Służew Explained

Służew
Settlement Type:Neighbourhood and City Information System area
Image Map1:File:PL warsaw służew loaction.svg
Map Caption1:Location of Służew within the district of Mokotów, in accordance to the City Information System.
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Poland
Subdivision Type1:Voivodeship
Subdivision Name1:Masovian Voivodeship
Subdivision Type2:City county
Subdivision Name2:Warsaw
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Mokotów
Subdivision Type4:Municipal neighbourhood
Subdivision Name4:Służewiec Południowy
Unit Pref:Metric
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Służew, historically until 16th century known as Służewo, is a residential neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Mokotów.

Landmarks and transport

Służew has one, central, metro station of the same name on the M1 metro line.

The E30 highway is immediately beyond its southern and south-eastern border. The country's 40% of traffic-handling and main regional airport, Warsaw Chopin Airport (Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie) with its runways running to the south and south-east rather than east-west is 2 km west of its centre.

Amenities

Służew has one main park, Park Dolinka Służewiecka, marking its long southern crescent border with a line of ornamental lakes in its centre along a stream.

Two schools take up spacious sites with many buildings and sports facilities on the straight thoroughfare across the north of the district, Wałbrzyska, a further school (nr. 49) is on this street but without playing fields with many neat buildings arranged around a courtyard by the district's own long streets named after J.S. Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Służew New Cemetery

The important cemetery to Warsaw Służew New Cemetery (Służew Cemetery or Wałbrzyska Street Cemetery) is a partly tree-covered, well-tended site that occupies land approximately of the size of the schools combined and contains the elaborate tombs and ordinary graves of people of the region (Masovian Voivodeship). Notable people include:

Służew Old Cemetery

The Służew Old Cemetery is located next to the presbytery of the St Catherine's Church at the Fosa Street.

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