Dektarzewo

Dektarzewo. The village is picturesquely situated on the Wkra river, near the forest complex, a center of traditional folk art (weaving).

Parish Church. pw. st. Catherine, Gothic, brick, not plastered, erected in 1 half. XVI w., transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Single-aisle with a separate, narrower, square presbytery. On the south elevation. sundial made in 1842 r. by Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799-1882), professor at the Agronomic Institute in Marymont (currently Marymont is located in Warsaw). from the east. i zach. stepped gables. Inside, in the side altar, there is a late Gothic sculpture of the Mother of God with the Child from the beginning of the 20th century. XVI w. Next to the church, there is a neo-Gothic brick belfry from 2 half. XIX w.

A shrine commemorating the insurgents of 1863 r.

At the cemetery of parish. wooden gate with 1917 r., made according to traditional patterns resembling well covers in Kazimierz Dolny.

Courtyard park with 1 half. XIX w. composed on the banks of the Wkra river. There are two rows of hornbeams in the park, ponds and numerous monumental trees (m.in. pedunculate oak with a circumference of the trunk 450 cm).

1 km and zach. from the village the "Dziektarzewo" nature reserve created in 1964 r. on the surface 5,35 ha in order to maintain approx. 150–a summer mixed forest partly of natural origin growing on the high slope of the Wkra river. Scots pine dominates the stand, pedunculate oak, small-leaved lime and black alder.

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