The largest park in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, 18 ha, laid out in the 19th century in the centre of the former spa, entered in the heritage register in 1993.
The Spa Park in Jastrzębie-Zdrój covers 18 hectares in the Zdrój district, between 1 Maja and Witczaka streets. It is the largest park in the town and one of the largest in the Silesian Voivodeship, and since 1993 it has been in the heritage register.
It was laid out in the second half of the 19th century as the central point of the spa complex. The heritage register describes its style as landscape, and the entry bears the number A/1524/93 of 30 April 1993. After the Second World War the park was rebuilt under the care of the Society of Polish-Soviet Friendship. The official opening took place on 22 July 1955, and the park was then called the Park of Polish-Soviet Friendship.
Around the park stood a complex of spa buildings. The Spa House in the Swiss style was built in 1862 by Felix von Königsdorff. A pump room operated from 1872 in a music pavilion from 1861, and the pump room was demolished in 2011. Three bathhouses were also built (from 1862, 1912 and 1926), along with sanatoria from 1911, 1928 and 1938, some in the Bauhaus style. Spa activity ended in 1994. Some buildings were demolished and others adapted to new functions, and in 2015 a brine inhalatorium was built in the complex. About 100 metres from the park stands the City History Gallery in Jastrzębie-Zdrój.
Species from different continents grow in the park: eastern arborvitae, Sawara cypress and Lawson's cypress, Douglas fir, Weymouth pine, poison sumac, sweet chestnut, ginkgo and Osage orange. Alongside them occur native species such as hornbeam and paper birch. The facilities include walking avenues, a fountain, a summer café and a concert shell from 1928.
A walk around Zdrój can begin at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which stands about 200 metres from the park.
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