The City Park extends in the Southern part of the city, from the East to the West along the left bank of the Psina river. The city owes its foundation to a councillor and a doctor of medicine, Joseph Lauffer, who in 1837 took the initiative to dry swamps and remove the second bed of the Psina river, running formerly through the centre of the present park. The oldest part of the park is its eastern section from the monument by the post office to the fountain with stone animals. Here, in 1882 the so-called Victory Pillar commemorating Prussian victories in wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870/71 was erected. After World War II the pillar and the decorative iron fence disappeared and on the plinth an obelisk with a Soviet soldier was built which has been preserved to date. On the northern part of this old promenade there is a 13th century tower, the best preserved tower in the city, crowned with the Renaissance spire, with a large fragment of the fortified wall restored in the 1980s of the 20th century. After World War II in place of houses pulled down after their destruction in 1945 the playground was created. In Nowy ?wiat street there is another 13thcentury tower, half reconstructed in the 1980s. The most interesting fragment of the City Park, between Parkowa street and the Cyna river, was created after filling up the second bed of the Psina river in 1844. In this part, at the outlet of Wa?owa street, the monument of doctor Josef Lauffer, the founder of the park, was erected in 1852, which looks like a dulled obelisk on the quadrangle plinth. The author of this monument was a sculptor named Menzel from Nysa. The monument was fenced in 1895. Another interesting object is a fountain with stone animals from 1911-1912 founded by the brewery owner, Eduard Beyer, and the monument-fountain of the “Philosopher from the Forest” (Philo von Walde) – the famous Silesian jargon poet Johannes Reinelt (1858-1906) born in Go?uszowice (Kreuzendorf) near G?ubczyce. The monument was built from Silesian marble and granite by Josef Obeth from Jeseniki in the years 1922-1923. Behind the monument, on the other side of Parkowa street, there is a dormitory of the Agricultural Schools Complex, built in 1903-1904 as a poorhouse. Our Lady with the Infant Jesus, sculpted in the sandstone on the facade of the building is the work by Paul Ondrusch. In the 1920s and 1930s of the 20th century the newest part of the park was set up based on the plans of the city construction councillor, Paul Klehr. This is the section from Powsta?ców street to the Temple of Muses – a stone arbour in the western part of the city, also called the “Mushroom”, and further to the north in the direction of the road leading to Gadzowice. The prevailing species are: linden, maples, copper beeches, sycamores, birches and acacias