Sielce (
Polish pronunciation: ) is a
neighborhood in
Mokotów district of
Warsaw
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Poland
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Sielce is roughly bounded on the North by Podchorążych Street, the East by Czerniakowska Street, the South by Beethhovena Street, and the West by Sobieskiego Street. Its northwest corner adjoins the
Royal Baths Park, also known as Park Łazienkowski, on the southwest side, with two entrances to the park (one from Gagarina Street, and one on Podchorążych).
History
In 1412,
Duke Janusz I gave the dean of the chapter collegiate St. John a portion of land lying in the north of Siedlce (Sielce). It became the property of the church and survived until confiscation by the Prussian government during the
Third Partition of Poland
The Third Partition of Poland (1795) was the last in a series of the Partitions of Poland–Lithuania and the land of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth among Prussia, the Habsburg monarchy, and the Russian Empire which effectively ended Poli ...
in 1795.
A small-sized village (5 fiefs in 1528) together with Czerniakow and Czarnów once constituted a whole.
There was a farm and ''Wójtostwo'' (town), in the sixteenth century a clothier lived in Sielcach.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, part of the land Sielc belonged to
Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
Konstantin Pavlovich (russian: Константи́н Па́влович; ) was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir-presumptive for most of his elder brother Ale ...
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In 1820 he married
Joanna Grudzińska, who died shortly after her husband died in 1831. They left a will in which his Polish estates - including Sielce - were bequeathed to
Nicholas I of Russia
, house = Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp
, father = Paul I of Russia
, mother = Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)
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, birth_place = Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russian Empire
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, who was also King of Poland at the time.
Sielce became a part of Warsaw in 1916. At the same time, the former "Principe" street was renamed Chelmska, "Lazienkowska - Nabielaka," Long "- Iwicka," garden "-Czerska," Shared "- MAGNUSZEWSKI (then Gagarin)," Okopowa "- Cadet.
These changes marked the start of the area's transformation from a rural habitat used for recreation into a more urbanized and industrialized area. The decision to join Warsaw was made by
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, the German governor of then-occupied portions of the
Kingdom of Poland (1916–1918)
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Historical political entities
*Kingdom of Poland, a kingdom existing from 1025 to 1031
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, including Warsaw.
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...
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T. Kondrackis article
*July 1944: Orders for Uprising to begin are given
*August 1944: Most resistance overcome by Germans, Ochota is last to fall. Sewers used extensively by resistance Home Army fighters.
*September: German forces continue pushing outwards from Old Town. Struggle for Czerniakow begins September 12. September 16–19, Germans subdue Sadyba and Sielce areas as Russians begin making bridgeheads across Vistula. September 26, Germans focus offensive on pacifying Upper Mokotow area and clearing out sewers.
1949: a Documentary and Feature Film center is located at Chelmska 21
1953–66: Architectural firm of Zofii Krzymuskiej-Fafius (Szczecin), George and John Zdanowicz Baumiller formed a settlement near the area of "Sielce" by Lusitanian-Czerska-Chelmska-Sielecka streets.
Planning