A city park from 1900 in Szczecin, about 27 ha in area, with the Summer Theatre and rare tree species.
Jan Kasprowicz Park is Szczecin's largest city park, with an area of about 27 hectares, laid out in 1900 as Quistorp Park. It lies on the slopes of the Niemierzyn Valley by Lake Rusałka. It contains the Summer Theatre, sculptures and monuments, and rare tree species.
The park was laid out in 1900 in honour of Johannes Heinrich Quistorp, who gave the city the neighbouring land: Jasne Błonia and Arkona Forest.
Until 1945 it was called Quistorp Park. Together with a part of Arkona Forest Park it forms the natural and landscape complex “Kasprowicz-Arkonka Parks Complex” with an area of 96.8 ha. The park is entered in the heritage register, and on the north it adjoins the Stefan Kownas Dendrological Garden.
The park has species rarely found in Poland, including ponderosa and mountain pines, Serbian and Brewer's spruces, yew, bald cypress and plane.
There are also the American sweetgum, the manna ash, the Caucasian wingnut, the Kentucky coffeetree, Jeffrey pine, Veitch's fir and the Chinese poplar, and among the shrubs the Virginian and Japanese witch hazel and the Persian ironwood.
The amphitheatre from 1976 is called the Helena Majdaniec Summer Theatre and has about 4,500 seats, and performances are held mainly in summer.
In 2000 a third of the audience area was roofed, and in 2020-2022 a thorough rebuilding with full roofing was carried out. Next to the amphitheatre stand the sculpture “Fiery Birds” (“Ogniste ptaki”) by Władysław Hasior from 1975 and the Monument to the Deeds of the Poles by Gustaw Zemła, unveiled on 3 September 1979. In 2016 the Monument to the Hungarian Boy by Richárd Juha was unveiled, commemorating the help given by the people of Szczecin to the inhabitants of Budapest in 1956. Almost at the edge of the park lies the Rose Garden (Różanka), recreated in 2007.
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