The best gravel rides around Ostrowicko

wooden bridge over the stream to Lake Lubniewsko

This is one of the official bike trails, marked in blue. Unfortunately, from time to time, forests are cut down along the trail. They are associated with thoughtless devastation by running over the trail with heavy tractors with semi-trailers carrying cut trees. Such deep ruts with mud are created that one does not want to ride on such a trail - shame. In addition, branches from cut trees are sawn off in an equally thoughtless way in the middle of the trail. Not somewhere nearby, but on the road - this is total ignorance. This causes splinters of various sizes and sharp wooden cuttings to be scattered on the trail, which pose a threat to bicycle tires - they can be easily punctured. In my opinion, it is a scandal that official bike trails, which the Sulęcin commune and district were once proud of, are treated in this way. This does not only apply to this particular trail, but unfortunately to most in the region. These are the consequences of thoughtlessness on the part of the local forest management. I don't think that the fact of cutting down the forest would obviously generate devastation of the entire area, including tourist trails, and actually pose a threat to tourists. And I am convinced that this would not happen if those responsible for this procedure thought a little - at least once.

Neo-Romanesque church from 1773. It has rich furnishings, which include: an altar from the first half of the 17th century (contains elements of an older Gothic one from the 15th century – a pentaptych); a wooden crucifix (from around the mid-19th century); a chest mensa, made of brick; a wooden, hexagonal baptismal font from the end of the 18th century (topped with a tin baptismal bowl from 1681) and a bronze bell from the 19th century. Currently, it is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Anthony.

The House of the Saint John is the building with the oldest history in the city. The first mention of it dates back to 1351. The current building is much younger. It was built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries on the foundations of an earlier half-timbered building. After the secularization of the Saint John order in 1810, the building passed into state hands. It served residential purposes, and after 1945 it housed municipal apartments. In 1978, the building was abandoned and fell into ruin. In 2008, the building underwent a major renovation, which significantly changed its appearance. Currently, it houses the Centre for Polish-German Cooperation.

A preserved fragment of the defensive walls of Sulęcin. The construction of the city's fortifications began in 1491. The 1,400-meter-long wall was made of field stones and bricks. There used to be two gates: from the south, you could enter through the Ostrowska Gate, while from the north through the Mill Gate. Only two fragments of the city walls with a total length of about 200 meters have survived to this day.

The old town square in Sulęcin. The town hall is missing, as it was burned by the Russians at the end of the war and then dismantled to take the bricks to Warsaw. The Fountain of Good Neighbourhood now stands on the site of the town hall.

In the 1990s, a Polish-German agreement on cooperation between border municipalities was signed in Sulęcin. As part of the efforts to achieve reconciliation, the Fountain of Good Neighbourhood was created in the market square in Sulęcin. It was built with the support of the Phare fund and the residents of Beeskow, and the author of the figures is the Gorzów sculptor Zofia Bilińska.

The church from the 14th century was built by the Templars. Initially a modest single-nave temple building made of granite cubes, covered with a cross vault, it was expanded many times over the following centuries. In the 15th century, a tower was added on the western side of the nave. It gained its final form in the years 1899-1900. At the end of the war, the church was burned down. Renovations carried out at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s gave the church its current appearance.