.

Plant resources are dull pain more tolerable by the human body than synthetic. The willow is not obsolete. He is now grown in plantations for wood and bark of a natural agent to produce pain. bark salix caprea



This pain means plant suitable for all patients, who in chronic diseases, eg osteoarthritis, pain often means to swallow.

The simplest way to make Willow a drug for colds and fever, is brewing tea from willow bark. For the relief of pain is in the little tea-acting compound.



Botanical information on the willow



Yew Needles cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer. Which is an early stage to operate properly. Radiation therapy can help. Chemotherapy alone with his nasty side effects, is difficult. This may now change. At the Charité in Berlin is a new drug tested, so this treatment will have more effect with less side effects. The working substance is taxotere, derived from yew, the evergreen tree with soft, dark green needles. These needles are very toxic. This poison is now effectively used in medicine to destroy diseased cells. A cancer drug made from yew bark has long been on the market, but this new needle preparation would be superior in certain areas.



The first experiments show that the tumor taxotere clearly reduces pain. Nowadays one also finds that patients live longer thanks to this drug. The disease is slowed. Prostate cancer at an advanced stage by the yew drug is no cure. But the patients live longer with less pain. This is important for the quality of life.





Botanical information about the yew







Cinnamon bark against infections

Cinnamon is one of the oldest spices known to be of healing known and applied. He is in South and Southeast Asia, cultivated for the extraction of cinnamon bark. In Ayurvedic medicine, almost all parts of the tree used: leaves, bark, roots. The win leaves one oil. This oil warms the body and inhibit inflammation in intestinal infections and colds. From the bark and the roots will be herbal teas or salves. They are used for cramps, pain and strengthen the immune system. Sore throat can help when you chewing on a piece of cinnamon bark. The harmful bacteria in the mouth are hereby slain.

Cinnamon oil is also used for suppositories with inflammation in the vagina.

cinnamon bark

The harvest of cinnamon is a spiritual action, because it is an Ayurvedic doctor for medicinal plant that is with respect to approach. The need is three times in the hands clockwise around the tree branches before they run tube too short. The drug would work even better when a prayer.

Cinnamon for diabetes

In Western medicine is now the healing power of cinnamon scientifically tested, especially with regard to diabetes. The active ingredient in cinnamon MHCP would drop in blood sugar levels and thereby ensure the uptake of glucose into the cells increase, which looks at the effect of insulin.



For botanical information about the cinnamon tree

Fairy Tale

Reinhardswald is the most beautiful natural fairytale forest in Europe. Here in the area between the rivers Weser and Diemel Sleeping Beauty slept her centennial sleep, Rapunzel let her long braid hanging from the tower window and were giants, goblins and trolls forest unsafe.

Sababurg

Reinhardswald with its 400 square kilometers the largest contiguous forest area of ​​the German state of Hesse. The many ancient trees and inspired people to fairy tales.

The painter Theodor Rochol (1854 -1933) is due, that 92 acres of hudewoud (German Hutewald) around the Sababurg in 1907 fell under nature.



Here you walk through 600 year old oak (Huteeichen), a 220 year old oak avenue, huge beech, birch old, hornbeam and larch. It is home to red deer, boar hog, deer, hare, fox and even of lynx (wild cat). Raven, black stork, black woodpecker and wespenbuizaard are everywhere.

"Kamineiche"

Inmidden of this particular forest is a 500 year old oak tree, a treasure trove for humans and animals.

This old oak is hollow inside, but he is still alive and resists all fall and winter storms, while around him, the remains of dead conspecifics of the forest cover. On the bosbeestjes (beetles, woodlice, millipedes, etc.) is due to the building of the old trees back into the cycle of nature included. They are fertile ground for a new life. lynx



Mythology

There are many myths and legends surrounding the Reinhardswald came into circulation.

