Park of 7.5 ha in Koszalin, laid out on the Old Cemetery, with natural monuments, a library and the Avenue of Memorial Oaks.
Tadeusz Kościuszko Park in Koszalin covers 7.5 ha between Kościuszki and Młyńska streets and Monte Cassino Avenue. Until the mid-1960s it was the Old Cemetery, closed to burials in 1926. Today it is a historic park with old trees, a library in the middle and several monuments.
The name “Kościuszko Park” is in common use, although it is not the official name. In the middle of the area stands the building of the Joachim Lelewel Public Library in Koszalin, the construction of which in 1973 was preceded by the felling of some of the trees. In front of it lies Polonia Square with the Monument to the Bond of the Polish Diaspora with the Motherland, unveiled in 1976, designed by Romuald Grodzki. The park is entered in the heritage register.
Some of the ancient trees were planted when the area was still a necropolis. Five of them have been recognised as natural monuments: a small-leaved lime with a circumference of about 420 cm, three European ashes (300, 340 and 400 cm) and a pedunculate oak with a circumference of 470 cm. Surveys showed that 470 trees have trunks thicker than 60 cm in circumference. Growing here are, among others, beeches, oaks, hornbeams, horse chestnuts, London planes, walnuts and elms.
In the park stand an obelisk of the Union of Poles in Germany and a monument devoted to the memory of the deceased inhabitants of Koszalin, that is, a restored former gravestone of an athlete. In 2006 the Avenue of Memorial Oaks was planted: 25 trees dedicated to distinguished inhabitants of Koszalin who lived before 1945, to the dukes of Pomerania, to the order of Cistercian nuns and to other figures, for example the physicist Rudolf Clausius. Later oaks dedicated to John Paul II and Cardinal Ignacy Jeż were added. In the neighbourhood lies the Park by the Amphitheatre.
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