Grzegórzki is one of 18
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...
of
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
, located in the central part of the city. The name ''Grzegórzki'' comes from a village of same name that is now a part of the district.
According to
the Central Statistical Office data, the district's area is and 28 960 people inhabit Grzegórzki.
History
The oldest part of the district is Wesoła, stretching along Lubicz and Kopernika Streets, which originated as a suburb around St Nicolas' Church on today's Kopernika Street.
Situated next to it, Grzegórzki is a former village, incorporated into Krakow in 1910.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century it was heavily industrialised.
A strike in 1936 at the Semperit factory was bloodily suppressed, resulting in 8 deaths.
In the northern part of the district, mainly along Beliny-Prażmowskiego and Brodowicza streets, the Officers' housing estate was built from 1925.
From the end of the 20th century, the district gradually lost its industrial character and was transformed into an office and residential area. Some of the former factories have been revitalised and transformed into multi-functional complexes, such as Browar Lubicz, Fabryczna City complex and Galeria Kazimierz
Population
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Subdivisions of Grzegórzki
Grzegórzki is divided into smaller subdivisions (
osiedla). Here's a list of them.
* Dąbie
* Olsza
* Wesoła
* Grzegórzki
* Osiedle Oficerskie
Landmarks
* Church of the Immaculate Conception - former
Carmelite
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church, built 1634-1683 in
Baroque
The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
style
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Botanic Garden of the Jagiellonian University - founded in 1783
*
Kraków University of Economics - designed by Tadeusz Stryjeński and
Władysław Ekielski and built 1891-1893 in
Renaissance Revival
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of ...
style
*
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - designed by
Franciszek Mączyński
Franciszek Mączyński (21 September 1874 in Wadowice – 28 June 1947 in Kraków) was a Polish Art Nouveau architect. Prominent by 1910, his commissions include several major churches, and turn-of-the-century civic and cultural institutions d ...
, built 1907–1921 in
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
style with historical motifs
* Krakow Market Hall - built 1937-1940 in
modernist
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...
style
*
K1 Building - skyscraper built 1972-1998 in
Postmodern
Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting the wo ...
style
*
Unity Tower - skyscraper built 1975-2019 in Postmodern style
*
Kraków Opera
The Opera Krakowska (also known as the Kraków Opera) is an opera house located in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1954 in postwar Kraków, although the tradition of opera in the city dates back to 1628 when the first ever full libretto in Po ...
- designed by Romuald Loegler and built 2004-2008 in Postmodern style
*
Galeria Kazimierz - shopping mall built 2004-2005 on the site of the former city slaughterhouse with some of its buildings incorporated into the complex
* Lubicz Brewery - former brewery converted into a multifunctional complex
* Fabryczna City - former distillery converted into a multifunctional complex
* Monument to the Armed Deed of the Krakow Proletariat - commemorating the bloodily suppressed strike at the ‘Semperit’ factory in 1936
Gallery
File:Church of the Immaculate Conception (St. Lazarus), facade, 19 Kopernika street, Kraków, Poland.jpg, Church of the Immaculate Conception
File:Kraków University of Economics, main building, 1887 design. Władysław Ekielski and Tadeusz Stryjeński, 27 Rakowicka street, Kraków, Poland.jpg, Kraków University of Economics
File:Krakow church 20070805 0912.jpg, Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
File:Market Hall, 1937 design. Juliusz Dumnicki, 3 Daszyńskiego Alley, Kraków, Poland.jpg, Kraków Market Hall
File:Kraków Opera house, 2008 design. Romuald Loegler, 48 Lubicz street, Kraków, Poland.jpg, Kraków Opera
The Opera Krakowska (also known as the Kraków Opera) is an opera house located in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1954 in postwar Kraków, although the tradition of opera in the city dates back to 1628 when the first ever full libretto in Po ...
K1(Błękitek)-WidokZPółnocnegoZachodu-POL, Kraków.jpg, K1 Building
File:UnityCentre-WidokOdPołudnia-RondoMogilskie-POL, Kraków.jpg, Unity Tower
File:Former Municipal Slaughterhouse, 1878 proj. Maciej Moraczewski, 28 Rzeźnicza street, Krakow, Poland.JPG, Former city slaughterhouse, now Galeria Kazimierz
File:BrowarLubicz-ZespółMieszkaniowo-Usługowy-WidokNaPółnoc-Wesoła-POL, Kraków.jpg, Lubicz Brewery
File:FabrycznaCity-DawnyKompleksFabrycznyWytwórniWódek-UlicaFabryczna-POL, Kraków.jpg, Fabryczna City complex in a former destillery
References
External links
Official website of GrzegórzkiBiuletyn Informacji Publicznej
Districts of Kraków
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