Służew, historically until 16th century known as Służewo, is a residential

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 ...

, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of

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 ...

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, located within the district of

Mokotów Mokotów () is a district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It is densely populated, and hosts many companies and foreign embassies. Only a small part of the district is lightly industrialised (''Służewiec Przemysłowy''), while the majori ...

Landmarks and transport

Służew has one central metro station of the same name on the M1 metro line. The E30 highway is immediately beyond its southern and south-eastern border. The country's 40% of traffic-handling and main regional airport,

Warsaw Chopin Airport Warsaw Chopin Airport (, ) is an international airport in the Włochy district of Warsaw, Poland. It is the busiest airport in Poland and the 28th busiest airport in Europe with 21.3 million passengers in 2024, handling approximately 40% of ...

(Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie) with its runways running to the south and south-east rather than east-west is 2 km west of its centre.

Amenities

Służew has one main park, Park Dolinka Służewiecka, marking its long southern crescent border with a line of ornamental lakes in its centre along a stream. Two schools take up spacious sites with many buildings and sports facilities on the straight thoroughfare across the north of the district, Wałbrzyska, a further school (nr. 49) is on this street but without playing fields with many neat buildings arranged around a courtyard by the district's own long streets named after J.S. Bach and

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: *Szkoła Podstawowa nr. 46 *Szkoła Podstawowa nr. 107 *Szkoła Podstawowa Niepubliczna nr. 49

Służew New Cemetery

The important cemetery to Warsaw Służew New Cemetery (Służew Cemetery or Wałbrzyska Street Cemetery) is a partly tree-covered, well-tended site that occupies land approximately of the size of the schools combined and contains the elaborate tombs and ordinary graves of people of the region (

Masovian Voivodeship Masovian Voivodeship or Mazowieckie Province (, ) and any variation thereof, is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in east-central Poland, containing Poland's capital Warsaw. Masovian Voivodeship has an area of and had a 2019 po ...

). Notable people include: * Waldemar Baszanowski, Olympic gold medallist (1964, 1968) and winner of five World Championships and five silver medals, a total of 10, more than any other weightlifter to date.

Służew Old Cemetery

The Służew Old Cemetery is located next to the presbytery of the St Catherine's Church at the Fosa Street.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sluzew Neighbourhoods of Mokotów Garden suburbs