About his origin is told that the Bishop of Paderborn Reinhard and Earl have been gambling. The count was the owner of great estates and villages between Diemel and Weser. . The bishop and the count had ever won all his property kwijtt. Desperate, he begged to be allowed to harvest again. That was allowed. The smart Count Reinhard sent him out, burned their houses and planted acorns and beukennootjes.Tot so far that he could harvest the acorns, many years went by. The bishop capitulated for as much cunning, and so did the forest its name. At many places in the forest are still traces of the former arable found.

The oaks grew well, were large, old and creepy. They spoke of lost hikers who found their way using elves, or hikers in the twilight wandered through the forest and were plagued by nasty boswezens. giantess trendula



Many legends are about giantesses. One of them is about the Trendula giantess who lived on the Trendelburcht. Of her they said that they have a messy, profane woman would have been. As punishment, God sent thunder and lightning at her. The storm raged for seven days and nights the villagers giantess in her castle and fled. They hoped in this way the evil of the village to avert. Fleeing the giantess fell into a crevice that devoured her. He was filled with black-green water. People still talk about today "Grab der grüne Trendula laundry.

Trendelburg

About the huge old oak tree in the middle of the forest is being told that they would be haunted giantess Margarete.

According to a legend prevailed in the ancient walls of the 'Sababurg "a giant. His daughter Margarete fell in love with a young man who the father is not appreciated. While the lovers met, turned the raging giant both in an oak.

In the Middle Ages the old oak for a sad purpose. There were people hanging.



Tree Residents

Oak has a number of permanent residents: squirrel, pine marten and Jay.

The cavities in the trunk provide shelter and elmo litter equalities. The acorns are an important food for these animals. They also serve as a winter store and hid in the forest. Often the animals forget where they had buried their winter reserves. Then new trees grow from acorns. Jay up to seven acorns in his neck to stop.

Jay with acorn

For several years also feels the raccoon home in the hollows of old oaks, which he used to sleep.

Mushrooms, mosses and lichens grow on old wood, the beginning of decay. Despite their hollow trunks are often old oaks still viable, that each year in spring awakening from their winter. They have enough vitality to new leaves and flowers that will allow their residents to shelter in between.

The juice is from the roots against gravity sucked up into the branches so that the leaf nodes and flowers can unfold. They provide the oxygen that humans and animals need to breathe.

raccoon

Sometimes the oak leaves eaten by caterpillars. But the tree is an effective means of survival: St. Janslot, at the beginning of the summer appears.

Research shows that trees can withstand a collision rather than young. They are resistant to acid rain.



The old oak as a graveyard

In one part of the Reinhardswald is one of 15 German forest cemetery (Friedwald '), where people at the foot of an old oak or beech can be buried. This tree may together with the forester to death yourself. The urns are environmentally friendly, biodegradable material. They are buried in the forest and food for the old tree.



The legend of the giant daughters Saba, Brama and Trendula

The castles of Reinhardswald formerly lived a race of mighty giants. The most powerful was Kruko. He had his castle on a high hill between the rivers Weser and Diemel built. He had three daughters: Brama, Saba and Trendula. After his death, repented and Brama Saba to the Christian faith, while Trendula remained loyal to the old pagan gods. She pursued her sisters and tease them whenever they could. Especially Brama took it very much. She cried day and night until she was blind. Finally she left the Brucht her father and left the other side of the Weser build a castle, called "Bram Castle" was. Saba had a castle in the Reinhardswald build the 'Sababurg. At night when thick fog hid the forest and river, went to Saba for her blind step sister to visit. She stayed with her until the sun appeared above the Reinhardswald. Trendula found this out and decided to kill Saba.

One morning when Sheba walked back to her castle, she was attacked and strangled by Trendula. The place where this would have happened, even today called "Mordkammer. As punishment she was struck by lightning. This lightning was so strong that he and funnel of about 450 m in size would have beaten the forest floor, the water green giantess Trendula grave.

