Czerniaków
Czerniaków | |
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The neighbourhood of Czerniakowska Wschodnia within Czerniaków in 2021. | |
The location of the City Information System area of Czerniaków within the district of Mokotów | |
| Coordinates: 52°12′27″N 21°03′04″E / 52.20750°N 21.05111°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| City and county | Warsaw |
| District | Mokotów |
| Subregion | Lower Mokotów |
| Administrative neighbourhood | Sadyba |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
Czerniaków (Polish pronunciation: [t͡ʂɛrˈɲakuf]) is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Mokotów. It is a residential area with high-rise multifamily housing. The neighbourhood features the St. Anthony of Padua Church dating to 1693, and the Warsaw Uprising Mound, an artificial hill and memorial, as well as the Czerniaków Lake, the largest still body of fresh water in the city.
Czerniaków was founded ik the 13th century, as a small farming community. It was incorporated into Warsaw in the 1916, and in the 1920s, together with nearby Sadyba, it developed as a single-family residential neighbourhood, designed with principles of the garden city movement. In the 1970s, there were constructed high-rise multifamily residential neighbourhoods.