Mokotów () is a district of

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, the

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. It is densely populated, and hosts many companies and foreign embassies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''

Służewiec Przemysłowy Służewiec Przemysłowy, originally known as the Industrial and Storage District of Służewiec, is a Districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Mokotów and Ursynów, within ...

''), while the majority is full of parks and green areas ( Mokotów Field). Although the area has been populated at least since the early

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, Mokotów was not incorporated into

until 1916. The origins of the area's name are unclear, first appearing as the village of Mokotowo in documents from the year 1367. It is hypothesised to have come from the name of a German owner of the village, who called himself Mokoto or Mokot, although no exact reference to such an individual has been found in historical records. In the 18th century, Moktów developed as a place where mansions, villas and palaces of the magnates and wealthy bourgeoisie were built. However, most of the area was urbanised and redeveloped throughout the 1930s in the style of

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. The majority of buildings survived

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, making it one of the few well-preserved pre-war areas of

Mokotów Prison Mokotów Prison (, also known as ''Rakowiecka Prison'') is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. It was built by the Russians in the final years of the foreign Partitions of Poland. During the Nazi Ge ...

is located within the borough. Residential real estate in Mokotów, particularly in the neighbourhoods of Stary Mokotów and Wyględów, ranks among the most expensive in Warsaw.

Subdivisions

Administrative units

The following lower-level administrative units (''

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'') are established within Mokotow (they do not cover the whole district). * Sadyba * Służewiec Południowy ( Southern Sluzewiec) * Wierzbno

Subdivisions

City Information System

Administratively defined in 1996, this district is divided into following areas: * Stary Mokotów * Sielce * Czerniaków * Siekierki * Augustówka * Sadyba * Stegny * Wierzbno * Ksawerów * Służew * Służewiec * Wyględów

Historical

While the following subdivisions have no formal, administrative status, they are recognised in everyday life. *Górny Mokotów ( Upper Mokotow) ** Stary Mokotów ** Wierzbno ** Ksawerów ** Wyględów ** Królikarnia ** Służew ** Służewiec **

*Dolny Mokotów ( Lower Mokotow) ** Sielce ** Czerniaków ** Siekierki ** Augustówka ** Stegny ** Sadyba

Architecture

* Church of St. Anthony of Padua - designed by Tylman van Gameren, built 1690–1693 in

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style * Królikarnia Palace - designed by Domenico Merlini, built 1782–1786 in Neoclassical style * Szuster Palace - initially designed by Efraim Szreger and built 1772-1774 in Neoclassical style, rebuilt 1845 and 1853 by Enrico Marconi and Adam Idźkowski in

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

style * SGH Warsaw School of Economics - designed by Jan Koszczyc Witkiewicz and built 1926–1955 in Expressionist style * Wedel tenement house - designed by Juliusz Żórawski and built in 1936 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 * National Geological Institute - designed by Marian Lalewicz and built 1925–1930, extendet by Marek Leykam in 1949–1955 * Iluzjon Cinema - designed by Mieczysław Piprek and built 1949–1950 in

style * Mausoleum of the Soviet Soldiers Cemetery - designed by Bohdan Lachert and Władysław Niemirski and built 1949–1950 *

Polish Television Television in Poland was Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, introduced on an experimental basis in 1937. It was state owned, and was interrupted by the Second World War in 1939. Television returned to Poland in 1952 and for ...

headquarters - designed by Czesław Bielecki and Atelier d'Architecture – Karczewski & Bernier and built 2001–2008 in

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style

Gallery

File:Kościół św. Antoniego Padewskiego w Warszawie 2019.jpg, Church of St. Anthony of Padua File:Królikarnia w Warszawie 2023.jpg, Królikarnia Palace File:Palace ensemble Sielce DSC 2389.JPG, Sielce Mansion on Cybulskiego Street File:Pałac Szustra strona zachodnia.jpg, Sztuster Palace File:SGH Warsaw 2023 aerial.jpg, SGH Warsaw School of Economics File:Dom Wedla przy ul. Puławskiej w Warszawie 2020.jpg, Wedel tenement house File:Kino Iluzjon 01.jpg, Iluzjon Cinema File:Cmentarz Mauzoleum Zolnierzy Radzieckich Warsaw 2022 aerial.jpg, Mausoleum of the Soviet Soldiers Cemetery File:Siedziba Telewizji Polskiej w Warszawie 2017.jpg,

headquarters File:Poranne mgły na działkach na Augustówce w Warszawie.JPG, Allotment plots on Augustówka and part of Czerniakowskie Lake

References

External links

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