Artworks exhibited in the Lavender House Visitor Centre, Tihany

The Muskauer Faltenbogen/Łuk Mużakowa Geopark invited Polish, German, Hungarian and Czech students from three geoparks for a week in the summer of 2014 to the creative camp „Art Meets Geology”.

The artworks were created with the help of a local potter, glass grinder, painter and wood-carver, using local materials. The students’ creations are exhibited in the workshop room of the Lavender House Visitor Centre until 30. December 2014.

The Muskauer Faltenbogen/Łuk Mużakowa Geopark is located on the border of Germany and Poland. During the trips the students got acquainted with the geological history and the sites related to geology in the Geopark. They also learned a lot about the typical materials that potters, glass grinders, wood carvers and stone carvers use. 

Seven students and their teacher from one of the Partners of Bakony–Balaton Geopark, the Fehérlófia Steiner School in Nemesvámos participated in the international camp. A geotourism officer from the Bakony–Balaton Geopark organisation also travelled with them and made a short presentation on the geological heritage and activities of the Bakony–Balaton Geopark. The Polish participant school is planning to visit the Hungarian Geopark next year.

Muskauer Faltenbogen/Łuk Mużakowa Geopark

is recognised as one of the most scenic push moraines in Middle Europe. Its characteristic horseshoe shape was formed some 340,000 years ago as the "Muskauer glacier" advanced from the thick inland ice sheet which covered half of Europe at that time. The load from the ice cover caused subsoil compaction down to a depth of about 300 metres while deforming the horizontal successions of sand, gravel, clay and lignite beds. The unconsolidated rock masses in front of the glacier piled up to form a terminal moraine of some 150 m above today's ground level. The inland ice of the more recent glacial periods flattened the moraine down to today's level, but not entirely, as can be seen from “High Hill” (Hoher Berg) near Döbern (183 m) or the so-called “Dragon Hills” (Drachenberge) near Krauschwitz (163 m).

The Muskau Arch, although initially shaped long time ago, has remained an ever changing landscape until this very day. Today, the Muskau Arch is a picturesque cultural and post-mining landscape full of many and varied lakes, and a natural area of forests exhibiting significant ecological diversity. This beautiful recreational landscape is crossed by a network of theme-based hiking and biking trails.