Aniołki (, csb, Janiółczi;
lit. ''Little Angels'') is one of the quarters of
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
in
Poland
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.
Location
Aniołki is located in the centre of the city, mainly around Victory Alley. It borders
Wrzeszcz Górny and
Wrzeszcz Dolny in the north,
MÅ‚yniska
Młyniska (german: Schellmühl) is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland
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in the east,
Śródmieście and
Siedlce
Siedlce [] ( yi, שעדליץ ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants (). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city is situated b ...
in the south, and
Suchanino in the west.
History
The name of Aniołki comes from the Church of St. Michael and All the Heaven's Angels, where an old tank currently stands as a statue. The church's ruins were uncovered in 2021.
Near the quarter of
Brama Oliwska, a railway station (built in 1870) functioned that was the main connection to most of Pomerania. Around 1900, the
Gdańsk Główny railway station
Gdańsk Główny (Polish for ''Gdańsk main station'') is the chief railway station serving the city of Gdańsk, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1900 and is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway, Gdańsk–Stargard ...
was built and the station was destroyed.
In 1896, the ruins of a cemetery were removed and replaced with Steffens Park, named after Otto Steffens.
In 1946, the ruins of the Church of St. Michael and All the Heaven's Angels were replaced with a
T-34 tank.
References
External links
Map of Aniołki
Districts of Gdańsk
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