Szczytnicki Park

A park of more than 100 hectares that began in 1783 as a prince's garden, and holds the Japanese Garden, the Centennial Hall and a wooden church.

A stream in Szczytnicki Park curving under an arched footbridge, with sunlight breaking through tall trees onto the water and the banks.

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What it is

Szczytnicki Park (Park Szczytnicki) began in 1783 as the garden of Prince Hohenlohe, on the site of the village of Szczytniki. In 1912–13 it became the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition, and the Japanese Garden and the wooden church were added then. It now covers more than 100 hectares.

Inside it are the Japanese Garden, the Centennial Hall and its Pergola, the Four Domes Pavilion and the Multimedia Fountain.

The wooden church

The wooden church of St John of Nepomuk was brought to the park in 1913 from Kędzierzyn-Koźle, for the Centennial Exhibition. Since 2018 it has been Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury, the Open Culture Space, run by the city's Wrocław Centre for Social Development: concerts, exhibitions, workshops and talks with travellers, all of them free.

The wooden church of St John of Nepomuk seen along a path between two large tree trunks, its shingled roof and small tower rising behind them.

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Inside the wooden church: a plank gallery along the far wall above an open arcade, with exhibition panels and hanging pieces in the room.

Markus Köllner Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0

The programme is on the centre's page.

Checked 8 October 2026 Programmes and opening hours change.

Photographs by Kriskros, Jaroslaw Komar, nucek and fot. Slawek Ilski. Open any photograph for its full credit and licence.

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