Basic information
The Bezruč Park was set up at the turn of the century (1898) when the first garden adjustments were made. Due to leaking sewage from houses standing on the medieval and Theresian city walls, catastrophic hygienic conditions prevailed beneath the walls as late as the 1830s.
The change occurred only in 1835 after construction of a sewerage system and a subsequent construction of a promenade path that passes through the park today. When creating and renovating the park, the architects managed very well to take advantage of the local scenery landscape – rocks, city walls and the Morava river branch, the Mill Creek, which forms a watershed between the park and the fenced part of the Botanic Garden. The tree layer consists of common tree species. Groups of slim Serbian spruces (Picea omorika) are of more recent date. Banks of the Morava are covered by a continuous growth of low forms of yew.
As for the original species of our flora, the ivy-leaved toadflax grows on the rocks.
In the Bezruč Park, there is a Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers containing remains of Yugoslav soldiers killed in Moravia and Silesia in the First World War. The eleven meters high building in an antique-style décor designed by architect Hubert Aust from Olomouc was built in 1926 on land that was donated by the city of Olomouc to the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Memorial of Petr Bezruč by Olomouc-based sculptors Rudolf Doležal, Karel Lenhart and Vojtěch Hořínek was unveiled in 1947.
The Botanic Garden, part of the Bezruč Park, was established due to the intention to extend the outdoor grounds of the Exhibition Centre as far as the Crown Fortress (in the 1960s). In the 1970s, a new park began to emerge here representing progressive horticultural plans. Thanks to the concept that was different from that which characterizes the historic parks, its territory is divided into smaller units, including the so-called National Gardens, Alpinum and Rosarium with a unique collection of 10,000 rose bushes in more than 670 domestic and international varieties.