Ziębice City Park was established between 1898 and 1900 on land obtained by the Ziębice Beautification Society from a local ceramics factory, and later phe park was enlarged by areas donated by the city and landowner Julius Schottländer, among others. In 1903 -1905, a water tower was built in the park, which is also a vantage point called "Water Castle", from which flows an artificially created "wild stream", falling after numerous small cascades into the pond at the main entrance to the park. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the area adjacent to the pond, the erection of dinosaur figures forming Ziębice's "Jurassic Park" began, attracting crowds, especially young strollers, to the City Park. The element towering over the park and the entire city is the Piast Eagle Monument, solemnly unveiled on October 12, 1971. The huge figure of the eagle is the largest ceramic sculpture in Europe - it was made according to the design and under the supervision of Tadeusz Teller at the local ceramics plant. At the foot of the monument are plaques commemorating the battlefields of World War II, where Poles died, and under the plaques are urns with soil from those fields. From under the eagle there is a beautiful view not only of Ziębice but also of the surrounding area. You can see from here, among others, the post-Cistercian monastery in Henryków and Mount Sleza, a symbol of Silesia, which is about 40 km away.
09.10.2013
