Park

THE PARK In 1798, the Prussian War Treasury, wielding power as the city authority under the Second Partition of Poland, took the decision to create a wild garden in Kalisz. In 1888, the Governor of Kalisz, Michał Piotrowicz Daragan, commissioned the building of a romantic ruin in the park. The ruins were demolished during World War II. In 1894, the rowers of Kalisz decided to establish Oddział Cesarskiego Towarzystwa Ratowania Tonących (Branch of the Imperial Society for the Rescue of the Drowning). The Tsarist authorities gave their consent and 1894 is taken as the official inception of Towarzystwo Wioślarskie w Kaliszu (the Kalisz Rowing Society). In the nineteenth century, regarded as the most beautiful Polish public garden in the oldest part in the style of an English garden. It is the oldest city park in Poland, entered in the register of historic monuments in 1964.

Questions: 1. Kto zlecił zbudowanie romantycznych ruin? a) Pruskie Wojska b) Michał Piotrkowski Dragan c) Michał Piotrowicz Daragan poprawna odpowiedź: c EASY 1. The oldest part of the park was in the style: a) English b) French c) Mediterranean  correct answer : a

HARD 1. In 1894 Kalisz rowers decided to create: a) Division of Flood Aid Society b) Branch of the Society for Saving drowning c) Branch of the Society for Saving burning  correct answer : b  Source : Książka pt."Portret Miasta: Architektura Kalisza w dokumentach archiwalnych"