A small nature reserve for inanimate nature in the Kaczawa Foothills with a basalt rock rose and rock-crevice vegetation.
Wilcza Góra Nature Reserve protects a fragment of the Kaczawa Foothills covering 1.6267 hectares, near the village of Wilków in Złotoryja County. The reserve was established in 1959 as an area protecting inanimate nature.
The reserve's main geological feature is a basalt rock rose: cracked, arch-bent basalt columns arranged in a pentagonal shape. The rest of the hill is made up of columns set vertically or at an angle, in places with irregularly jointed rock.
In the weathering cracks of the basalt grow common polypody and spleenworts (rustyback, wall-rue and northern spleenwort), as well as bracken, male fern, lady fern, brittle bladder fern and Robert's fern. The undergrowth has developed thickets of hazel, blackthorn, wild guelder rose, common spindle, dog rose, gooseberry, Silesian and sun-loving bramble, common barberry, and Silesian and goat willow.
The reserve area is under active protection. In its immediate vicinity is a disused quarry, whose site was reclaimed after basalt extraction by the Colas company ended and handed over to the municipality.
A few kilometres away, in Złotoryja, you can see the Gold Museum and the Aurelia Gold Mine. For children, at a similar distance, lies the Meander Rope Park.
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