Krowodrza 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 ...

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 western part of the city. The name ''Krowodrza'' 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 31 870 people inhabit Krowodrza.

History

The oldest part of the district is Łobzów, originally a village, which is home to a royal palace built in the 14th century and later rebuilt in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries. In addition to Łobzów, the current district also includes the former villages of Krowodrza, Czarna Wieś and Nowa Wieś. All of them were incorporated into Krakow in 1910, after which they underwent significant metropolitan development.

Subdivisions of Krowodrza

Krowodrza is divided into smaller subdivisions (

osiedle (Polish plural: ) is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision or neighbourhood of a city or its , or of a town, with its own council and executive. Like the and sołectwo, an is an auxiliary unit (''jednostka pomocnicza'') of ...

s). Here's a list of them. * Cichy Kącik * Czarna Wieś * Krowodrza * Łobzów * Miasteczko Studenckie AGH * Nowa Wieś

Population

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Buildings

* Łobzów Royal Palace - first built in the 14th century, rebuilt many times since then, now houses the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology * Fort "Kleparz" - part of the Kraków Fortress, built 1856-1859 * AGH University Main Building, designed by Sławomir Odrzywolski and Wacław Krzyżanowski, built 1924-1935 in Neoclassical style * ZUPU tenement house, designed by Wacław Nowakowski and built 1927-1929 in Expressionist style *

Jagiellonian Library The Jagiellonian Library (, popular nickname ''Jagiellonka'') is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library an ...

, designed by Wacław Krzyżanowski and built 1929–39 * Silesian House - built 1932-1937 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 * St Stephen's Church - designed by Zdzisław Mączeński and Franciszek Mączyński, built 1933–1938 * Main Building of the National Museum in Kraków, designed by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, Czesław Boratyński, Edward Kreisler and Bolesław Szmidt, built 1933-1989 in Modernist style * Housing estate for officials of the

General Government The General Government (, ; ; ), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovak Republic (1939–1945), Slovakia and the Soviet ...

on Królewska Street - built in

Nazi architecture Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a Stripped Classicism, stripp ...

style in the years 1941–1943 * Biprostal - high-rise office building built 1959-1965 in the

International Style The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to Functionalism (architecture), functional and Fo ...

, famous for its giant mosaik by Celina Styrylska-Taranczewska on the side wall * Miasteczko Studenckie AGH - student campus built 1964-1975 in modernist style * Radio Kraków headquarters - built 1996-1999 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

Gallery

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File:DomŚląski-UlicaKrólewska-POL, Kraków.jpg, Silesian House File:St Stephen face2.jpg, St Stephen's Church File:GmachGłównyMuzeumNarodowego-Aleja3Maja1-Krowodrza-POL, Kraków.jpg, Main Building of the National Museum in Kraków File:OsiedleUrzędnikówGeneralnegoGubernatorstwa-UlicaKrólewska-POL, Kraków.jpg, Housing estate for officials of the General Government File:Biprostal-UlicaKrólewska57-NowaWieś-POL, Kraków.jpg, Biprostal File:Miasteczko studenckie AGH.JPG, Miasteczko Studenckie AGH File:Kraków, Radio Kraków - fotopolska.eu (255440).jpg, Radio Kraków headquarters

References

External links

Official website of Krowodrza

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