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The monument of the potato

Pomnik ziemniaka

The village Biesiekierz located not far from Koszalin, since the sixteenth century was part of the assets of Holken family, whose head office was located in a nearby Nosow. Then, until the nineteenth century, the village changed owners several times. In the village there is a church dedicated to Christ the King from the fourteenth century. Inside the church there is the early altar, baptismal font from the seventeenth century, a part of the altarpiece of the date of restoration (1932), two sculptures of baroque and Gothic bell. In Biesiekierz it is located a palace and park from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, whose area is 2.5 hectares. Biesiekierz oak alley, numbering 9 of trees, is a monument of nature. Near the palace of the 80s of the twentieth century is a potato monument with legs measuring 9 meters, where she bulb is 3.95 meters. Municipal Office Biesiekierz shows that this is probably the biggest in the world potato monument. It was created in honor of the new varieties of this plant, which was bred in a nearby potato farm in Biesiekierz. The originator of the whole project was the director of the Plant Breeding Station Mariusz Roeder. Its author is Wieslaw Adamski. Work on the monument lasted nearly a year, while its official unveiling took place in 1983.

museums and monumentsvillages and rural areasWest Pomeranian, PolandBiesiekierz, West Pomeranian, Poland