Nowadays, the chapel is sporadically used by people, mainly during the St Anthony’s Day indulgence in the middle of June. For most of the year, the empty chapel is quiet and silent.
Location on a small clearing in the forest makes the conditions for the lesser horseshoe bats even better. One of the very few Lower Silesian colonies of these bats feed in the surrounding forest and nearby rocks and a quarry. No wonder that the numbers of horseshoes steadily grow and already 80 females stay under the chapel’s roof in Summer.
The LIFE Podkowiec+ project just started replacement of the damaged roof, thus assuring suitable conditions for the bats for several decades.
Several trees have been planted near the chapel, to ease up bat access to the wood. It is very important for the lesser horseshoe bats, which rarely range more than 1,5 m from the trees or bushes.
This is already third object renovated in the Lower Silesia in the project, after the Lime Kiln in Stara Morawa and the church in Wleń, hosting one of the biggest roosts of the greater mouse-eared bat in Poland.
