Wiktoryn 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 ...

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

Włochy Włochy () is one of the districts of Warsaw, located in the south-western part of city. Włochy borders districts Bemowo and Wola from the north, Ochota and Mokotów from the east, and Ursus and Ursynów from the south. It is one of 3 neigh ...

, in the City Information System area of Stare Włochy.

History

Wiktoryn was established in the 1880s, under the name of ''Wiktorya''. It was a small

folwark ''Folwark'' is a Polish word derived from the German ''Vorwerk''. A Folwark or Vorwerk is an agricultural estate or a separate branch operation of such an estate, historically a serfdom-based farm and agricultural enterprise (a type of latif ...

-type settlement, located to the south-east from

, to the north from the Fort V, and to the south from Szczęśliwice, and Zosin. In the late 19th century, it had an area of 151

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, square metres (), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. ...

s (1.51 km² or 0.58 sq mi), and a population of 33 people. In 1931, Wiktoryn had 12 households placed along the current Czereśniowa Street. In 1932, the railway tracks of the Electric Commuter Railway line were built upon its borders connecting

with

. Wiktoryn had been incorporated into the city of

on 15 May 1951.
Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 5 maja 1951 r. w sprawie zmiany granic miasta stołecznego Warszawy.
'. In: ''Dziennik Ustaw z 1951 roku'', no. 27, position 199. Warsaw. 1951. (in Polish).

References

{{reflist Neighbourhoods of Włochy Populated places established in the 1880s Former villages in Poland