Muranów

Muranów, crossroads of Anielewicza and Andersa streets

Muranów is a neighborhood consisting mainly of housing estates in the districts of Śródmieście and Wola in Warsaw founded in the 17th century. The name derived from the palace belonging to Józef Bellotti, a Venetian architect. The name of the estate comes from an island of Murano.

Muranow is a unique district, not only from Polish perspective, since the only housing estate in the world located—intentionally—on the rubble of Warsaw Ghetto and built from this rubble. The only one urbanistic concept from '50s of such a scale in the capital of Poland, whose architects, inspired mostly by pre-war modernism, also took a lot from socialist realism.

In the Interwar period, the district was inhabited mostly by Jews — because of that the Warsaw Ghetto has been located here by occupying Germans. After uprising in 1943 commanded by Mordechaj Anielewicz the district has been completely destroyed. A few buildings have survived the war. Rebuilt after war in style of socrealism.

In the future, Warsaw Metro stations Muranów (crossroads of Anielewicz and Anders streets) and Museum of History of Polish Jews are to be built.

External links

• http://www.stacjamuranow.art.pl/