Powsin Culture Park
| Powsin Culture Park | |
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 The Powsin Culture Park in 2017. | |
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| Type | Urban park |
| Location | Ursynów, Warsaw, Poland |
| Coordinates | 52°06′58″N 21°05′29″E / 52.11611°N 21.09139°E |
| Area | 35 ha |
| Created | 1947 |
The 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "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).