Parks and nature
a 43-hectare park from 1840 that was home to the first zoo in Upper Silesia
Parks and nature
an 18-hectare park in two ravines, a former pheasantry, with oaks and the Karol Godula trail
Parks and nature
the oldest landscape park in Bytom, with the plane tree “Jan III Sobieski”
Parks and nature
a modernist park from the early 1930s with viewing terraces, ponds and a footbridge
Parks and nature
neighbourhood park in Bytom's Karb with a sledging run, renovated in 2017
Parks in Bytom: five green spaces, from Kachel Park and Fazaniec to Mickiewicz Park, Tiele-Winckler Park and Konopnicka Park with its sledge run.
Bytom is an industrial city, yet it keeps several large, old parks with free entry. They differ in size, layout and former purpose: some grew out of private gardens, others on former mining land. Parks from across the voivodeship are gathered under parks in Silesia, while museums, theatres and monuments of the city sit on the Bytom page.
The largest is Franciszek Kachel Park in the city centre, covering 43 ha. It was laid out around 1840 and is protected today by a listing in the register of monuments.
Walking through, you pass two ponds, a former swimming spot laid out in 1934 and remains of the zoo that once operated here. Hubert von Tiele-Winckler gave the land to the city, and former mining land of the Teresa calamine mine was attached to it. The park borders Wrocławska and Olimpijska streets in the north-western corner of the centre.
In Fazaniec Park: 18.1 ha between Szombierki, Bobrek and Orzegów. Mostly oaks grow here, and the relief is shaped by two ravines arranged like the letter V.
The name comes from a pheasant farm that ran until 1928 next to the palace in Szombierki. A trail named after Karol Godula crosses the park. After your walk, read about the Szombierki power station, which stands in the same area.
Adam Mickiewicz Park in Rozbark and Łagiewniki has four viewing terraces. The oldest landscape park within today's city limits is Tiele-Winckler Park in Miechowice.
Mickiewicz Park takes up 8.9 ha and was laid out around the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. The plan is modernist, there are ponds, and before the renaming it appeared as Goethe Park. Tiele-Winckler Park, formerly the People's Park, spans about 14 ha beside the surviving palace outbuilding. A plane tree there is a natural monument.
To Maria Konopnicka Park, neighbourhood greenery in Karb, closed in by Konstytucji and Świętej Elżbiety streets. Its best-known feature is a sledge run, and the grounds were modernised in 2017.
It is neighbourhood greenery that suits a short outing. The Szombierki power station is about a kilometre away, and the Tiele-Winckler Palace in Miechowice about two.
The register covers Kachel Park and Tiele-Winckler Park. Mickiewicz Park appears in the municipal record of monuments.
No, all five parks are free to enter.
In Maria Konopnicka Park in the Karb district. It is the most distinctive feature of the grounds.
From a pheasant farm that operated on the site until 1928, because the neo-Renaissance palace in Szombierki had no room for its own park.
