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District of
Wrocław
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, map_caption = Location of Muchobór Mały within Wrocław
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Voivodeship
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Lower Silesian
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County/City
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Wrocław
, established_date = 1928
, established_date1 = 1991
, established_title = Incorporated into the city
, established_title1 = Established the modern-day district
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, population_total = 7586
, population_as_of = 2022
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CET
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Osiedle Muchobór Mały
Muchobór Mały (, , ) is a
district in
Wrocław located in the western part of the city. It was established in the territory of the former
Fabryczna district.
Initially a village, the settlement was incorporated into Breslau (Wrocław) in 1928.
Name
The name ''Muchobor'' (without distinguishing between Mały and
Wielki) was first mentioned in 1155.
The name is derived from a combination of two Polish words – mucha''
' ('fly') and ''bór'' ('conifer forest').
Muchobór Mały was first mentioned in Latin in 1311 as ''Mochbor Parvum'', and in 1405 as ''Mochebor Minor''.
Heinrich Adamy's work on place names in
Silesia, published in 1888 in Breslau, lists ''Muchobor'' as the oldest place name, giving it the meaning ''Fliegenwald'' ('forest of flies'). The name of the village was later phonetically
Germanized
Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationalism went hand in hand. In ling ...
to ''Mochbern'' and lost its original meaning.
History
First records of Muchobór Mały date back to 1193. In 1311, by virtue of a document issued by
Pope Innocent III, it was transferred to the ownership of the
Augustinian Augustinian may refer to:
*Augustinians, members of religious orders following the Rule of St Augustine
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congregation at the
Church of St Mary on the Sand
The Church of St. Mary on the Sand ( pl, Kościół Najświętszej Marii Panny na Piasku, german: Kirche Unserer lieben Frau auf dem Sande, Sandkirche) is a Catholic church in Wrocław, in Silesia, located on a small island in the Oder River, in ...
in Wrocław. The Augustinians held possession of the settlement until the secularization of monastic property in Prussia in 1810.
In 1874, a railroad station was built and put into service in Klein Mochbern. In 1928, the settlement was incorporated to Breslau as a dynamically developing worker-industrial district.
On April 1, 1945, the district was captured by the
Red Army.
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In 1991, after reforms in the administrative division of Wrocław, Muchobór Mały became one of the city's 48 districts.
References
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Districts of Wrocław