| Ostromecko | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kuyavian-Pomeranian |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bydgoszcz |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Dąbrowa Chełmińska |
| Coordinates: | 53.15°N 31°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Population Total: | 880 |
| Registration Plate: | CBY |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Primary airport |
| Blank Info Sec2: | Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Voivodeship roads |
| Established Title: | granting city rights |
| Established Title1: | deprivation of city rights |
| Established Date1: | 5 august 1772 |
| Established Date: | 25 august 1750 |
Ostromecko is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbrowa Chełmińska, within Bydgoszcz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.[1] It lies 7km (04miles) south-west of Dąbrowa Chełmińska, 150NaN0 east of Bydgoszcz, and 300NaN0 north-west of Toruń.
See main article: Palaces and park ensemble in Ostromecko. During the German occupation of Poland (World War II), Ostromecko was one of the sites of executions of Poles, carried out by the Germans in 1939 as part of the Intelligenzaktion.[2]
The landmark of Ostromecko is the palaces and park ensemble, which contains the Andrzej Szwalbe Collection of Historical Pianos, one of two largest such collections in Poland. There is also the Baroque Saint Nicholas church and the Marian Forest nature reserve.
The Marian Forest Nature Reserve - a forest reserve with an area of 31.8 hectares, located in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, is located in the Toruń Forest District, on the northern edge of the village of Ostromecko.
It is one of the earliest established and next nature reserves.
The beginnings of landscape protection of today's reserve date back to the 19th century. The forested slope of the Vistula Valley was called the Maria Park, from the name of Marta Matilda Maria Alvensleben-Schönborn (1854-1915) - heir to the estate of Ostromecko and the wife of Albrecht von Alvensleben (1840-1928). A road was made on its area with bridges, along which birchwood benches were set.
The reserve was created to protect diverse forest complexes overgrowing steep canyons and the Vistula valley steam: from the ash-alder forest through the subcontinental forest, fertile low beech forest to mixed continental forest. This area also has high landscape values, due to the large denivelation of the terrain, spring and groundwater exudates.