Park Róż w Chorzowie, Urban park in central Chorzów, Poland.
Park Róż is an urban green space in Chorzów covering a larger area between several streets. The grounds combine geometric garden sections with more natural landscapes, including two interconnected lakes with islands.
Park Róż was laid out between 1926 and 1930 on around 10 hectares between Żwirki i Wigury, Urbanowicza, Piaskowa and Astrów streets. Its northern part was designed as a geometric rose garden, which gave the park its name, while the southern part kept a freer landscape layout. The two ponds, Mały and Duży Leopold, occupy a former sandpit; in 1997 they were dredged, sealed and linked by a channel, with three quarters of the funding from the regional environmental fund and one quarter from the city.
The park's name comes from the geometric rose garden laid out in its northern section, which gave the whole grounds its name. In the northern zone a playground sits beside that rose garden, while the southern part is kept for quieter use. A monument to a mother and child by Andrzej Szczepańczyk was unveiled here on 1 June 1979.
The park lies between Żwirki i Wigury, Urbanowicza, Piaskowa and Astrów streets, with several entrances and nearby car parks. A tram line and local shops are close by, but there are no toilets or food outlets on site. The grounds are divided into three zones: a northern playground and rose garden, an eastern pond area for walks and fishing, and a quieter southern section.
The smaller pond, Mały Leopold, was enlarged and reshaped, and an island was built on it as a nesting site for ducks, coots and mallards. A swamp cypress grows there, and its pneumatophores, roots rising above the ground to carry air, can be seen from the bank.
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