Since 2011, the Polish city of Poznań

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

 has been divided into 42 osiedle

Osiedle

Osiedle is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision of a city or town, or of a dzielnica, with its own council and executive. Like the dzielnica and sołectwo, an osiedle is an auxiliary unit of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have...

s or neighbourhoods, each of which has its own elected council with certain decision-making and spending powers. The first uniform elections for these councils were held on 20 March 2011.

From 1954 to 1990, Poznań was divided into five dzielnica

Dzielnica

In the Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica is an administrative subdivision or quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council , and those of Warsaw each have their own mayor...

s, called Stare Miasto, Nowe Miasto, Jeżyce, Grunwald and Wilda. These ceased to exist as governmental units in 1990, although they are still used as areas of jurisdiction for certain administrative offices. Some osiedle councils were set up during the years to 2010, but the present division introduced in 2011 is the first to provide a uniform set of units of this type covering the whole area of the city.

Note that the city contains many housing estate

Housing estate

A housing estate is a group of buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country. Accordingly, a housing estate is usually built by a single contractor, with only a few styles of house or building design, so they tend to be uniform in appearance...

s and residential areas whose names include the word "osiedle"; not all of these are osiedles in the sense of the administrative division discussed here.

Former and current divisions

The map to the right shows the former division of the city into five districts called dzielnica

Dzielnica

In the Polish system of local administration, a dzielnica is an administrative subdivision or quarter of a city or town. A dzielnica may have its own elected council , and those of Warsaw each have their own mayor...

s. The names Stare Miasto ("Old Town"), Jeżyce and Wilda are taken from neighbourhoods within those districts (the Poznań Old Town

Poznań Old Town

Poznań Old Town is a central neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called Stare Miasto in Polish .The original settlement of Poznań was on the...

 neighbourhood and the old neighbourhoods of Jeżyce and Wilda); similarly the name Grunwald can also refer to a relatively small neighbourhood within that district. The district of Nowe Miasto ("New Town") covered the parts of the city east of the main stream of the river Warta.

The boundaries of these former districts mostly coincide with boundaries between the post-2011 osiedle

Osiedle

Osiedle is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision of a city or town, or of a dzielnica, with its own council and executive. Like the dzielnica and sołectwo, an osiedle is an auxiliary unit of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have...

s. The present 42 osiedles are listed below, according to which former district they are contained within. Further down the page is a map of these osiedles and a table of population and area data.

Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Stare Miasto:

• Stare Miasto ("Old Town") – covers the central part of Poznań, including the Old Town neighbourhood
  Poznań Old Town
  Poznań Old Town is a central neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the walled medieval city of Poznań. It is called Stare Miasto in Polish .The original settlement of Poznań was on the...
  
   itself
• Stare Winogrady ("Old Winogrady") – covers the southern and eastern parts of the Winogrady neighbourhood
• Nowe Winogrady Północ ("New Winogrady North") – covers the northern and north-western parts of the post-1960s estates in Winogrady
• Nowe Winogrady Wschód ("New Winogrady East") – covers the north-eastern parts of those estates
• Nowe Winogrady Południe ("New Winogrady South") – covers the southern parts of those estates
• Piątkowo – covers the main estates in the Piątkowo
  Piątkowo, Poznań
  Piątkowo is a part of the city of Poznań in western Poland. It consists mainly of large estates of blocks of flats, built from the late 1970s onwards...
  
   neighbourhood
• Jana III Sobieskiego i Marysieńki – includes two estates in the north of Piątkowo
• Naramowice – covers the Naramowice neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Winogrady, including the Łokietka estate in Piątkowo
• Umultowo – covers the Umultowo neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Naramowice
• Morasko-Radojewo – covers the areas of Morasko
  Morasko
  Morasko is a part of the Stare Miasto district of Poznań, in western Poland. It covers a fairly large but little-urbanised area in the north of the city. To the west and north it borders on the village and municipality of Suchy Las, a developing area of suburban housing...
  
   and Radojewo in the most northerly part of the city

Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Jeżyce:

• Jeżyce – covers the old neighbourhood of Jeżyce
• Ogrody – the Ogrody ("Gardens") neighbourhood west of the old neighbourhood of Jeżyce
• Wola – the Wola neighbourhood west of Ogrody
• Krzyżowniki-Smochowice – the two neighbourhoods of Krzyżowniki and Smochowice, on the western edge of the city
• Sołacz – the Sołacz neighbourhood and surrounding areas
• Winiary – the Winiary neighbourhood north of Sołacz (Winiary was originally the name of villages north of central Poznań, which were moved to this neighbourhood in the 1830s to enable the construction of Fort Winiary)
• Podolany – the Podolany
  Podolany, Poznan
  Podolany is a suburban neighbourhood of the city of Poznan in western Poland, located in the north-west of the city. Podolany was incorporated into the city partly in 1933, and partly under Nazi occupation in 1940–42...
  
