Świerklaniec – located within a bicycle-trip distance from Tarnowskie Góry, this spectacular park claims to be the only, pure English-style Park in continental Europe; once a home to a 19th-century palace, the main residence of Donnersmarck family, and fully preserved Piast dynasty medieval castle (both structures destroyed during World War II and the post-war Soviet era). Grandiose palace sometimes called "miniature Versailles" was built by Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck for his mistress Pauline Thérèse Lachmann, the most successful of 19th-century French courtesans, also known as "La Paiva", who later became his wife Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck and died here in 1884. All building materials as well as artists, sculptors and labor involved in erecting this structure were imported from France. Today Świerklaniec Park is open to public however only romantic guest house and set of magnificent fountains and sculptures remain from palatial complex that once stood here. During the sixties large, man-made lake was added to the north. Notable people John II the Good (1460–1532), Duke of Opole, last one of the Opole line of the Piast dynasty, co-founder of Tarnowskie Góry. George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543), from the House of Hohenzollern, co-founder of Tarnowskie Góry. George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539–1603), from the House of Hohenzollern, who gave a coat of arms to Tarnowskie Góry. Rudolf von Carnall (1804–1874), engineering geologist Donnersmarck family, for over two centuries owners of most of the town and surrounding lands. Salomon Isaac (1730–1794), Jewish trade agent and mining entrepreneur, one of the founders of Upper Silesian mining and metallurgical industries Stefan Jurkowski (born 1948), poet, publicist, literary critic, journalist Donat Kirsch (born 1953), author, novelist and essayist Alexander Kohut (1865–1967), talmudist and orientalist, rabbi of Tarnowitz Andrzej Korosiewicz (born 1972), musician and poet Pauline Thérèse Lachmann, Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck, also known as La Païva (1819–1884), the most successful of 19th-century French courtesans Michał Lewek (1878–1967), Roman Catholic priest Bolesław Lubosz (1928–2001), poet, essayist and translator Martin Max (born 1968), German footballer Krzysztof Miller (born 1962), photographer, camera operator and filmmaker Jan Miodek (born 1946), linguist Paweł Musioł (1905–1943), politician, educator, publicist and historian of Silesian literature Dariusz Świercz (born 1994), chess grandmaster Józef Wandzik (born 1963), footballer Martin Websky (1824–1886), German mineralogist who discovered and described a variation of Aragonite and named it "Tarnowicyt" (from Tarnowskie Góry) Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), physician and neuropathologist Jolanta Wilk (born 1961), actress Robert Wojsyk (born 1990),