Stawy Brustmana, Artificial pond in Bielany, Warsaw, Poland

Stawy Brustmana are two connected artificial ponds in the Bielany district of Warsaw, surrounded by waterside plants and low vegetation. Narrow paths run around the water's edge, letting visitors follow the shoreline from different angles.

The ponds are flooded clay pits left by the extraction of Pliocene clay for a brickworks, probably formed around 1820 after the Agronomic Institute in Marymont took over the land in 1819. A third pond of the complex was later filled in and a school built on its site. The ponds were renovated in 2000 and entered in the municipal heritage register in 2019 under number BIE35073.

The name Brustman comes from one of the former owners of the surrounding land, not from a landowning family. The ponds are fed continuously by a stream and by an underground well built in 2001. Two wooden footbridges cross the canal between the ponds, and a pier stands on the eastern pond.

The area is easy to walk around, as the paths near the water are short and fairly flat. A visit in good daylight makes it easier to spot birds and notice the details of the waterside vegetation.

Although these ponds sit inside the city, they regularly attract water birds more often associated with rural wetlands. The heritage listing protects a natural water feature rather than a building, which is uncommon in an urban registry.