Park Helenów

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Park with five natural monument trees, including an ash tree with a 385 cm circumference.

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.

From riders

What you'll 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.

Checked 13 August 2026

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