Park Miejski, City park in the center of Tarnowskie Góry, Poland
Park Miejski is a city park in the center of Tarnowskie Góry, Poland, featuring a small lake with a fountain, a wooden observation tower, tennis courts, a concert shell, and a café. The ground is uneven, shaped by old mining activity, and the park is filled with trees of many species alongside maintained paths.
The park was founded in 1903 thanks to the efforts of a local priest, Franciszek Kokot, who bought the land, and the town mayor Richard Otte, who had it prepared as a public recreation area. Over the 20th century it grew steadily, gaining a sports field in 1910, a war cemetery in 1918, and heritage protection in 2016.
Park Miejski sits on the ground of former ore mines, and the uneven surface with small hills and dips is still visible as you walk through it. The paths were given names in 2013, such as Aleja Kaganków and Aleja Skarbka, each one referencing a part of the local mining story.
The park is in the center of Tarnowskie Góry and easy to reach on foot from the main streets. It is open year-round, and visiting in different seasons gives a different experience, from summer concerts at the shell stage to winter sledding on the hill.
In the western part of the park there is a war cemetery from the First World War, and in 2011 a monument to the victims of the Smolensk air disaster was placed right next to it. A large boulder near the entrance also carries a plaque with a poem written in 1925 by a local chronicler, Jan Nowak.
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