Ławica, Poznań

Ławica
Neighbourhood
Coordinates: 52°24′47″N 16°49′40″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Greater Poland
City	Poznań
City district	Grunwald
First mention	c.1400
Incorporated into city limits	1940
Population  (2010)
• Total	6,312
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	60-XXX
Telephone code	(+48) 61
Vehicle registration	PO
SIMC	1008021
Website	www.osiedlelawica.pl

Ławica, formerly a village, is an official neighbourhood and administrative area within Grunwald, in the city of Poznań, Greater Poland.

History

Its first mention was around the year 1400, where is it was a village within the gmina of Żabikowo (now a part of Luboń).

Since the 20th Century it became a major transport hub especially with the Poznań-Ławica Airport, which was captured by on 6 January 1919 in the Battle of Ławica by the Greater Polish insurgents together with equipment worth 200 million ℳ including; 26 operational aircraft, around 400 dismantled ones, of which about 100 were suitable for scrapping; most of them were later completed and became part of the Polish military air force.

In 1940 the area was incorporated into the city limits. In 1977 the Tor Poznań racing circuit was opened.

Currently it is also a major residential neighbourhood with detached and semi-detached single family homes.

Bibliography

• Włodzimierz Łęcki; Piotr Maluśkiewicz (1986), Poznań od A do Z (in Polish), Poznań: KAW, p. 78, ISBN 83-03-01260-6, OCLC 835895412
• Poznań – plan miasta i okolic 1:20.000 (in Polish), Poznań: Wydawnictwo Pietruska & Mierkiewicz, 2004, ISBN 83-87157-01-5
• Poznań plus 22 - atlas (in Polish), Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Demart, 2008, ISBN 83-7427-206-6
• Poznań - atlas aglomeracji 1:15.000 (in Polish), Poznań: CartoMedia/Pietruska & Mierkiewicz, 2008, ISBN 978-83-7445-018-8