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Mokotów
Mokotów , is a ''dzielnica'' (borough, district) of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Mokotów is densely populated, and is a seat to many foreign embassies and companies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''Służewiec Przemysłowy''), while the majority is full of parks and green areas (Mokotów Field). Although the area has been populated at least since the early Middle Ages, it was not until early 1916 when Mokotów was incorporated into Warsaw. The name of the area, first appearing as the village of Mokotowo in documents from the year 1367, has unclear origins. It is hypothesised to have come from the name of a German owner of the village, who called himself Mokoto or Mokot, however no exact reference to such an individual can be found in the historical records. Most of the area was urbanised and redeveloped throughout the 1930s in the style of modernism. The majority of the buildings survived World War II, making it one of the few well-preserved pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokotów Field
Mokotów Field (Polish: ''Pole Mokotowskie'') is a large park in Warsaw, Poland. A part of the parkland is called Józef Piłsudski Park. Located between Warsaw's Mokotów district and the city center, the park is one of the largest in Warsaw. Contrary to its name, only a small part of the modern Mokotów Field is located in the Mokotów district. Most of the field (48.61 ha, almost 71%) is located in Ochota and the City Center. Located within the park is the Polish National Library. The park is also famous for its bars. Just to the south is a Warsaw Metro station, the ''Pole Mokotowskie'' station. From 1818 till World War II, on what was originally a 200ha area, a major part was occupied by an airfield and the Warsaw Polytechnic aircraft works. The Mokotów Field was also, until 1934, the site of Warsaw Airport and, in the years 1884-1939, of the Warsaw Horse Racing Track. On May 17, 1935, the funeral of Józef Piłsudski took place on the Mokotów Fields. The current park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Służewiec Fort
Służewiec (Polish pronunciation: ) is a neighbourhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. From the 1990s, the former industrial part of Służewiec and the functionally related western part of Ksawerów began to be intensively developed with office buildings, resulting in the largest office complex in Poland. By 2016, 75 office buildings had been erected there. Due to communication problems (e.g. traffic jams and difficulties with parking), it gained an ironic name of Mordor, a dark land from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Economy Służewiec is the headquarters of many companies and public bodies, such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Starcom, Filmweb, IQVIA, LuxMed, Abbott Laboratories, Polska Grupa Prasowa, Ringier Axel Springer, Plus, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, National Appeals Chamber, Panasonic, Institute of National Remembrance, Groupe Renault, AstraZeneca, DNB ASA, T-Mobile Polska, Mondelez, Toyota Bank Polska, embassy of Cuba, and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Służewiec Południowy
Służewiec (Polish pronunciation: ) is a neighbourhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. From the 1990s, the former industrial part of Służewiec and the functionally related western part of Ksawerów began to be intensively developed with office buildings, resulting in the largest office complex in Poland. By 2016, 75 office buildings had been erected there. Due to communication problems (e.g. traffic jams and difficulties with parking), it gained an ironic name of Mordor, a dark land from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Economy Służewiec is the headquarters of many companies and public bodies, such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Starcom, Filmweb, IQVIA, LuxMed, Abbott Laboratories, Polska Grupa Prasowa, Ringier Axel Springer, Plus, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, National Appeals Chamber, Panasonic, Institute of National Remembrance, Groupe Renault, AstraZeneca, DNB ASA, T-Mobile Polska, Mondelez, Toyota Bank Polska, embassy of Cuba, and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokotów Prison
Mokotów Prison ( pl, Więzienie mokotowskie, also known as ''Rakowiecka Prison'') is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. It was built by the Russians in the final years of the foreign Partitions of Poland. During the Nazi German occupation and later, under the communist rule, it was a place of detention, torture and execution of the Polish political opposition and underground fighters.Tadeusz M. Płużański "Strzał w tył głowy." Publicystyka Antysocjalistycznego Mazowsza. 2010. The prison continues to function, holding prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing, or those being held for less than one year. Before and during World War II The Mokotów prison was built in early 20th century by the Russian forces, and was used by security and criminal police of Warsaw (see also: Tsarist Citadel in the Żoliborz district). After Poland regained her independence in 1918, the site was refurbished, and, until World War II, served as the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sielce
