Mariensztat

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Mariensztat Marktplatz around 1900
On the right the Pancer Viaduct, in the background the Royal Palace

Mariensztat ( German Marienstadt ) is a Warsaw housing estate, built 1948-1949 in the central Powiśle district as part of the Trasa WZ (east-west route) construction project .

history

The grocer from Mariensztat
sculpture by Barbara Zbrożyna 1949
The Mariensztater market square

The name “Mariensztat” originally sounded like “Marienstadt”. In the 17th and 18th centuries, districts of Warsaw were given names that sounded Italian, French or German. The name "Marienstadt" was given by Count Potocki in honor of his wife Maria.

Before the Second World War there was a connection between the Palace Square (Plac Zamkowy) and the Praga district on the right bank of the Vistula through the old, narrow Kierbedź Bridge and the steeply falling Pancer Viaduct. Both were blown up in 1944. The Warsaw city planners showed imagination and instead of restoring the pre-war state, they designed a road tunnel under the castle square in the middle of the sea of ​​ruins, which was supposed to divert traffic past the old town. The Pancer Viaduct was demolished and a new, wider bridge was built on the pillars of the bridge built in 1859. The east-west route was opened on July 22, 1949. A small settlement with the historical name "Mariensztat" was built next to the route. It was located between the bank of the Vistula and the higher Kraków suburb , between the new route and Bednarska Street. It should be a showcase of the new, socialist living culture. The houses designed by the architects Zygmunt Stępiński and Józef Sigalin , mostly with two upper floors and steep ceramic roofs, met with general acceptance among Warsaw residents.

No conclusions were drawn from the success of the Mariensztat settlement. The next Warsaw settlements were built with the simplest means.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '47.1 "  N , 21 ° 1' 0.9"  E