Lomna

1 km to the north. east. Lomna. The village mentioned in 1155 r. as Łomny Wielkie – then the property of the regular canons from Czerwińska. From 1798 r. property of Antoni Trębicki, whose three sons fought in the Russian ranks against the November Uprising (one of them – Stanislaus – as a general he died during the "November night").

Parish Church. pw. st. Nicholas erected in 1870-72 wg proj. Henryk Marconi, brick and plastered, single-nave, with a separate presbytery, late Classicist. Inside, paintings depicting St.. st. Casimir, Petronella and Hieronymus – copies of Italian paintings from the 17th century.

Tomb chapel of the Trębicki family 2 Then. XIX w., located in the former cemetery. Brick and plastered, classicist. A devastated landscape park established in the 19th century. surrounding the Trębicki manor house, demolished after World War II.

It has been operating in Łomna-Las since 1972 r. research station of the Institute of Zoology. There are research laboratories and a warehouse in two buildings, in which it is stored, unfortunately, One of the richest zoological museum collections in Central Europe, generally inaccessible to visitors. Collected approx. 6 million copies of the crafted animals, mostly insects (ok. 5 min), as well as birds (ok. 40 thousand). The famous collections of animals taken over by the facility are stored, m.in. collection of beetles collected in the interwar period by Tetenbaum, two collections of mollusks (Lubomirski and Slósarski), collection of arachnids (Kulczycki). Poland is one of the few countries in Europe, which does not have a national natural history museum. Before World War II, there was an intention to establish such an institution, and its seat was designed by Eng. arch. Marian Spychalski – later Marshal of Poland and chairman of the State Council.

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