Silesian Insurgents Park in Katowice

Silesian Insurgents Park is a small park in the Śródmieście district of Katowice, between Wojciecha Korfantego Avenue, Walentego Roździeńskiego Avenue, Uniwersytecka Street and Prof. Józef Pieter roundabout. It contains the Monument to the Silesian Insurgents and the monument to General Jerzy Ziętek, and its trees are a remnant of a manor garden from the 19th century.

The garden of the Tiele-Winckler manor

The square with its trees by the Monument to the Silesian Insurgents is what is left of a garden laid out in the mid-19th century behind the Katowice manor of the Tiele-Winckler family. Before the war there stood here a Neoclassical Temple of Contemplation (Świątynia Dumania) and an obelisk in honour of Franz von Winckler, erected in 1853 to a design by Theodor Kalide and destroyed after the Second World War. The manor was demolished in the 1970s.

The monuments and the name of the park

The Monument to the Silesian Insurgents was unveiled on 1 September 1967, and the monument to General Jerzy Ziętek on 19 November 2005. The name Silesian Insurgents Park itself was given by a resolution of the Katowice City Council of 27 September 2010, which came into force on 13 December 2010. The name covers the square together with the area on which the monument stands. The monument itself is described on a separate page: Monument to the Silesian Insurgents.

Practical information

• Location: Katowice, Śródmieście, between Korfantego Avenue, Roździeńskiego Avenue and Uniwersytecka Street.
• What to expect: a short stop among old trees by the monuments, not an all-day outing.
• Nearby: the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (about 300 m), the Silesian Theatre and the Silesian Museum.