Łęczyca is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

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 ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, located within the district of

Ursynów Ursynów () is a district of the city of Warsaw, Poland. It has an area of 43.79 km2 (16.88 sq mi), and in 2023, it was inhabited by 149,775 people, making it the 5th most populous and 3rd largest district of the city. Located in its western ...

, within the City Information System area of Skarpa Powsińska.'' tp://91.223.135.109/prng/PRNG_MIEJSCOWOSCI_XLSX.zip PRNG – nazwy miejscowośmunicipal'. Main Office of Geodesy and Cartography, 30 July 2020. (in Polish) It is a small single-family housing neighbourhood, centred of Prawdziwka Street. It forms the municipal neighbourhood of Prawdziwka.

History

By 1933, Łęczyca was a village within the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of Jeziorna.
Warszawski Dziennik Wojewódzki: dla obszaru Województwa Warszawskiego
'. Warsaw: Warsaw Voivodeship Office, 1933, no. 14, position 136. (in Polish) On 15 May 1951, it was incorporated into the city of

. In 1974, to its east was established the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden – Powsin Centre for Biological Diversity Conservation, with an area of 40 ha. It was developed between 1978 and 1990.Piotr Bielawski, ''Ogród botaniczny w Powsinie – plan ogrodu z przewodnikiem''. Warsaw: Agencja REGRAF, ISBN 978-83-61042-24-2. (in Polish) In 1996 was established the municipal neighbourhood of Prawdziwka, located between Prawdziwka Street, Muchomora Street,

Kabaty Woods The Stefan Starzyński Kabaty Woods Nature Reserve () is a woodland park located in southern Warsaw, between two major arteries, Puławska Street, Warsaw, Puławska and Łukasz Drewny Streets. Administratively the park belongs to southern Warsaw ...

, and field near them, which included Łęczyca. It became a subdivision of the

of Warsaw-Ursynów, which was replaced by the city district of

in 2002. The neighbourhood status was reconfirmed in 2013. It is governed by an elected neighbourhood council.

Characteristics

Łęczyca is a small single-family neighbourhood, located between Prawdziwka Street and Muchomora Street.
Studium uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego miasta stołecznego Warszawy ze zmianami
'. Warsaw: Warsaw City Council, 1 March 2018, pp. 10–14. (in Polish) It forms the municipal neighbourhood of Prawdziwka, with boundaries determined by Prawdziwka Street, Muchomora Street,

, and field near them. It has the total area of 54 ha. It is governed by an elected neighbourhood council To its east, at 2 Prawdziwka Street is located the Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden – Powsin Centre for Biological Diversity Conservation, which has an area of 40 ha, and includes over 10,000 species of plants in its collection, including numerous exotic and rare examples. It is also a research facility of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

.M. Szymańczyk, D. Matynia (editors): ''Ogrody botaniczne i arboreta Polski''. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo PAN OB-CZRB, 2020, p. 169. ISBN 978-83-938900-7-1. (in Polish)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Leczyca, Warsaw Neighbourhoods of Ursynów Former villages in Poland