Powsin Culture Park
Urban park in Warsaw, Poland
52°06′58″N 21°05′29″E / 52.11611°N 21.09139°E / 52.11611; 21.09139The Powsin Culture Park (Polish: Park Kultury w Powsinie) is an urban park in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Ursynów, at 1 Maślaków Street. It is a recreational area, containing numerous sports and cultural amenities. The park was established in 1947.
History
In 1938, the Polski Country Club bought a 50-hectare area in Skarpa Powsińska from count Adam Branicki to built there a golf course. In the 1940s, during the occupation of Poland in the Second World War, it was turned into a farmland. In 1947, the land was donated to the city of Warsaw, for it to establish there a recreational area, named the Powsin Holiday Resort (Polish: Ośrodek Wczasów Świątecznych w Powsinie). In 1956, it was renamed to the Powsin Culture Park.[1][2]
Characteristics
The Powsin Culture Park is located in the neighbourhood of Skarpa Powsińska, within the district of Ursynów, and near the border of Wilanów, at 1 Maślaków Street. It borders the Kabaty Woods and the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden – Powsin Centre for Biological Diversity Conservation. The park has the total area of 35 ha.[3][4]
It is a recreational area with many sports and cultural amenities, including basketball and valleyball courts, swimmingpool, acoustical shell, and camping huts.[3][4]
There grows a 24-metre-tall pedunculate oak tree, nicknamed Hetman, with the status of the natural monument.[5]
References
- ^ "Park Kultury w Powsinie. Rys historyczny". sport.um.warszawa.pl (in Polish).
- ^ "Historia". polski.golf (in Polish).
- ^ a b "Park Kultru w Powsinie". sport.um.warszawa.pl (in Polish).
- ^ a b Encyklopedia Warszawy. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994, p. 676. ISBN 83-01-08836-2. (in Polish)
- ^ "Pomniki przyrody na terenie m.st. Warszawy. Pomniki przyrody na terenie dzielnicy Ursynów". bip.warszawa.pl (in Polish).
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Parks in Warsaw, Poland
- Keller Ponds Park
- Kępa Potocka Park
- Młociny Park
- Agricola Park
- Arcadia Park
- Beyer Park
- Casimir Park
- Holy Cross Park
- Krasiński Garden
- Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły Park
- Mazowiecki Park
- Mier Park
- Na Książęcem Park
- Piłsudski Park
- Porazińska Park
- Royal Baths
- Royal Castle Gardens
- Saxon Garden
- Swiss Valley Park
- Traugutt Park
- Twardowski Square
- Ujazdów Park
- University of Warsaw Botanical Garden
- University of Warsaw Library
- Wahl Gardens
- Warsaw Pomological Garden
- Armenian Square
- Dreszer Park
- Dygat Park
- Eye of the Sea Park
- Mokotów Field
- Sielce Park
- Służew Valley Park
- Five Sisters Park
- Greater Poland Park
- Malicki Park
- Mokotów Field
- Szczęśliwice Park
- Warsaw Insurgents Park
- Balaton Park
- Colonel Jan Szypowski "Leśnik" Park
- Home Army Praga Subdistrict Park
- Kamionek Election Fields
- Poliński Park
- Skaryszew Park
- Znicza Park
- Birch Woods Park
- Gucin Grove
- John Paul II Park
- Kabaty Woods Nature Reserve
- Kozłowski Park
- Moczydełko Park
- Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden
- Powsin Culture Park
- Przy Bażantarni Park
- Silent Unseen Park
- Wyczółki Park
- Mile Woods
- Natolin Park
- Morysin Nature Reserve
- Wilanów Garden
- Black Grouse Ponds Park
- Combatants Park
- Space Gardens
- Garden of the Righteous
- Moczydło Park
- Rembaczewski Garden
- Sowiński Park
- Szymański Park
- Ulrich Gardens
- Cascade Park
- Citadel Moat and Slopes Park
- Kępa Potocka Park
- Żeromski Park
- Żywiciel's Soldiers Park
