Morskie Oko Park
The Park Morskie Oko is located in the Warsaw city district Mokotów . The complex, which is still around ten hectares today, covers the embankment of the Vistula and extends from Ulica Puławska in the west to Ulica Belwederska in the east. The park with its ponds and playgrounds is a popular destination for the residents of “Old Mokotów”.
history
The park, which extends from the embankment of the Vistula to the southeast, was created by Simon Gottlieb Zug with the participation of Johann Christian Schuch and Karol Bartel as an addition to a romantic building ensemble for Izabela Lubomirska around 1775. The “Domek Mauretański” (Mauritanian house) and a free-standing, historicizing gate with a dovecote belonged to the Szuster Palace , which stands on the edge of the embankment . The complex was called Mon coteau ("My Hill") in French , from which the name of the later surrounding village "Mokotów" is said to have developed.
In 1820 the property became the property of Anna Potocka. For later owners from the Szuster family, a burial tomb was laid out near the palace around the end of the 19th century.
The lower part of the park , near Belwederska Street, was leased in the 20th century to create the “Promenada” amusement park; the name Staw Promenada ( pond promenade ), which still exists today, is reminiscent of the amusement park at that time.
In the cold winter of 1940 (during the German occupation ), the residents felled all of the park's trees due to a lack of heating material. The buildings were also destroyed by fighting. After the war the park lost part of its area, so a primary school was built on Ulica Artura Grottgera ( Szkoła Podstawowa nr 98 ). The park was only planted again and the buildings restored between 1960 and 1965.
Today the seat of the Warsaw Music Society “Stanisław Moniuszko” is located in the Szuster Palace . The park has three ponds. One can be used for fishing, the second contains a variably adjustable and illuminated fountain system .
Shape of the park at the beginning of the 19th century
The elongated property of about eleven hectares consisted of two areas: the higher part with the palace and a flower ground floor , kitchen and farm buildings, orangery building , vegetable garden and small orchard; the pleasure garden of around six hectares in the style of a landscape garden, which adjoins the garden terrace of the Schlößchen . This strip of land, about 125 meters wide, consisted for the most part of forest, which was criss-crossed by a dense network of irregular footpaths of varying widths. The forest ended at a water surface with a few islands, some of which could be reached via small bridges. Important elements were: a grotto made of Krakow limestone and rough marble, two waterfalls, a fisherman's hut, a yard and a bee garden. There was also a meadow with cattle, which gave part of the garden scene the appearance of a ferme ornée .
literature
- Gerard Ciołek : Gardens in Poland ( Ogrody polskie ). Budowictwo i architektura , Warsaw 1954, pages 134, 136-137.
- Julius A. Chroscicki and Andrzej Rottermund, Architectural Atlas of Warsaw , 1st edition, Arkady, Warsaw 1978, p. 192
- Tadeusz S. Jaroszewski, Palaces and Residences in Warsaw , Interpress Publishing, ISBN 83-223-2049-3 , Warsaw 1985, p. 81
- Janina Rukowska, Travel Guide Warsaw and the Surrounding Area, 3rd edition, ISBN 83-217-2380-2 , Sport i Turystyka, Warsaw 1982, p. 132
Individual evidence
- ↑ The name “Mon coteau” may also be older than the park
- ↑ Anna Potocka, b. Tyszkiewicz (1779–1867) was the daughter-in-law of Stanisław Kostka Potocki