Forests in Germany

Formerly Central Europe for the most part covered with dense deciduous forests. Beech, oak and lime trees played an important role. They were called virgin forests, forests with little human intervention, at most, some for daily use to get (huts and fire), to find mushrooms, berries and gather beechnuts and wild beasts to hunt. For the rest of the forest could live and die without human intervention. In these forests grew giant trees of 50 m and live animals such as bison, bears, foxes, wild cats and wolves that they feared. The wolf in fairy puts this testimony. The forest was especially helpful and scary. There lived forest spirits, trolls, witches and robbers who were hiding in dense undergrowth to regularly raid villages and robbing.

Remnants of these forests are in Germany, Poland, England, Belarus, Russia, Romania and Finland found. They are now protected National Parks that are cherished. One is the



Hainich National Park

Hainich located in the west of Thuringia (7610 ha) in the largest contiguous area of ​​deciduous trees BRD (16,000 ha).

Because the forest in part during the last 50 years had prohibited military area, the vegetation here was able to develop undisturbed. It is a mixed forest of beech, ash, elsbessen, maple, linden, etc. It is a loofboomparadijs.Twee once a year you can enjoy the magnificent colors of the forest. The "Indian summer" begins in October and the wood turns yellow, orange, red, gold and rust.

The color miracle takes place in the spring off. Among the still bare branches of beech trees bloom in February all the pink daphne (Daphne mezereum) and White Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum), in March the blue delivery flower (Hepatica Transylvanian electronics), the yellow star (Gagea pratensis), white wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) and purple spring flower helmet (Corydalis solida), or even bird-on-the-stool called. In April follow the yellow celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) and bosviooltjes violet (Viola reichenbachiana). May bloom the white woodruff (Gallium odoratum), lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) and wild garlic (Allium ursinum). Then walk to the beech leaves, and it gets dark in the woods.

Typical of the ecosystems of beech forests, the herb-rich vegetation. So far, 726 different species have been discovered, especially on fertile limestone soils as Hainich National Park. In the beech forests on acidic, nutrient-poor soils such as the Netherlands and the Eifel you will find a lot less.



Another special feature is that the Hainich forest wildcat still alive. Wildcats are larger and stronger than house cats. Their fur is black gray to yellowish gray and striated. The rough tail has dark rings and black at the end. Before the Romans the Nubian cat over the Alps to central Europe brought linen wildcats through the wilds of Germania. For centuries they were persecuted and hunted so few animals could survive. Approximately 20 to 30 wildcats living in Hainich, always looking for mice, birds, frogs, fish and rabbits. wildcat

boshelmbloem ever flower





The forest is also a haven for bats. 12 types of sailing at night through the forest, including two rare color bat. In addition, 165 bird species live here, including the rare black stork and many species of woodpecker.

two color bat



Philosophy of the forest:

"In a forest where old and dying trees are filled with beetles and larvae, as we have it right."



A half-jungle, the remainder



National Park Kellerbos

In the Rhenish Slate Mountains to the Edersee in Hesse, where ancient oaks and beeches grow. It is said that some of those troll-like tree giants dwarves, goblins and elves would manage mountains. Here is a Mediterranean climate, so your plants and undergrowth which can only be found in the Mediterranean home as the White Engbloem (Vincetoxicum hirundinaria), paint broom (Genista tinctoria) and paint chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria). purple engbloem



paint paint chamomile broom









The beech is also "Mother of the bos'genoemd. It is a deciduous tree that is most common in Germany. The beech up to 50 m high and 300 years old. Unlike other trees, they grow into old age even further. She has reached the peak of her life when she was 140 years old.



The older trees are, the more valuable they are to the ecosystem of the forest. They offer a home for such woodpeckers, owls and pigeons. The dead wood of beech is fertile ground for mosses, lichens, fungi, bosinsecten, forest plants and saplings.

Black Stork



The forest varies in appearance, age structure and species composition of the highly cultuurbos. It is like Kellerbos forest preserved as it formerly served as a hunting ground for kings Waldecker. It was like a forest ecosystem with very old trees develop. Many Kellerwald-beech grew all the time of Napoleon. 37% of the beech trees are older than 140 years.

Bialowieza primeval forest

What is a forest?

