Kabaty forest
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 58 ″ N , 21 ° 3 ′ 25.9 ″ E The Kabaty Forest (also incorrectly: Kabacki Forest , in the Polish original Las Kabacki ) is located in the southernmost district of Ursynów in the Polish capital Warsaw .
Name origin
The full name is Rezerwat przyrody Las Kabacki im. Stefana Starzyńskiego (German: "Stefan-Starzyński-Kabaty-Wald-Naturreservat") after the former mayor of Warsaw Stefan Starzyński . The Polish word Kabacki is the adjective that can be formed in Polish (as opposed to German ) by adjectivating the place name Kabaty . Loosely translated, Las Kabacki would mean “Kabaty forest”.
The name Kabaty forest comes from the formerly independent village Kabaty , which - first mentioned in a document in 1386 - was located here on the picturesque left bank of the Vistula . At that time it covered an area of about 70 hectares. Kabaty was destroyed in the 17th century, like other Ursynów settlements in the vicinity, during the Second Northern War . A wooden cross erected in 1864 is located near the former village of Kabaty.
Location and history
The Kabaty Forest is located in the south of Warsaw today between two southern arterial roads, the Puławska in the west of the park and the Łukasz Drewny in the east on the left bank of the Vistula. Near its western edge, a memorial commemorates the 183 victims of the Kabaty forest disaster ( Polish katastrofa w Lesie Kabackim ), a Polish airliner that crashed there in 1987.
In 1939, just before the German invasion of Poland that sparked World War II , the Kabaty Forest was the scene of a legendary secret meeting of Polish, French and British cryptanalysts .
Web links
- The Kabaty Forest (English). Retrieved March 11, 2016.