Sielce (Polish pronunciation: ) is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. Sielce is roughly bounded on the North by Podchorążych Street, the East by Czerniakowska Street, the South by Beethhovena Street, and the West by Sobieskiego Street. Its northwest corner adjoins the Royal Baths Park, also known as Park Łazienkowski, on the southwest side, with two entrances to the park (one from Gagarina Street, and one on Podchorążych). History In 1412, Duke Janusz I gave the dean of the chapter collegiate St. John a portion of land lying in the north of Siedlce (Sielce). It became the property of the church and survived until confiscation by the Prussian government during the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. A small-sized village (5 fiefs in 1528) together with Czerniakow and Czarnów once constituted a whole. There was a farm and ''Wójtostwo'' (town), in the sixteenth century a clothier lived in Sielcach. In the first half of the nineteenth century, part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadyba
Sadyba is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It has an administrative status of ''osiedle'' within the city. Sadyba can be divided into Old Sadyba, mainly upper class housing, and New-Sadyba with modern retail stores and communist era high rise apartments. Old and New Sadyba can be divided roughly by Świętego Bonifacego street, just south of the Sadyba Best mall. Sadyba is known as the "Garden City" due to the large number of household and community gardens tended by the residents. History The Sadyba district was home to the Oasis Battalion (Batalionu Oaza) of the Polish Resistance. Museums * Katyń Museum (Muzeum Katynskie) - A museum dedicated to the memory of the Katyn Massacre. * Polish Army Museum (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) - A collection of Polish military equipment located at Fort Sadyba. Famous residents * Józef Beck - Polish Minister of Foreign AffairsTomasz Urzykowski ''Oficerska Sadyba i Miasto Ogród Czerniaków'' 08.05.2008 http://warsza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siekierki
Siekierki is a neighborhood in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It's a sparsely inhabited and poorly developed area located beside the Vistula The Vistula (; pl, Wisła, ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest river in Europe, at in length. The drainage basin, reaching into three other nations, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ... river. Formerly Siekierki was a village, since 1916 is within Warsaw city borders. A location of technology and science park was planned there in 2005, but in 2009 plans were abandoned. Notes Neighbourhoods of Mokotów {{Warsaw-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czerniaków
Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself. Called ''Czerniakowo'' since the Middle Ages, it was then merely a small village located well to the south of the Warsaw's Old Town. In the 19th century the area became densely built-up and became populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of society, which gave birth to a specific local version of the Warsaw dialect. During the Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance movement in World War II, Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occ ... the area was one of the last Polish strongholds. Neighbourhoods of Mokotów {{warsaw-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw School Of Economics
SGH Warsaw School of Economics ( pl, Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, ''SGH''''Statut Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie.'' Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie.) is the oldest and most prestigious business school in Poland. SGH Warsaw School of Economics was founded in 1906 as a private school under the name ''August Zieliński Private Trade Courses for Men''. On 30 July 1919 it became a separate legal entity and was granted the status of an institution of higher education. The school was renamed ''Szkoła Główna Handlowa (SGH)'' in 1933. Following World War II SGH was nationalized and its name changed to ''Szkoła Główna Planowania i Statystyki (Main School of Planning and Statistics)'' with an abbreviation of SGPiS. The school regained its pre- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Służewiec Przemysłowy
Służewiec Przemysłowy (, ''Industrial Służewiec'') is a neighborhood in the Mokotów district in Warsaw which contains a lot of offices and a few remaining factories. In Warsaw the area has the comical nickname "Mordor". History and businesses This is the non-fixed (land-use defined) part of the Służewiec neighborhood, the area pictured to the right in red, with its own relatively large spur road leading to the east-west road, the European route E30 beyond its border to the south. Since the early 1920s it has been one of the industrial and manufacturing areas of Warsaw. During the invasion of Poland of 1939 it was mostly destroyed by aerial bombardment. After World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ... many important works and factories were there. Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist Architecture
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function ( functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins File:Crystal Palace.PNG, The Crystal Palace (1851) was one of the first buildings to have cast plate glass windows supported by a cast-iron frame File:Maison François Coignet 2.jpg, The first house built of reinforced concrete, designed by François Coignet (1853) in Saint-Denis near Paris File:Home Insurance Building.JPG, The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, by William Le Baron Jenney (1884) File:Constr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
