Since 2011, the Polish 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 ...
has been divided into 42 ''
osiedle
Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its dzielnica, or of a town, with its own council and executive. Li ...
s'' or neighbourhoods, each of which has its own elected council with certain decision-making and spending powers. The first uniform elections for these councils were held on 20 March 2011.
From 1954 to 1990, Poznań was divided into five ''
dzielnica
In the Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica (Polish plural ''dzielnice'') is an administrative subdivision or quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council ('' rada dzielnicy'', or ''dzielnica council''), ...
s'', called
Stare Miasto,
Nowe Miasto,
Jeżyce,
Grunwald and
Wilda. These ceased to exist as governmental units in 1990, although they are still used as areas of jurisdiction for certain administrative offices. Some osiedle councils were set up during the years to 2010, but the present division introduced in 2011 is the first to provide a uniform set of units of this type covering the whole area of the city.
Note that the city contains many
housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
Popular throughout the United States ...
s and residential areas whose names include the word "osiedle"; not all of these are osiedles in the sense of the administrative division discussed here.
Former and current divisions
The map to the right shows the former division of the city into five districts called ''
dzielnica
In the Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica (Polish plural ''dzielnice'') is an administrative subdivision or quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council ('' rada dzielnicy'', or ''dzielnica council''), ...
s''. The names
Stare Miasto ("Old Town"),
Jeżyce and
Wilda are taken from neighbourhoods within those districts (the
Poznań Old Town
Poznań Old Town is the centermost neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the once walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called ''Stare Miasto'' in Polish, although that name may also refer to the wider admi ...
neighbourhood and the old neighbourhoods of Jeżyce and Wilda); similarly the name
Grunwald can also refer to a relatively small neighbourhood within that district. The district of
Nowe Miasto ("New Town") covered the parts of the city east of the main stream of the river
Warta
The river Warta ( , ; german: Warthe ; la, Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly north-west to flow into the Oder, against the German border. About long, it is Poland's second-longest river within its borders after the Vistula, a ...
.
The boundaries of these former districts mostly coincide with boundaries between the post-2011 ''
osiedle
Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its dzielnica, or of a town, with its own council and executive. Li ...
s''. The present 42 osiedles are listed below, according to which former district they are contained within. Further down the page is a map of these osiedles and a table of population and area data.
Stare Miasto
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of
Stare Miasto:
*''Stare Miasto'' ("Old Town") – covers the central part of Poznań, including the
Old Town neighbourhood itself
*''Stare Winogrady'' ("Old Winogrady") – covers the southern and eastern parts of the
Winogrady neighbourhood
*''Nowe Winogrady Północ'' ("New Winogrady North") – covers the northern and north-western parts of the post-1960s estates in Winogrady
*''Nowe Winogrady Wschód'' ("New Winogrady East") – covers the north-eastern parts of those estates
*''Nowe Winogrady Południe'' ("New Winogrady South") – covers the southern parts of those estates
*''Piątkowo'' – covers the main estates in the
Piątkowo neighbourhood
*''Jana III Sobieskiego i Marysieńki'' – includes two estates in the north of Piątkowo
*''Naramowice'' – covers the Naramowice neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Winogrady, including the Łokietka estate in Piątkowo
*''Umultowo'' – covers the Umultowo neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Naramowice
*''Morasko-Radojewo'' – covers the areas of
Morasko
Morasko is a part of the Stare Miasto district of Poznań, in western Poland. It covers a fairly large but little-urbanised area in the north of the city. To the west and north it borders on the village and municipality of Suchy Las, a developin ...
and Radojewo in the most northerly part of the city
Jeżyce
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of
Jeżyce:
*''Jeżyce'' – covers the old neighbourhood of Jeżyce
*''Ogrody'' – the Ogrody ("Gardens") neighbourhood west of the old neighbourhood of Jeżyce
*''Wola'' – the Wola neighbourhood west of Ogrody
*''Krzyżowniki-Smochowice'' – the two neighbourhoods of Krzyżowniki and Smochowice, on the western edge of the city
*''Sołacz'' – the Sołacz neighbourhood and surrounding areas
*''Winiary'' – the Winiary neighbourhood north of Sołacz (Winiary was originally the name of villages north of central Poznań, which were moved to this neighbourhood in the 1830s to enable the construction of
Fort Winiary
Fort Winiary was part of ''Festung Posen'' ("Fortress Poznań"), a system of defensive fortifications around the Polish city of Poznań.
