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Żerań
Żerań is a northern suburb of Warsaw, Poland, situated in the Białołęka district. It is noted for the Żerań Power Station. The area borders with the Vistula River, the Praga-Północ district and the Tarchomin, Różopol, Konstantynów, Warsaw, Konstantynów and Annopol housing estates. __TOC__ History Żerań was first mentioned in the fourteenth century. The name comes from the old Polish terms "żyr" or "żer" and means "pasture in the forest". In the western side of Żerań is the housing estate Piekiełko at , which includes the Kasztanowa, Płużnicka and Ekspresowa streets. It was founded in the second half of the 19th century along the present Modlińska Street. By 1887, 51 houses were erected here. 58 people were recorded in the 1912 census. The Jabłonowska Railway, which ran to Jabłonna, Legionowo County, Jabłonna in 1900–1956 (with breaks in 1939 and 1944) contributed to the development of the settlement. The railway was instrumental in transporting goods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Białołęka
Białołęka (, lit. ''White Meadow'') is one of 18 districts of Warsaw, located in the northern part of the city. Until October 27, 2002 Białołęka was a gmina. According to the Central Statistical Office data, the district's area is and 92 768 people inhabit Białołęka. History On the fields of Białołęka, one of the battles with the Swedish on July 28–30, 1656 took place. On February 25, 1831 one of the battles of the November Uprising – Battle of Białołęka – took place. * In 1425, the Białołęka village came into being and belonged to the Gołyński family. * During the interwar period, only the ''Różopol'' subdivision was part of Warsaw. * In 1938 Białołęka had 900 inhabitants and belonged to the Bródno municipality. * In 1951 a group of villages (including Białołęka) joined Warsaw as result of the new administrative divisions of Warsaw. * In 1976, during the next border changes, more villages joined Warsaw and the north-eastern border of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Żerań Power Station
Żerań Heat Power Station () is a coal-fired heat power station in the northeastern Warsaw suburb of Żerań, Poland. Built between 1952 and 1956 to Soviet design specifications – with the first turbine becoming operational on 21 July 1954 – it underwent modernisation in the years 1997-2001 when it was taken over by Vattenfall Vattenfall is a Swedish multinational corporation, multinational electrical power industry, power company owned by the List of government enterprises of Sweden, Swedish state. Beyond Sweden, the company generates power in Denmark, Finland, Germa .... It is now owned by PGNiG. The station has a heat generation capacity of 1,561 MW and an electric generation capacity of 350 MW. Żerań Heat Power Station has three flue gas stacks: the tallest of which stands at whilst the other two both reach a height of . References Energy infrastructure completed in 1954 Energy infrastructure completed in 1956 Coal-fired power stations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vistula River
The Vistula (; ) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length. Its drainage basin, extending into three other countries apart from Poland, covers , of which is in Poland. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula (''Biała Wisełka'') and the Black Little Vistula (''Czarna Wisełka''). It flows through Poland's largest cities, including Kraków, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Płock, Włocławek, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Świecie, Grudziądz, Tczew and Gdańsk. It empties into the Vistula Lagoon (''Zalew Wiślany'') or directly into the Gdańsk Bay of the Baltic Sea with a delta of six main branches ( Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa). The river has many associations with Polish culture, history and national identity. It is Poland's most important waterway and natural sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praga-Północ
Praga-North (Polish language, Polish: ''Praga-Północ''), also known as North Praga, Praga North, is a district of the city of Warsaw, Poland, located in the central part of the city. History Praga is one of the oldest districts in Warsaw. Through the centuries, Warsaw's right-bank was an independent town. In 1648 it was granted municipal rights by the king Władysław IV Vasa. It was joined to Warsaw at the end of 18th century. In 1945 it was divided into Praga-North and Praga-South (Praga-Południe). Praga North is a district that survived the Destruction of Warsaw, devastation of war, with three different religions (Catholic Church in Poland, Catholicism, Polish Orthodox Church, Orthodoxy and History of the Jews in Poland, Judaism) peacefully co-existing. A major part of the buildings in this area have preserved its historical origins which makes it one of the best-preserved area of old buildings in the capital. In the district there are many streets which remained undamaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarchomin
Tarchomin is a neighborhood of Białołęka district, in northern Warsaw, Poland. History The village of Tarchomin has been known since the Middle Ages. Its name appears in documents as early as the 13th century. It was a noble village, inhabited by the Jastrzębiec family. In the 16th century it belonged to the Weslów, Zaliwski, and Ossoliński families who erected the Gothic church of St. James (Jakuba).''Encyklopedia Warszawy''. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1994, s. 864. . (in Polish) The Tarchomin estate historically included the villages of Tarchomin, Dąbrówka Szlachecka, Dąbrówka Grzybowska, Kępa Tarchominska and Świdry. In the second half of the 19th century, there was a court residence and several farms in the Tarchomin area. In the 17th century, during the Ossoliński rule, the Mostowski palace and park complex was built near the church. In the interwar period, the village of Tarchomin was part of the Jabłonna commune. These areas were annexed to Warsaw in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annopol
Annopol is a town in south-eastern Poland, located in Kraśnik County in Lublin Voivodeship, in the historic region of Lesser Poland. Annopol has an area of , and as of June 2022 it has 2,335 inhabitants. History Annopol received town rights in 1761, lost them in 1870 and regained on 1 January 1996. Its coat of arms shows St. Anna, the patron saint of the town (the name means ''Anna's city'', from Greek ''polis''). It owes its picturesque location to the Lesser Polish Gorge of the Vistula. Jews began to settle in the town in the early 1600s. 73% of the town's population was Jewish by 1921. Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in 1939, Annopol was occupied by Germany until 1944. During the Holocaust, a ghetto was created by the Germans. Jews from nearby villages and smaller towns, as well as from Kalisz and Łódź, were displaced to the Annopol ghetto. Jews from the ghetto were sent to the forced labor camps in nearby Rachów and Janis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabłonna, Legionowo County
Jabłonna () is a village in Legionowo County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the Gmina Jabłonna, Masovian Voivodeship, Gmina Jabłonna (administrative district). It is located approximately south of Legionowo and north of Warsaw. The town has two major landmarks: the Jabłonna Palace () and the Mother of God Queen of Poland Church () which are situated in the center of the village. History In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, some Jewish soldiers in the Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic), Polish military, distrusted by the military leadership, were separated from their units and imprisoned in a camp in Jabłonna for four weeks before being allowed to rejoin the military. During World War II, from 1941 to 1943, Soviet Prisoner of war, POWs were held captive in nearby Bukowie (now within Warsaw) and Poniatów. On October 28, 1944, German troops were driven out by units of the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
