Bierzwnik : planting a three-year-old oak tree

Bierzwnik

The Association of Post-Cistercian Heritage Protection in Bierzwnik is involved into organisation of the annual festival „3 days on the Cistercian Route” as well as in the 5th International Cloister Goods Fair – the events to take place on 25th-27th July 2014. Everybody is welcome! Meanwhile, on 25th June, the Association is participating a celebration of planting a three-year-old oak tree which has been grown from an acorn of the three-hundred-year-old oak “Cysters” (Cistercian) from the park surrounding a former abbey in Rudy in Slask (Silesia). It has been an initiative of the Association of Cistercian Communes in Poland, the organisation established by several communes, including the one in Bierzwnik. The oaks, planted on the same day, at the same time, in all associated communes, are supposed to remind future generations of cultural heritage – its meaning and a need of its protection. Barbara Stolpiak, Teresa Swiercz; The Association of Post-Cistercian Heritage Protection in Bierzwnik ; e-mail: stolbar@amu.edu.pl