Municipal Park
DOBRODZIE?
In the town of Dobrodzie?, to the south-east of the market square, there is a 3.8 ha municipal park with the function of a public garden
It is owned and managed by the Dobrodzie? municipality. The park has recently been modernised. Its paths were paved, meadows dried, trees selectively cleared, ornamental plants restocked, and there were bridges built. Before it became a park, the place accommodated a castle pond with a mill. Prussian aristocracy which ruled the town for over 125 years stressed industrialism. A metallurgical furnace constructed in the town contributed to its prosperity and a rapid increase in the wealth of its inhabitants. In 1884 Dobrodzie? became property of Frederick Augustus III, the last of the House of Wettin. The pond was dried and later replaced by a park with exotic varieties of trees and shrubs. The Wettins are history now, as are the European monarchies, but the park is still present. Modernised in 2002, it is one of the most charming places in Dobrodzie?. One of the very interesting places in Kielcza is a small mound with a captivating history behind it. The elevation is in the shape of a truncated cone. It is located behind the church and used to be the place of a stronghold. It is known as the pagan mound. Afforested today, in the Middle ages the mound was surrounded by a moat and two stockades. The place was a safe refuge on the forest route from Strzelce to Lubliniec. It is most likely that the sharpened stockades gave the name Kielcza (reminiscent of the Polish K?y, or sharp fangs) to the village. We may assume that in the Middle Ages the In the town of Dobrodzie?, to the south-east of the market square, there is a 3.8 ha municipal park with the function of a public garden. elevation was topped with a wooden defence tower of a residential character. Archaeologists estimate that the stronghold was active between the 13th and the 15th century.
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