Uchorowo

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Uchorowo is a village in Gmina Murowana Goślina, Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in western Poland. It is about 10 km north-west of the town of Murowana Goślina, on the road to Oborniki. First mention in written records: 1388. Population: c. 500. It has a 19th-century manor house (last restored 1987), and a neo-Gothic chapel dating from 1890. The village formerly had a parish church and a primary school.

About 3 km south-west of Uchorowo, past the hamlet of Szymankowo, is the Śnieżycowy Jar nature reserve, founded in 1975 and now covering 9 ha. It is most notable for the large numbers of spring snowflakes (Leucoium vernum) which bloom in late February and early March. This is one of the few places where this flower is found in lowland Poland. It is thought to have been brought here by human intervention in the 19th century.

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• Local authority website
• Murowana Goślina i okolice, N. Kulse, Z. Wojczak (local publication)
• Article on nature reserve (in Polish)
  
  

v • d • e Gmina Murowana Goślina Town and seat: Murowana Goślina Villages: Białęgi • Białężyn • Boduszewo • Długa Goślina • Głębocko • Głęboczek • Kamińsko • Łopuchówko • Łopuchowo • Łoskoń Stary • Mściszewo • Nieszawa • Pławno • Przebędowo • Raduszyn • Rakownia • Starczanowo • Trojanowo • Uchorowo • Wojnówko • Wojnowo • Zielonka Rivers: Trojanka (Goślinka) • Warta • See also: Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park • GMINA MAP

Coordinates: 52°39′N 16°57′E / 52.65, 16.95