Czerniaków | |
Settlement Type: | Warsaw Neighborhood |
Coordinates: | 52.2074°N 21.0511°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Poland |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Masovian |
Subdivision Type2: | County/City |
Subdivision Name2: | Warsaw |
Parts Type: | Notable landmarks |
Parts Style: | para |
P1: | Bernardine Monastery and St. Antony of Padua Church |
P2: | 19th century wooden mansion |
P3: | Mound of the Warsaw Uprising |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | +48 22 |
Website: | http://www.czerniakow.com/ |
Czerniaków is a neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw, located within the borough of Mokotów, between the escarpment of the Vistula river and the river itself.
Called Czerniakowo since the Middle Ages, it was then merely a small village located well to the south of Warsaw's Old Town. In the 19th century the area became densely built-up and became populated mostly by factory workers and other lower classes of society, which gave birth to a specific local version of the Warsaw dialect. During the Warsaw Uprising the area was one of the last Polish strongholds.