Muranów
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.png) Location of Muranów neighborhood (red) in the District of Śródmieście, Warsaw (navy blue) |
Muranów is a neighborhood consisting mainly of housing estates in the districts of Śródmieście and Wola in Warsaw. It was founded in the 17th century. The name is derived from the palace belonging to Józef Bellotti, a Venetian architect. The name of the estate comes from the island of Murano.[1]
In the Interwar period, the district was inhabited mostly by Jews. Because of this, the Warsaw Ghetto was set up there in 1940 by the occupying Germans. After the uprising in 1943 commanded by Mordechaj Anielewicz, the district was completely destroyed. Only the sparse few buildings survived the war. The district was rebuilt after the war.
Muranów today
Modern Muranow is a unique district, not only from the Polish perspective, since it is the only housing estate in the world located — intentionally — on the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto and built in most part from this reconditioned rubble. It is the only urban design of such a scale in the capital of Poland from the 1950s, whose architects, inspired mostly by the pre-war modernism, also took a lot from socialist realism of the postwar reconstruction period, based on doctrine enforced by the pro-Soviet communist government.
In April 2013, the Museum of History of Polish Jews was opened at 6 Anielewicza Street.