A forest is not always a tropical rainforest. In Europe and Canada, there are remnants of so-called boreal forests where it can be very cold.

Forests are forests that old man was left alone. They are complex and fragile ecosystems. Logging threatens their existence worldwide.



Bialowieza National Park

One of the last great ancient forests of the European lowlands, the Bialowieza National Park in eastern Poland and western Belarus. On the Polish side, the forest is 10,000 ha, the Belarusian side 77 000 ha. Together, the two areas 87 607 ha. It is Europe's largest forest, but a human activity which is least affected. In 1932 the reserve status Bialowieza National Park. For Poland, the Bialowieski Narodowy. In 1947, this nature reserve by UNESCO recognized as one of the four Polish Biosphere Reserves.

Bialowieza National Park entrance



Hunting Area of ​​Polish kings

The Bialowieza primeval forest has been little affected since the Polish kings and Russian zaren here had their hunting grounds. Most trees were preserved, but wolves and Wisents (European bison) were exterminated.



Personal impression

I visited the Bialowieza primeval beginning in June 2005. As the winter in Poland what longer than in the Netherlands, was the leaf of deciduous trees such as linden and hornbeam are spring green. In this forest grow amazingly thick and tall trees (up to 50 m). The oldest oaks are over 400 years old. Bielowieza is a mixed forest with linden, elm, oak, ash, willow, hornbeam, rowan, spruce and fir. There is a 300 years old lime tree in winter 46 m high with a diameter at breast height of 1.70 m.

A shrub willow that we only know is a mighty tree 30 m high. Under her bark contains a substance we know as aspirin. Everywhere in the wood of dead trees, the typesetter artistic patterns drawn. Woodpeckers have pine cones in the crevices of oak bark to quietly clipped the seeds out to pick. Trees that are old or sick are allowed to bring their bare branches remain among the living trees, after a while to fall or break off. The trees are snapped like natural sculptures among the forest plants that cover the ground. Storm or heavy snow are the cause of uprooted trees and broken branches. It is not 'cleared'. It takes 70 years before a fallen oak tree in the soil is gone. Will serve as housing and food for forest animals and plants. Colourful fungi growing on the bark, but the rare bosklaverzuring, ferns and mosses. Young ash trees growing on decaying logs of choice.

I photographed the inside of a dead oak tree trunk hollowed out by so many bosinsecten was that only the outer layer of the bark was left.





Significance of ancient forests for culture, art and history

Ancient forests are the place to frightening tales, legends in which heroes play an important role for fairy tales, robbers, witches and wolf children. According to tradition, the Jagiellonian oak 600 years old. She was named after King Jagiello who hunted in the 15th century on aurochs, bison, bears and tarpanpaarden. These wild horses he caught for his cavalry. Under an oak tree would have saved his tent to prepare for battles. He has his time in Poland flourished charged. This ancient forest giant in 1974 during an autumn storm crashed. He had a hollow trunk. Jagiellonian Oak



Animals in the jungle

The fauna of this unspoilt forest is particularly rich and includes approximately 12,000 species, most of which belong to the invertebrates. Many species are protected. Nesting in the Park about 120 species of birds, 7 species from the family of reptiles and 11 amphibians.

Symbol of the primeval forest, the bison, which I unfortunately did not see, because he was in the deeper part of the forest retreat commits. The wild bison were already extinct in 1919 and were reintroduced in 1929. The free-living herd currently includes in the Polish part of the forest about 250 animals.

54 mammal species live in Bielawieza: wolves, lynx, beavers, moose and bison.

wizente



Scientific research

Bielowieza is a known scientific center. Here, representatives of the Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw and the forestry research institute with bosdeskundigen from around the world. They have specialized in studies of natural forest ecosystems. tree fungus

Visit to the jungle

The forest can only be accessed with a guide. You walk along a path of 4 km length. It is not permitted to deviate from this path. Everything here protected and can not be trampled by human feet.

From May we recommend against the swarms of mosquitoes in the forest protection.