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Located west of the centre of Kielce the reserve covers most of the steep Karczówka hill (335 m above sea level) built of Middle and Upper Devonian limestones.
In their fractures, there are galena veins (lead ore) as well as calcites and barites. When walking along the red trail through the reserve, you can cross the former mining galleries the so-called gaps, i.e., elongated cavities carved in the rock, from which lead ores were obtained in the 16th-18th centuries. A fragment of over 180-year-old pine stands surrounding the post-Bernardine monastery (now Pallottine priests) rising on the top of the hill is protected in the reserve.
This monument of late Renaissancen and Baroque art together with the Church of St. Karol Boromeusz was founded in the years 1624-1631 by bishop Marcin Szyszkowski. In the treasury of the monastery the relics of the patron of the church are kept and in the temple itself the black figure of St. Barbara, the patron saint of miners, made of a nugget of galena. The renovated church tower offers an amazing view of the surrounding area.
Monastery of Karczówka Post-Bernardine Monastery complex from the XVII century founded by bishop Marcin Szyszkowski. It is situated on the Karczówka hill, in the heart of a pine forest covered landscape reserve. Noteworthy is also the chapel of Saint Barbara with an interesting baroque sculpture of the miners patroness made in 1646 from a block of galena – lead ore.
