Bielany Wrocławskie (german: Bettlern, in years 1945-46 ''Strzeżawin'') is a village in the administrative district of Council

Gmina Kobierzyce __NOTOC__ Gmina Kobierzyce is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Wrocław County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the village of Kobierzyce. The gmina covers an area of , and as of 2019 its total populati ...

, within

Wrocław County __NOTOC__ Wrocław County ( pl, powiat wrocławski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local go ...

Lower Silesian Voivodeship Lower Silesian Voivodeship, or Lower Silesia Province, in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. The voivodeship was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Wrocław, Legnica, Wałbrz ...

, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

for a brief time, although in more than a millennium-long history of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

it was Polish for the most of the time.

Village layout

It lies approximately south-west of the

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

centrum, at the Wrocław border.

Demography

According to the council data from 30.06.2017 village had a population of 3,708. It is part of the larger

Wrocław metropolitan area The Wrocław metropolitan area is a monocentric agglomeration in the south-western part of Poland, in the Lower Silesian Voivodship, consisting of the city of Wrocław (a global Gamma-level metropolis) and its satellite towns. The population livin ...

Transport

The A4 motorway and national routes 5 and 8 meet at a cloverleaf junction at Bielany Wroclawskie. In the resort, near the border with

is the largest

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

in Poland.

References

Villages in Wrocław County {{DEFAULTSORT:Bielany Wroclawskie