A visit to the stork metropolis Klopot

From the border bridge in Słubice along the 1. Maja road in the direction of Krosno Odrzańskie on the embankment you will reach the “Poland Bazar”. A lot is offered and bought here, from groceries to home furnishings. On the way to Świecko, leave the bazaar on the left and drive a short distance on national road No. 29 to come to Powstańców Wielkopolskich, which goes off on the right. The rest of the route corresponds to the “Odra-Nysa” cycle path on the Polish bank of the Oder. The path now leads between the alluvial forest on the Oder and later under the motorway bridge. The memorial for the victims of the Nazi labor camp "Oderblick" can be seen not far from the route.

On the way to the stork metropolis, there are places like the paper mill founded in Rybocice in the 16th century. Also known is the area around Kunowice (Kunersdorf), where the Prussians suffered a painful defeat during the Seven Years' War (1756-63) under the leadership of Frederick the Great.

Driving through Urad past the pumping station, the path leads to Rybojedzko and then on to Kłopot past the ruins of a bridge that used to connect the banks of the Oder. Today only the ruins can be admired, to which no signposted path leads. Not far from the bridge in Kłopot, every year from the end of March to the middle of August, many pairs of storks raise their young. The birds breed on almost every roof in the village. The village would certainly not have become the stork metropolis in western Poland had it not been for the belief that lightning would not strike the house with the stork's nest and the wish for a good year for the residents of the house where the first stork comes in the year .