   neighbourhood north of Sołacz
• Strzeszyn – the Strzeszyn
  Strzeszyn, Poznań
  Strzeszyn is a suburban neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland. It is located in the north-west of the city, to the west of Podolany, from which it is separated by the main railway line running northwards towards Piła...
  
   neighbourhood west of Podolany
• Kiekrz – the Kiekrz
  Kiekrz, Poznań
  Kiekrz is a part of the city of Poznań in western Poland, situated on the northwest edge of the city, adjoining Kierskie Lake. It has several holiday sites and sailing clubs, and a significant amount of mainly detached houses...
  
   neighbourhood in the extreme north-west of the city
• (for Ławica see below)

Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Grunwald:

• Święty Łazarz – the old Łazarz neighbourhood
• Stary Grunwald ("Old Grunwald") – the heart of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
• Grunwald Północ ("Grunwald North") – the northern part of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
• Grunwald Południe ("Grunwald South") – the southern part of the older neighbourhood of Grunwald
• Ławica – Ławica and surrounding neighbourhoods on the western edge of the city; includes Poznań Ławica Airport (which was in Jeżyce district)
• Górczyn – the Górczyn neighbourhood south of Łazarz
• Junikowo – the Junikowo neighbourhood west of Górczyn, including a large municipal cemetery
• Osiedle Kwiatowe ("Flower Estate") – a residential neighbourhood on the western edge of the city, also called Plewiska
  Plewiska
  Plewiska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Komorniki, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Komorniki and south-west of central Poznań...
  
  
• Fabianowo-Kotowo – the neigbourhoods of Fabianowo and Kotowo on the south-western edge of the city

Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Wilda:

• Wilda – the old Wilda neighbourhood and surrounding areas
• Zielony Dębiec ("Green Dębiec") – the Dębiec neighbourhood on the southern edge of the city
• Świerczewo – the residential Świerczewo neighbourhood west of Dębiec

Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Nowe Miasto:

• Ostrów Tumski-Śródka-Zawady-Komandoria – covers Ostrów Tumski
  Ostrów Tumski, Poznań
  Ostrów Tumski is an island between two branches of the river Warta in the city of Poznań in western Poland. Poznań Cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings occupy the central part of the island...
  
   (the "Cathedral Island"), the old neighbourhood of Śródka
  Śródka, Poznań
  Śródka is a historic neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland. It lies on the right bank of the Warta river, opposite the island of Ostrów Tumski where the city's cathedral is situated...
  
   and the nearby Zawady and Komandoria neighbourhoods
• Główna – the Główna neighbourhood in the north-east of the city
• Warszawskie-Pomet-Maltańskie – three residential areas north of Lake Malta
  Lake Malta
  Lake Malta is an artificial lake in Poznań, Poland. It was formed in 1952 as a result of the damming of the Cybina River. It is about 2.2 km long, which makes the lake the biggest man-made lake of the city. The water is 3.1 m deep on average with a maximum about 5 m...
  
  
• Antoninek-Zieliniec-Kobylepole – three neighbourhoods in the east of the city
• Rataje – covers the estates in the western part of the Rataje
  Rataje, Poznań
  Rataje is a large residential area in the eastern part of the city of Poznań in western Poland. It contains a number of housing estates, consisting mainly of prefabricated concrete panel blocks, housing a total of approximately 90,000 people .The former village of Rataje was situated close to the...
  
   area
• Chartowo – the north-eastern part of the Rataje estates
• Żegrze – the south-eastern part of the Rataje estates
• Starołęka-Minikowo-Marlewo – three neighbourhoods in the south of the city
• Głuszyna – an area mainly of rural character in the far south of the city
• Krzesiny-Pokrzywno-Garaszewo – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city, south of the Rataje estates (Krzesiny is the site of the 31st Air Base
  31st Air Base
  The 31st Air Base is a Polish Air Force base, located in Krzesiny, part of the Nowe Miasto district of Poznań. It is the first base to host the recently acquired F-16 fighters....
  
  )
• Szczepankowo-Spławie-Krzesinki – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city south-east of the Rataje estates

Map of osiedles

The map below shows the present division of Poznań into 42 osiedle

Osiedle

Osiedle is a term used in Poland to denote a designated subdivision of a city or town, or of a dzielnica, with its own council and executive. Like the dzielnica and sołectwo, an osiedle is an auxiliary unit of a gmina. These units are created by decision of the gmina council, and do not have...

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