Oliwa Park im. Adam Mickiewicz - historic park in Gdańsks Oliwa Oliwa Stream . The park area is 11.3 hectares.Beginning today, the park was a monastery garden founded by the Cistercians . It was probably located on the east side of the old seat of the abbots of the fifteenth century , down to the Gulf of Gdansk stretched coastal forest that is cut open stream Oliwa . After the construction of the Abbot Francis Zaleski at the end of the first half of the seventeenth century, the new headquarters of abbots , the garden was extended to the south -west , coming into contact with an old monastery garden . The plan of the park in 1792New garden took shape at the initiative of the abbot of Oliwa - Jack Rybiński , the contractor was Kazimierz Dębiński of Kock . The project was the work of a gardener Hentschla , drawing inspiration from the principles of garden André Le Nôtre . This created a baroque part of the park , now known as part of the French . In front of the house Opacka (now the Department of Contemporary Art, the National Museum in Gdansk ) was created floral floor Gravel lawn toward the opening of a large rectangular pond located vertically along the east-west axis . Along the same axis was linden alley . The extension on the east end of the row of trees is covered pond , which for many years created the illusion called Duke View ( pond optically connect to distant waters a few miles of the Gulf of Gdansk. Currently sea obscured by trees ) . The resulting shady alleys called bindażami . The assumption has survived to this day almost unchanged . The lane on the pondIn parallel to the pond and Linden Avenue was another ground floor garden - Paradisium of Mickiewicz monument . In one of the alleys of this part of the park were Cave of Whispers .In 1782, after the death of Abbot Rybiński Prussian King Charles appointed the abbot of Hohenzollern- Hechingen, who brought the olive Saltzmanna John George , son of the court gardener , the creator of the royal gardens in Potsdam . Saltzmann according to the fashion of that time tried to imitate nature, based on the popular imagination in these times of Chinese gardens . In the northern part of the park , now known as the Sino- English (or English ) , have been developed winding paths and ponds mimic wildlife and parks equipment ( gazebos , pavilions , temples , famous for the preserved park plan to 1792 ) . Survived two artificial hills on the north side of the park and the stream cascade Oliwa (most likely was the site of an existing here to the sixteenth century former mill ).Some influence on the shape of Oliwa park could be a lover of gardens Krasicki bishop , who was a frequent visitor to both Abbot and Charles Rybiński Hohenzollern .After the secularization of the monastery (1831) and the death of the last abbot of Oliwa Joseph Hohenzollern- Hechingen (1836) park became the property of the Prussian state , and the inspector of the park ( for 1881 years ) was Gustav Schöndorf . Under his leadership took on the nature of the park open to the public dendrologiczno - landscaped garden . Whispers Grotto , 1900Subsequent changes in the park is the work of the inspector Erich Wocka , managing a garden in the years 1899-1929 . Near the old orangery , in the place of the maze , he created around 1910 rock and brought to the Oil several alpine plants. Conservatory itself was rebuilt at that time in a greenhouse and a small palm house , being updated several times after World War II . Popularity Oliwa park increased when in 1925, Virgin became the seat of the bishop of Gdansk , a Cistercian church was elevated to a cathedral , and when in 1927 the Abbots Palace museum facility opened Staatliche Danziger Landesmuseum für Geschichte . Princely viewing axis viewIn 1945 , at the end of the war the park was largely devastated , but had been restored almost to its previous state . Are registered natural heritage conservation Gdansk Province in 1971 as a monument of the city of Gdansk. November 1, 1946 was established in the park Acclimatization Station . In the years 1952-1956 was founded Botanical Garden in Oliwa. In 1956 the park in Oliwa was named Adam Mickiewicz . In the spring of 1976 in the park found its place Gallery of Contemporary Sculpture Gdansk . The exhibition is an initiative of Gdansk sculptors and the National Museum in Gdansk.The youngest part of the park is located on the southwestern edge of the section between ul. Jack Abbot Rybiński, and the building of Gdansk Seminary . In the past there was a Cistercian convent garden utility .The park is also Abbots Granary.
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