Park Helenów
Park · Łódź
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Helenów Park in Łódź, Poland is a park located between Północna, Źródłowa and Smugowa streets and covers an area of 12 hectare.
The Berlin horticultural firm L. Späth laid out the grounds after the Anstadt brothers won permission to build in 1881; the park opened to the public on 26 January 1885. On 25 August 1889 the American aeronaut Charles Leroux ascended by balloon to about 1,500 metres above the park and made a parachute jump, the first the city had seen. A menagerie opened in March 1890 with bears, a trained chimpanzee, deer and wild boar, expanded two years later with seals, antelope and lemurs. The park's glamour did not survive the First World War, and German occupation stripped more of its grounds during the Second; restoration through the 1990s brought back its ponds and paths.
What you see
Five of the park's oldest trees, two pedunculate oaks, a red oak, a common beech and an ash, are registered as natural monuments; four measure more than three metres around the trunk.
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