A water reserve created in 2004, covering 63.79 ha, protecting Lake Koskowickie with its breeding waterfowl and wetland birds.
The Koskowickie Lake nature reserve is a water reserve in Legnica County, in the municipality of Legnickie Pole, covering Lake Koskowickie and its shores.
The reserve was created in 2004 to preserve a natural body of water together with a breeding population of waterfowl and wetland birds, protected fish species, a large reed community, and a stand of marsh fern and lakeshore bulrush. The protected area covers 63.79 hectares, and its buffer zone covers 22.27 hectares along the southern shores of the lake.
Lake Koskowickie is a shallow, eutrophic body of water, part of the Legnica Lake District, a group of the oldest post-glacial lakes in Poland and the only lake district in Silesia. Most of the reserve is taken up by open water, and the reed community, including one of the largest reed beds in Lower Silesia, covers more than 10 percent of the protected area. The reserve contains 7 natural monuments among its trees.
The lake's fish fauna numbers around 20 species, including the protected European bitterling and weatherfish. Among the breeding birds are around 30 mostly protected species, including the bittern, little crake and moustached warbler, all rare in Silesia.
The reserve is heavily used for recreation, contributing to the destruction of shoreline vegetation and littering of the banks. Other threats include uncontrolled fishing pressure, motor vehicle traffic on the shore, the building of jetties, and pollution flowing in from farmland in the lake's catchment area.
A few kilometres away lies Legnica, with Piast Castle and the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, while closer to the reserve, in Legnickie Pole, is the Museum of the Battle of Legnica.
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