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Stefan Kownas Arboretum
The Stefan Kownas Arboretum in 2009.
Type	Arboretum
Location	Szczecin, Poland
Coordinates	53°26′50.71″N 14°32′06.38″E / 53.4474194°N 14.5351056°E / 53.4474194; 14.5351056
Created	1975

The Stefan Kownas Arboretum (Polish: Ogród Dendrologiczny im. Stefana Kownasa) is an arboretum garden in Szczecin, Poland. It is located in the administrative neighbourhood of Niebuszewo-Bolinko, between Niemierzyńska, Żupańskiego, and Słowackiego Streets. It was opened in 1975, in place of the former Niemierzyn Cemetery, which dated to 1868.

History

The area was originally developed as the Niemierzyn Cemetery, opened in 12 October 1868 to serve the population of the nearby village of Niemierzyn (now a neighbourhood of Szczecin). Soon, it also became popular ammong upper class of the nearby city. In 1900, the cementery and the village were incorporated into the city of Szczecin, and soon after there was constructed a chappel, and in 1905, it was expanded to the northwest.

During the Second World War the cementery was used as a burial ground for victims of the allied bombing air raids. There was also constructed an undeground bunker.

Following the expulsion of the German population after the war, the necropolis begun being used by the ariving Polish population. It was renamed to the Town Square Cementery (Polish: Cmentarz Majdański). It was closed down in the 1950s. Between 1973 and 1975, the area was redeveloped into an arboretum garden, with all gravestones being removed and the chappel and most of the walls being deconstructed. It was originally known as the Arboretum Park (Polish: Park Dendrologiczny), and in 1978, it was renamed to its current name, after the Stefan Kownas, a 20th-century botanist and professor at the Agricultural University of Szczecin.

The pathways layout of the cemetery have been preserved, and some gravestones were used to build walls next to Słowackiego and Niemierzyńska Streets.

Characteristics

The garden has an area of 15.5 ha, and is located between Niemierzyńska, Żupańskiego, and Słowackiego Streets. It is an arboretum with 82 recorded species of trees and bushes. Some of them are: black poplar, common yew, European beech, pedunculate oak, sessile oak. There's also a European ash tree, overgrown with the common ivy, that has the status of a natural monument. The garden also includes several Glacial erratic rocks, the largest of which is named in commemoration of Juliusz Słowacki, a 19th-century Romantic poet.

References

1. ^ Bogdan Frankiewicz: Szczecińskie cmentarze. Szczecin: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Szczecina, 2003. (in Polish)
2. ^ Marek Łuczak: Niebuszewo, Niemierzyn. Grunhpf, Zabelsdorf, Nemitz. Szczecin: Pomorskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, 2010. ISBN 9788375182460. (in Polish)
3. ^ "Ogród Dendrologiczny im. Stefana Kownasa". rowery.wzp.pl (in Polish).

• Parks in Szczecin
• Buildings and structures completed in 1975
• Parks established in the 1970s
• 1975 establishments in Poland
• Arboreta in Poland