Ławica, formerly a village, is an official

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; American and British English spelling differences, see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community ...

and administrative area within Grunwald, in the city of

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

, Greater Poland.

History

Its first mention was around the year 1400, where is it was a village within the gmina of Żabikowo (now a part of

Luboń Luboń (german: Luban) is a town in Poland, situated on the Warta River, in the Poznań metropolitan area, in the Poznań County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It has 29,301 inhabitants (2010). The town was created in 1954 by the merger of 3 ...

). Since the 20th Century it became a major transport hub especially with the Poznań-Ławica Airport, which was captured by on 6 January 1919 in the Battle of Ławica by the Greater Polish insurgents together with equipment worth 200 million ℳ including; 26 operational aircraft, around 400 dismantled ones, of which about 100 were suitable for scrapping; most of them were later completed and became part of the Polish military air force. In 1940 the area was incorporated into the city limits. In 1977 the

Tor Poznań Tor Poznań is a motorsport race track located in the Ławica area of Poznań, Poland. The circuit has also small kart circuit layout. The circuit was resurphaced and renovated in 2006, and it has FIA Grade 3 standards. Lap records Marc Gen ...

racing circuit was opened. Currently it is also a major

residential neighbourhood A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family reside ...

with

detached A stand-alone house (also called a single-detached dwelling, detached residence or detached house) is a free-standing residential building. It is sometimes referred to as a single-family home, as opposed to a multi-family residential dwelli ...

and

semi-detached A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single family duplex dwelling house that shares one common wall with the next house. The name distinguishes this style of house from detached houses, with no shared walls, and terraced hou ...

single family home A stand-alone house (also called a single-detached dwelling, detached residence or detached house) is a free-standing residential building. It is sometimes referred to as a single-family home, as opposed to a multi-family residential dwellin ...

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