Park Ujazdowski - Warsaw, Poland
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N 52° 13.206 E 021° 01.525
34U E 501736 N 5785519
This is an extremely beautiful park in Warsaw with plenty of features.
Waymark Code: WMM3ZT
Location: Mazowieckie, Poland
Date Posted: 07/17/2014
Views: 11
It was originally built between 1893 and 1896 in the village of Ujazdów. It was designed by the Chief Municipal Gardener of Warsaw, Franciszek Szanior.
In 1965 the park was added to the National Register of Monuments and granted State protection. Then, between 2000 and 2002 major renovations took place and the park had new additions: a nice pergola, a rebuilt cascade, a modern playground, etc.
From Wikipedia:
"In 1782 King Stanislaw August Poniatowski bought the village and relocated it about a kilometer west (near what is now the main campus of the Warsaw Polytechnic), while the old village's area (along the axis of the "Royal Road") was turned into Pole Marsowe (the Field of Mars), a large square for military parades, modeled and named after Paris' Champ de Mars. The village itself was renamed Nowa Wies ("New Village") and gave its name to the present-day ulica Nowowiejska (New Village Street).
After the Russian takeover of Warsaw in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, the area lost its military character and became a venue for annual fairs. It also served as a place of entertainment, with merry-go-rounds and open-air stands placed there every summer. In 1893, under Mayor Sokrates Starynkiewicz, the renowned garden architect Franciszek Szanior was commissioned to turn the former Field of Mars into a public park in the-then popular "landscape style," a mixture of Romantic garden and Baroque-style lanes. The avenue of chestnut trees in the western part of the area was incorporated into the newly founded park.
At the time of its foundation, the park was one of the most modern in Europe. It featured a large pond, fountains and a reinforced-concrete bridge over the southern part of the pond, built by the renowned engineer William Lindley.[1] The bridge was the second construction built of that material in the world, after the bridge in Viggen, Switzerland (1894). The park also had gas lighting, a playground for children, and a public weighing scale (still in use as of 2009). The park's sculptures were carved by Edward Wittig, Pius Welonski and Théodore-Charles Gruyère. After World War II, a monument to Ignacy Jan Paderewski, by Michal Kamienski, was added.
Ujazdów Park is a favorite of Varsovians: its playground is popular with children, and many newlyweds use the park as a setting for their wedding photographs. In 2002 the park was completely refurbished."
Name: Park Ujazdowski
Street Location: Multiple streets
Local Municipality: Warsaw
State/Province, etc.: Mazowieckie
Country: Poland
Web Site: [Web Link]
Date Established: 10th August 1896
Picnic Facilities: avillion
Recreational Facilities:
Children's Playground
Monuments/Statues: many sculptures
Fountains: Yes
Ponds/Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Beach: a pond with a stream
Traditional Geocaches:
there are a few as well
Memorial/Commemoration: Not listed
Art (murals/sculpture, etc.): Not listed
Special Events: Not listed
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