Piny Park

Piny Park lies in the Osada Jana district of Tarnowskie Góry, the former 25th Anniversary of People's Poland estate. It was laid out in the mid-1970s, and its varied terrain is a trace of former mining.

Origin of the name and the shape of the land

The name refers to pingi, shallow, funnel-shaped depressions from a few to a dozen or so metres deep. They formed during open-cast ore extraction or when old shafts collapsed. Between the 16th and 18th centuries iron and lead ores were extracted here. Around the depressions there are often small hills known as warpie.

History of the park

The park was created as part of the reclamation of the northern part of a gravel pit, worked from the 19th century until the end of the 1960s. The trees and shrubs were planted, the paths laid out and the amphitheatre built as voluntary community work by employees of Tarnowskie Góry factories. At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s the park began to fall into ruin, and the pond in its northern part dried up. Today the site is looked after by local associations, which organise clean-up days.

Nearby

It is not far from the park to the Royal Fryderyk Mine and the town centre.

Practical information

• Location: Osada Jana, bounded by ulica Obwodnica to the south, the old bed of the Stoła river and the narrow-gauge railway line to the west, and allotment gardens to the north and east.
• The legal status of the plots makes revitalisation difficult, so do not expect a fully developed park.