Repty Park

Repty Park, also known as Repecki Park (Reptener Park, Reptener Tiergarten) is a 19th-century landscape park covering approximately 200 hectares, located within the city of Tarnowskie Góry and a small portion of Gmina Zbrosławice, Poland. Most of its area was inscribed in the register of immovable historic monuments in December 1966. It forms part of the nature and landscape complex named Repty Park and Drama River Valley. The park's current grounds were once covered by deciduous forest. In 1824, Count Carl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck purchased the village of Repty and its surrounding estates, establishing a game preserve in a section of forest north of the village. Between 1893 and 1898, a Renaissance Revival palace was built in its central area, and the preserve was transformed into an English-style park. After World War I, the park became part of Poland; following World War II, it was nationalized. In the 1960s, the palace was demolished, replaced by the Upper Silesian Rehabilitation Center. Most of the park is now forested. The park is divided into two sections by the northwest-flowing Drama river. It preserves forest communities of beechwoods, hornbeam-oak forests, and riparian forests, alongside patches of wet meadows and reed beds. The park is home to several protected plant and animal species, rare bat species, and numerous breeding bird species.

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