Origins
Fort Winiary was first constructed under Kingdom of Prussia, Prussian rule in the 19th century. ...
)
*''Podolany'' – the
Podolany neighbourhood north of Sołacz
*''Strzeszyn'' – the
Strzeszyn neighbourhood west of Podolany
*''Kiekrz'' – the
Kiekrz
Kiekrz is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rokietnica, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Gmina Rokietnica, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Rokietnica, Great ...
neighbourhood in the extreme north-west of the city
* (for ''Ławica'' see below)
Grunwald
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of
Grunwald:
*''Święty Łazarz'' – the old Łazarz neighbourhood
*''Stary Grunwald'' ("Old Grunwald") – the heart of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
*''Grunwald Północ'' ("Grunwald North") – the northern part of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
*''Grunwald Południe'' ("Grunwald South") – the southern part of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
*''Ławica'' – Ławica and surrounding neighbourhoods on the western edge of the city; includes
Poznań Ławica Airport (which was in Jeżyce district)
*''Górczyn'' – the Górczyn neighbourhood south of Łazarz
*''Junikowo'' – the Junikowo neighbourhood west of Górczyn, including a large municipal cemetery
*''Osiedle Kwiatowe'' ("Flower Estate") – a residential neighbourhood on the western edge of the city, also called
Plewiska
*''Fabianowo-Kotowo'' – the neighbourhoods of Fabianowo and Kotowo on the south-western edge of the city
Wilda
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of
Wilda:
*''Wilda'' – the old Wilda neighbourhood and surrounding areas
*''Zielony Dębiec'' ("Green Dębiec") – the
Dębiec neighbourhood on the southern edge of the city
*''Świerczewo'' – the residential
Świerczewo neighbourhood west of
Dębiec
Nowe Miasto
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of
Nowe Miasto:
*''Ostrów Tumski-Śródka-Zawady-Komandoria'' – covers
Ostrów Tumski (the "Cathedral Island"), the old neighbourhood of
Śródka and the nearby Zawady and Komandoria neighbourhoods
*''Główna'' – the Główna neighbourhood in the north-east of the city
*''Warszawskie-Pomet-Maltańskie'' – three residential areas north of
Lake Malta
Lake Malta, known also as the Maltański Reservoir,Gołdyn R., Kozak A., Kostka K. 1994. Causes of changes in the water quality of the restored Maltański Reservoir in Poznań. In: Gołdyn R. (ed.) Protection of the water of the catchment area of ...
*''Antoninek-Zieliniec-Kobylepole'' – three neighbourhoods in the east of the city
*''Rataje'' – covers the estates in the western part of the
Rataje area
*''Chartowo'' – the north-eastern part of the Rataje estates
*''Żegrze'' – the south-eastern part of the Rataje estates
*''
Starołęka-Minikowo-Marlewo'' – three neighbourhoods in the south of the city
*''Głuszyna'' – an area mainly of rural character in the far south of the city
*''Krzesiny-Pokrzywno-Garaszewo'' – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city, south of the Rataje estates (Krzesiny is the site of the
31st Air Base
The 31st Air Base ( pl, 31. Baza Lotnicza), commonly known as Poznań-Krzesiny Airport is a Polish Air Force base and military airport, located in Krzesiny, part of the Nowe Miasto district of Poznań.
The base was officially constituted on ...
)
*''Szczepankowo-Spławie-Krzesinki'' – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city south-east of the Rataje estates
Map of osiedles
The map below shows the present division of Poznań into 42 ''
osiedle
Osiedle (Polish plural: ''osiedla'', from German ''Ansiedlung'' meaning ''settlement'') is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its dzielnica, or of a town, with its own council and executive. Li ...
s''.
Population and area data
The following sortable table contains population and area data for the 42 osiedles.
References
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