Czerniaków Explained

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.