Located right next to the Stary Browar Shopping Centre, Dąbrowski Park - named after Polish general and Kościuszko Uprising veteran Jan Henryk Dąbrowski - is a 4ha green space on the site of two 19th-century cemeteries which were obliterated during WWII. As it happens, much of the extended family of Paul von Hindenburg - the Poznań-born German WWI hero-turned-president who helped Hitler rise to power - was buried here in graves that are now untraceable.

Before World War II, the area was also home to a pond and three handsome manors. One of these, the Mycielski Manor, was only dismantled in the 1970s to make room for a dual carriageway - a controversial project which never came to fruition. Back in 2003 the area was again the subject of controversy when the city sold undervalued plots of land to the owners of the Stary Browar complex, ostensibly to expand the park, but with the real purpose of building a new wing of the shopping centre; this move deprived the city treasury of 6-7 million złoty and led to a guilty conviction for the mayor in 2008.

Today Dąbrowski Park's main feature is a playground, but the wide open green space offers a welcome respite from both the retail rabbithole of Stary Browar and high street chaos of adjacent Pówiejska Street.