 Grunwaldzka street in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz, Dec 2003 Wrzeszcz (pronounced:
 ['vʒεʃʧ]) is one of the boroughs of the Northern Polish city of Gdańsk. With a modern population of more than 65,000 in an area of 9.9 km² (population density 6,622), Wrzeszcz is the most populous part of Gdańsk. Gdansk Wrzeszcz, Grunwaldzka ST, December 2003 © 2003 by tsca#sdf. ...
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Motto: Nec temere, nec timide (Neither rashly nor timidly) Voivodship Pomeranian Municipal government Rada miasta Gdańska Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Area 262 km² Population - city - urban - density 460 524 (2004) - Ranked 6th 1,100,000 (Tricity) 1761/km² Founded City rights 997 1263 Latitude Longitude 54°40N 18°60...
The name Wrzeszcz, which is a bit unusual even to Polish ears, comes from the old name of the area, Wrzost, which derives from wrzos, an archaic Polish word for heather. The area of modern Wrzeszcz used to be forest and fields of heather. Heather may be: In botany, the plant Calluna vulgaris, or, more loosely, various species of the closely related genera Erica and Cassiope, low evergreen shrubs (also called heaths). The term is also used to describe land which is vegetated with these plants; In apparel or textiles, interwoven yarns with a...
Historical sources mention Vriezst in 1261 AD, and by the end of the 13th century the Cistercian Monks of Oliwa owned four or five water mills on the Strzyża, the stream running through Wrzeszcz. In 1412 AD, this suburban village was granted to Gdańsk city councillor Gerd von der Beke, an ally of the Teutonic Knights. Cistercians coat of arms The Order of Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black scapular or apron) are a Catholic order of monks. ...
Oliwa (Oliva) is one of the quarters of Gdańsk. ...
Teutonic Knights, charging into battle. ...
Early area landowners included the Bischof family, who held the increasingly residential settlement in the late 16th century and early 17th century, and the Koehne family, which started acquiring possessions in the Wrzeszcz area in 1616 AD. Gdańsk patrician Zachariasz Zappio acquired most of the land between today's Slowackiego and Do Studzienki streets and built a palace there. When King Jan III Sobieski visited the palace in 1677 AD, the little valley where the palace was located was renamed Dolina Krolewska, or King's Valley, to commemorate the occasion. Strictly speaking, in the 17th century the name Wrzeszcz referred only to a small market square, 130 m by 35 m, on what today is known as Aleja Grunwaldzka (Grunwald Avenue). Reign From May 21, 1674, until June 17, 1696 Elected On May 21, 1674 in Wola, today suburb of Warsaw, Poland Coronation On February 2, 1676 in the Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland Nobel Family Sobieski Coat of Arms Janina Parents Jakub Sobieski Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz Consorts Marie Casimire Louise Children...
// Hitorical events Battle of Grunwald - the greatest medieval battle, fought in 1410 near the village of Grunwald Places and geographical features in Poland Grunwald village is a village in Gmina Grunwald, Poland. ...
Between 1767 and 1770, Gdańsk mayor Daniel Gralath made a personal project of turning the two kilometers of old road between Wrzeszcz and Gdańsk proper into the four-lane, tree-lined Grand Avenue, as it was then renamed. Each lane of the avenue was lined by 350 trees imported from Holland, and the entire cost of the project was the immense sum (for the time) of 100,000 guilders. A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ...
Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. ...
In the 18th century, residential construction aimed at the wealthy city folk took precedence. The erected residences were mostly classical style with beautiful gardens and the obligatory tree-lined driveways. By 1804, Wrzeszcz had about 900 residents, most of them working in breweries, distilleries, retailers, and factories making wajdaz (a kind of ash used to bleach cloth).
On December 6th 1807, under French occupation, the [Gdańsk-Prussian] convention ceded Nowy Port, Oliwa, Wrzeszcz, Ostrów, Siedlce, and Hel to Gdansk. Nowy Port is one of the quarters of the city of Gdansk. ...
Oliwa (Oliva) is one of the quarters of Gdańsk. ...
Ostrów is a Polish name for a river island. ...
Coat of arms of Siedlce Siedlce (pronounce: [ɕȋedlʦε]) is a town in eastern Poland with 76,943 inhabitants (2004). ...
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From the mid-19th century onwards, Wrzeszcz grew to become a fashionable and wealthy borough with beautifully decorated city villas for wealthier residents and even spacious accommodation for local labourers. In 1872, Wrzeszcz was joined to Gdańsk by a horse-drawn tram along the Grand Avenue. A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland Volkswagen Cargo-Tram in Dresden. ...
In 1904, the Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) Grand Hall was built, soon followed by the city hospital, which is now the medical academy. The GdaÅ„sk University of Technology or Politechnika GdaÅ„ska, is located in the District Wrzeszcz in GdaÅ„sk, Poland. ...
World War II was relatively kind to Wrzeszcz, as only a few buildings suffered damage. More destructive to the beautiful buildings was the communist regime's postwar policy of eradicating evidence of the borough's wealthy capitalists. Many buildings were intentionally allowed to fall into total disrepair and many owners were evicted and their houses separated into tiny apartments which were then leased to people with no means to maintain them. Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 37 million Civilians 25 million military World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest war in...
Buildings that survived in good repair include the consulates of Germany, China, USA and several other countries, as well as some houses whose owners resisted eviction during the communist era.
The borough is now slowly returning to its former glory. Much commercial activity occurs in Wrzeszcz, and many international firms such as Citibank, ING Bank, Fortis Bank, and Shell chose to locate their offices there rather than in the city center. Chinatown Citibank branch (New York City, USA). ...
ING Group N.V. (NYSE: ING), (Euronext: INGA)is a financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, insurance and asset management services. ...
Fortis is a large banking, insurance, and investment management company. ...
German author Günter Grass was born in Wrzeszcz in 1927, when the area still retained its German name, Langfuhr, and the area is the setting of two of his early novels, "The Tin Drum" (1959) and "Dog Years" (1963). Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (Free City of GdaÅ„sk) on October 16, 1927. ...
The Tin Drum book cover The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. ...
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