Szlaki województw śląskiego i opolskiego

The stone amphitheater on Mount St. Anne (Góra św. Anny), built in the 1930s, is located in the Mount St. Anne Landscape Park, near the Sanctuary of St. Anne, below the Monument of the Insurgent Deed. Before World War I, there was a limestone quarry on the site of the facility, and next to it there were lime kilns – furnaces used for burning it. The amphitheater was designed by the Nazis as a place for organizing political rallies and paying tribute to fallen Germans by the NSDAP, to whom the mausoleum at the top of the escarpment was dedicated. The amphitheater, with seven thousand seats and several thousand standing places on higher platforms, had stands made of Gogolin limestone, in which numerous fossils were visible. At the bottom of the amphitheater, there is a small stage and a flag pedestal, and for proper drainage – a labyrinth of tunnels was created in the ground, today inhabited by bats. Next to it stands a fragment of former barracks. Nowadays, occasional concerts and ceremonies are organized in the amphitheater. Additional information: Free admission. Parking at 10 Szkolna Street in Góra Świętej Anny.