Zielonka is a town in

Wołomin County __FORCETOC__ Wołomin County () is a territorial and administrative division in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The administrative ...

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 ...

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, with 17,398 inhabitants (2013). It is located about to the north-east of the centre 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 ...

. Zielonka borders Warsaw and several other towns of the

Warsaw metropolitan area The Warsaw metropolitan area (known in Polish language, Polish as: or ) is the metropolitan area of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The metropolitan area covers ten List of counties in Poland, counties in the Masovian Voivodeship, with an area ...

Ząbki Ząbki is a town in central Poland with 31,884 inhabitants (2013). It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, just northeast of Warsaw. Location Ząbki is located away from Warsaw city center. It borders Warsaw to the south and west, the cit ...

and

Marki Marki () is a town in central Poland, in the Warsaw metropolitan area in the Masovian Voivodeship, just to the north-east of the Polish capital Warsaw. Marki, a Warsaw suburb, was incorporated in 1967. While by Polish standards Marki is a relativ ...

in the west,

Kobyłka Kobyłka is a town of almost 22,000 inhabitants in Poland within the Warsaw metropolitan area, located right outside of the Warsaw, near Wołomin in the Wołomin County in the Masovian Voivodeship. History Located in a densely forested area, Kob ...

in the north, and

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in the south. It was granted town rights in 1960. In August 1920, the

Battle of Ossów The Battle of Ossów took place in the fields near Wołomin on 14 August 1920. It was a part of a much larger battle on the outskirts of Warsaw during the Polish-Bolshevist War (February 1919 - March 1921). During the day Soviet units managed ...

was fought nearby, as part of the Battle of Warsaw in which the Poles were victorious and repulsed the Soviet invasion. Within the town limits, near the village of

Ossów Ossów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wołomin, within Wołomin County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south of Wołomin and north-east of Warsaw. In August 1920, the Battle of Ossów w ...

, there is a cemetery of the fallen Polish soldiers with a chapel of Our Lady of Victory.

Public structures

* 4 primary schools * a high school * 2

Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...

churches * a sports centre * 4 banks * a large

proving ground A proving ground is an installation or reservation in which technology such as weapons, military tactics and automobile prototypes are experimented with or tested. Proving grounds can be operated by government bodies or civilian industries. The ...

which occupies about 2/3 of the municipality area * 1 Ufnal

Transport

There are two railway stations in the town (Zielonka and Zielonka Bankowa).

Nature

* Długa River * 4

clay pit A clay pit is a quarry or Mining, mine for the extraction of clay, which is generally used for manufacturing pottery, bricks or Portland cement. Quarries where clay is mined to make bricks are sometimes called brick pits. A brickyard or brickwor ...

s * 2

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geologic ...

s * 86 trees registered as

natural monument A natural monument is a natural or cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities, or cultural significance. They can be natural geological and geographical features such as w ...

References

External links

Jewish Community in Zielonka
on Virtual Shtetl Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship Wołomin County {{Wołomin-geo-stub