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Ołtaszyn (, , ) is a

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located in the southern part of the city. It was established in the territory of the former

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district. Initially a village, the settlement was incorporated into Wrocław in 1951.

Name

Throughout its history, the village was recorded as ''Oltachino'', ''Oltacino'', ''Oltaschin'', and ''Oltaczin''. Until 1937, the Germans called the village ''Oltaschin''. Later, in the

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era, the settlement was renamed to ''Herzogshufen''. For the first post-war years the village was called ''Ołtarzyn''. The current name of ''Ołtaszyn'' has been in effect since the 1950s.

History

Ołtaszyn was first mentioned in 1204, when

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exempted the entire village from paying a tax according to which the village had to give away a cow, pigs or any other cattle. The first church in Ołtaszyn was built in 1238, which burned down in the first half of the 15th century. In 1921, Breslau (Wrocław) was the most densely populated of the major German cities and the development of its nearby areas became a necessity. The early modern estate in Oltaschin was designed in 1921 by

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. On February 22, 1922, a competition was held for the development of the suburbs. One distinguishing feature of Ołtaszyn is that the

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population continued to reside in the area even after 1945. However, they began to move out in the 1950s and 1960s. Ołtaszyn is considered to be one of the settlements in Wroclaw that was

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for the longest period of time. In 1991, after reforms in the administrative division of Wrocław, Ołtaszyn became one of the city's 48 districts.

References

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