Somewhere in our garden there is a village treasure hidden. It must be so, because when we were renovating and digging the foundations for the new house, we found nothing. And when we moved here several years ago, the inhabitants of the village would come and see if the property of the German teacher who owned this land was no longer in our hands. The treasure even includes a motorcycle and a car! It must have been hidden really deep and well, because there's still no trace. However, we have other treasures in our Lower Silesian habitat: contemporary art on the walls, a wealth of books in the library and trees in the orchard bending under the weight of apples, pears and plums.
In a village under the protection of the conservator of monuments, where you go by jumping on post-German cobblestones, we create a place where vacationers of all ages and with any number of legs are welcome. The kids run for six hours between the playground and the orchard, the adults play board games in the spacious dining room, the dogs roll around in the grass recklessly, and everyone enjoys the idyllic surroundings of the surrounding meadows and hills. We have a blissful, cheerful and family here. We have tips on where to buy ceramics and whose art studio to visit, a colorful arboretum an apple's throw away and ideas on how to spend time in an interesting way in the least populated village in the entire commune. Come meet us.
You will find such a mix here: an old, post-German house, which we bought years ago as our escape from civilization, and a new house, which we added to it, resembling our wooden barn. When we settled in Błotnica for good and started to host guests here, it turned out that one house is not enough for everyone to enjoy this place with us. And the place is idyllic: located in a lush garden of 0.5 ha, next to a 1-hectare orchard where we grow organic apples, pears, plums and cherries.
We have this:
– a post-German, atmospheric house is connected to a new house in a modern style,
– we live in the old house downstairs, we have a separate entrance,
– on the first floor there are 2 rooms in a rustic style: Wooden and Brick, next to it there is a common space with a bookcase, armchairs, a fireplace, a play area for children and a kitchenette for these 2 rooms,
- we go through the corridor and on the first floor in the new part of the house there are also 2 rooms: Steel and Ceramic,
– and downstairs there is a large dining and recreation room, where you can meet for evenings and play board games, watch art and spend time together, here is the entrance directly to the terrace and the garden
We are a place where families with kids like to come. During the season, it can be noisy here, but if you are looking for peace, in spring and autumn you will find it with us. However, if you care about your own company, you can rent the whole house for yourself, i.e. all 4 rooms.
Life here revolves around art - especially contemporary art, which Maciek collects, literature (use our rich library!) and ubiquitous nature. And also people! Groups of friends and families like to come to us, we have excellent conditions here to spend time together and a lot of suggestions for adults and kids who are curious about the world.
Maciek is responsible for the kitchen and he will prepare breakfasts and lunches that you can buy. The products we use are local and come from nearby farms, we also have our own fruit, jams and juices. Maciek's cuisine is not fifarafa: healthy, hearty and homemade food is cooked here. So that children like it too. Parents especially appreciate our cream soups, because they give endless possibilities of hiding green vegetables in them, which no child of several years will know about.
For breakfast, we always serve something hot and extras: vegetables, cheeses, homely meats, vegan spreads. If you are vegan, you will have breakfast without any problems. For dinner, please let us know in advance that you would like to eat vegetarian. We can arrange dinners from day to day, so it's easy for us. And we can serve you soup first and the second at a different time.
You can also prepare your own meals with us. On the first floor in the older house there is a kitchenette available for guests of both rooms there (it is equipped rather basicly, so you can prepare simple dishes there, such as sandwiches and salads), and the rooms in the new part have their own, well-equipped kitchenettes - with an induction cooker, kettle and small fridge, pots and pans.
The Niemczańsko-Strzelińskie Hills are not a place where a staggering number of points off the checklist awaits you, and that's why we love this area. However, we have not yet heard that anyone was bored with us. There are such Guests who do not want to leave us, because we have everything here to rest idyllically and indulge in pleasures:
– a large library with a good selection of literature: from Nobel Prize winners, through detective stories, to youth and children's literature,
– artistic atmosphere: you can talk to Maciek about art, because he is an art historian, and many people related to art live in our neighborhood, with whom we like each other: we will be happy to tell you where to go for ceramic workshops, whose studio to visit and from whom to buy a good image,
– a lot of board games that can be played in our dining room,
– many corners in the garden to sit: on sunbeds, on hammocks, at tables – just hide away and catch up with books or watch the clouds,
– orchard, and in it: apples, plums, pears, cherries, peaches, which we encourage you to savor.
– a place for a bonfire with a view of an old, post-German pear tree,
– evening concerts of frogs and crickets.
Our neighborhood is very quiet, and Błotnica is a village where you have to come specially, because the road ends here. And people come here for: going for walks in the fields and forests, bicycle trips around the area or trips to the swimming pool on warm days. We will be happy to tell you everything and tell you about our favorite places in the vicinity.
We recommend such smaller and larger trips as:
– a walk from Błotnica up the gorge with a view of the panorama of Ruszkowice and the Sowie Mountains,
– a trip to the arboretum in Wojsławice – book even a few hours for a walk! the botanical garden stretches over a large area and stuns with colorful views of trees and flowers; it has a cherry orchard, several ponds, a collection of rocks and minerals and you can even have lunch or ice cream there,
– a ride to the Ślężański Landscape Park: climbing Ślęża, seeing cult sculptures from the times of the Lusatian culture, i.e. from 700-400 BC, or a nature reserve near the village near the village of Sulistrowiczki,
– visiting the castles: Książ with its richly decorated rooms, a garden that could be a scenery for a costume film and mysterious underground tunnels drilled during World War II. and Grodno, a castle on a hill in the "Góra Choiny" reserve, where a treasure was supposedly hidden once: works of art hidden from the approaching Soviet front,
– hiking in the Owl Mountains: climbing the Wielka Sowa, their highest peak with an over 100-year-old observation tower, or visiting the 18th-century Srebrna Góra Fortress, one of the largest mountain strongholds in Europe.
What’s there for children?
We are one of those places where families with plenty of children come as soon as the slogan: holidays appears. Happy with life, kids run from tree to tree here, ride a bike along a country road and, saved, run for soup and dessert, only to return to urgent matters. We have a playground, a trampoline, a lot of games and a safe space of the garden and orchard - so that you can drink hot coffee at a table in the garden more than once. If your youngest like horses, there are two stud farms in the area. And below, we have listed for you a list of places where you can go on a trip with your offspring: to various workshops, to the arboretum, to search for gold or to explore the secrets of Lower Silesia.
What’s there for employees?
If you want to work from here, the internet is fine (it's enough for our needs), but it can be moody. It will allow you to send an e-mail, it may be different with calls.
