Stabłowicki Park

Stabłowicki Park lies in Wrocław, in the Stabłowice housing estate, in the area of Stabłowicka and Główna streets. It covers about 5.5 hectares and was created as a private park around a palace-style villa built after 1892.

A private park of a botanist and an architect

The park was founded by the botanist Karol Lauterbach, who based its design on vegetation characteristic of the floodplain of the nearby river and kept the whole in a naturalistic style, echoing a private arboretum. The residential building stood at the centre of the layout, with a driveway and a lawn in front of it. Along a north-south axis, an avenue was laid out leading to the utility and gardening section. A later owner of the park was the architect Heinrich Lauterbach.

By the Bystrzyca, without the villa and fence

The Bystrzyca river flows along the eastern side of the park. The palace-style villa and the fence with its ornamental gate no longer exist: in the postwar period the grounds, like several other former palace parks in Wrocław, were converted into a publicly accessible municipal park. The current name has been in force under a resolution of the Wrocław City Council of 9 October 1993.

Natural monuments

Trees recognised as natural monuments grow in the park: a London plane, a European white elm growing by the river, and a pedunculate oak on the edges of the grounds.

Nearby

Not far away lies Park Leśnicki, and a little further Złotnicki Park - both can be combined into a single walking route with Stabłowicki Park.

Practical information

• Location: Wrocław, Stabłowice housing estate, in the area of Stabłowicka and Główna streets
• Access: convenient access from Stabłowicka Street or Główna Street
• What to expect: a park by the Bystrzyca with natural monuments, with no surviving buildings from the former palace estate