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
beech forest on former silver and lead workings, a bat hibernation site on the Tarnowskie Góry Ridge
Parks and nature
the oldest landscape park in Bytom, with the plane tree “Jan III Sobieski”
Parks and nature
post-mining ravines, ridges and subsidence hollows on Sucha Góra, protected as a nature and landscape complex
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 and nature in Bytom: Kachel Park, Fazaniec, the Segiet reserve and the Suchogórski Rock Labyrinth. Seven places, all free to enter.
Bytom is an industrial city, yet green space takes up a good part of it: historic landscape parks, a modernist park with viewing terraces and two nature areas on former mining hills. Entry is free everywhere.
For a long walk, choose the Franciszek Kachel Municipal Park in the centre, with 43 hectares, two ponds and a bathing site from 1934. For a shorter route among oaks, Fazaniec has two ravines. The Mickiewicz Park has four viewing terraces and the Konopnicka Park has a sledding run.
The seven places are only part of the picture: parks and nature in Silesia offers a wider comparison, while Bytom gives the overview of the whole town.
The Franciszek Kachel Municipal Park sits north-west of the town centre and is listed as a monument. It was laid out around 1840. Former mining land was added to it, and traces of an old zoo can still be seen.
Fazaniec Park is a historic landscape park of 18.1 hectares where Szombierki, Bobrek and Orzegów meet. The name recalls a pheasantry closed in 1928. Oaks dominate, and the land is cut by two ravines shaped like the letter V.
The Adam Mickiewicz Park covers 8.9 hectares in Rozbark and Łagiewniki. It was created at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s and has a modernist layout, ponds and four viewing terraces.
The Tiele-Winckler Park in Miechowice is the oldest landscape park within today's borders of Bytom, laid out before 1850 as a palace garden. It covers about 14 hectares, has monument status, and a plane tree there is a protected natural monument.
The Maria Konopnicka Park in the Karb district is a neighbourhood green space with a sledding run, modernised in 2017. It is about a kilometre from the Szombierki Heat and Power Plant and about two from the Tiele-Winckler Palace in Miechowice.
The Segiet Nature Reserve covers the summit area of Srebrna Góra (347 m above sea level) near the boundary with Tarnowskie Góry. Beech forest grows here on old mining workings. The reserve spans over ninety hectares and belongs to the Tarnowskie Góry complex inscribed by UNESCO.
The Suchogórski Rock Labyrinth occupies the top and southern slope of Sucha Góra, nearly twenty hectares in the north of the town. The area was once mined, and sinkholes, ravines, steep ridges and ledges remain after the extraction.
After a park you can look at industrial sites in Bytom, historic sites or atmospheric places. More about green space in the conurbation is in the article Nature reserves and green enclaves in the GZM cities.
None of these parks or nature areas requires a ticket.
The Segiet reserve lies on Srebrna Góra, close to Tarnowskie Góry, and protects a beech forest.
The Maria Konopnicka Park in the Karb district has a sledding run, its most characteristic feature.
The Tiele-Winckler Park in Miechowice is the oldest landscape park within today's borders of Bytom, laid out before 1850.
