Aniołki (, ;
lit. ''Little Angels'') is one of the quarters of
Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ...
in
Poland
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Location
Aniołki is located in the centre of the city, mainly around Victory Alley. It borders
Wrzeszcz Górny and
Wrzeszcz Dolny in the north,
MÅ‚yniska in the east,
Śródmieście and
Siedlce
Siedlce () ( ) is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants ().
The city is situated between two small rivers, the Muchawka and the Helenka, and lies along the European route E30, around east of Warsaw. It is ...
in the south, and
Suchanino in the west.
History
The name of Aniołki comes from the Church of St. Michael and All the Heaven's Angels, where an old tank currently stands as a statue. The church's ruins were uncovered in 2021.
Near the quarter of
Brama Oliwska, a railway station (built in 1870) functioned that was the main connection to most of Pomerania. Around 1900, the
Gdańsk Główny railway station was built and the station was destroyed.
In 1896, the ruins of a cemetery were removed and replaced with Steffens Park, named after Otto Steffens.
In 1946, the ruins of the Church of St. Michael and All the Heaven's Angels were replaced with a
T-34 tank
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References
External links
Map of Aniołki
Districts of Gdańsk
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