Miedzeszyn is a neighbourhood of Wawer, a district of Warsaw, Poland.[1] Until 1951, it was a separate village.[2]

Miedzeszyn
Neighbourhood
Lawinowa Street in Miedzeszyn.
Lawinowa Street in Miedzeszyn.
Coordinates: 52°10′12″N 21°11′40″E / 52.17000°N 21.19444°E / 52.17000; 21.19444
Country Poland
Voivodeship Masovian
CountyWarsaw
DistrictWawer
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+48 22
Car platesWT

History edit

The village of Miedzeszyn, at the time known as Miedziessin excited as far as 1580, when it was located in Warsaw County, Warsaw Land. Masovian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[3] In 1926, the Włodzimierz Medem Sanatorium for children with tuberculosis, was opened in the village, by General Jewish Labour Bund and CISZO, and operated until 1942.[4] During the Nazi Germany Occupation of Poland in World War II, there was a ghetto for Jewish population, that operated there until 20 August 1942, when it was liquidated.[5] The village was incorporated into the city of Warsaw on 5 May 1951.[2]

Administrative division and borders edit

The neighbourhood is divided into seven parts: Nowy Miedzeszyn, Miedzeszyn Wieś, Elżbietówek, Julianów, Świerczyna, and Zagódź. Its west border is based on the Vistula river, and the east border, on the forests on the hills.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Wawer. Dzielnica m.st. Warszawy". wawer.warszawa.pl (in Polish).
  2. ^ a b Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 5 maja 1951 r. w sprawie zmiany granic miasta stołecznego Warszawy. Journal of Laws, 1951, no. 27, position 199.
  3. ^ Adolf Pawiński: Polska XVI wieku pod względem geograficzno-statystycznym. vol. 5: Mazowsze. Warsaw, 1895, p. 251.
  4. ^ Gertrud Pickhan: Medem Sanatorium. in: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2010.
  5. ^ Czesław Pilichowski: Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939–1945. Informator encyklopedyczny. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979, p. 555. ISBN 83-01-00065-1.