Repty Park

Repty Park, in Repty, now part of Tarnowskie Góry, is a former Henckel von Donnersmarck game park transformed at the end of the 19th century into a landscape park. It covers about 200 ha and has been entered in the heritage register since 1966.

From game park to park

The area was covered with beech and oak forest as early as the Middle Ages. In 1824 the Repty estate was bought by Count Karl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck, who in the 1840s established a game park here with a small hunting castle, surrounded by a limestone wall. In 1893-1898 Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck built a Neo-Renaissance palace to a design by Gabriel von Seidl, and the game park was turned into a park in the English style. The palace burned down at the end of the Second World War, and its ruins were demolished in the 1960s.

Trees and water

When the park was laid out about 10,000 trees were planted, mainly beeches and oaks, as well as exotic species including the Canadian hemlock, Douglas fir and tulip tree. Tree stands older than 100 years occupy about two thirds of the area. The Mikołuszka stream, with two ponds, flows through the park, and the nature and education trail has information boards.

Traces of former times

Fragments of the game park walls have survived. On the park's grounds there are also the “Sylwester” and “Ewa” shafts of the Black Trout Adit, linked with the mining of Tarnowskie Góry; nearby is the Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry. In the former clearing by the palace stands a rehabilitation centre building.

Practical information

• The park lies in Repty, within the boundaries of Tarnowskie Góry, on ul. Jana Śniadeckiego.
• Most of the land belongs to the town, while a 17 ha fragment remains under the management of the rehabilitation centre.