Old Town Park

Old Town Park a recreation center in Lodz, situated between Zachodnia, Ogrodowa Polnocna, Franciszkanska and Wolborska Streets, isolated on Nowomiejska. The territory of 17 ha. It was made in the years 1951-1953 as per the plan of K. Chrabelski. Situated in the Old Town, in the valley of the Lodka waterway, now covered up in an underground channel. Where the recreation center is situated, until the point when the finish of the nineteenth century was a water repository the supposed Pond on the Lodka River. At the point when the supply was depleted and the waterway streaming down that way was taken into the channel, the zone was firmly manufactured.

The devotees of Judaism lived here most importantly. In the area, there were Fish showcase, and in the region of the Old Market, in the northern piece of the present stop stood a vast synagogue, the supposed Altstadt. In 1941, the occupation specialists chose to annihilate a few structures, in this manner needing to diagram the southern fringe of the Lodz ghetto. After the war, it was chosen to make a green territory around there. In 1951 - at the edge of the developing park, in the region of the North and Franciszkan intersection - it was put into use a cable car circle where rural lines were running. For the most part, this zone is known as the alleged "Lost quarter".