Praga (Warsaw)
Praga is a historical suburb that now forms two districts of the Polish capital Warsaw . Praga is on the right bank of the Vistula . This first eastern suburb was not incorporated until 1791 . A particularly beautiful view of Warsaw's Old Town is offered from the Praga bank of the Vistula.
structure
The Warsaw people refer to the historic suburbs that make up today's central districts east of the Vistula as Praga . These boroughs are:
- Praga-Północ (= Praga-Nord ) - including the districts of Szmulowizna , Pelcowizna , Stara Praga and Nowa Praga
- Praga-Południe (= Praga-Süd ) - including the districts of Grochów , Saska Kępa and Gocław or Kamionek
Further meaning
In the broadest sense, all parts of the city east of the Vistula are sometimes (more and more rarely) referred to as Praga . In addition to the actual historical Praga, they include the following city districts:
history
In the 16th century, when Warsaw became the new capital of Poland, the city grew far beyond the medieval city walls of the old and new towns and at that time had a population of over 50,000. Around the same time, new districts and suburbs emerged on both sides of the Vistula. Between 1568 and 1573 the first over 500 m long Vistula bridge was built on 18 pillars - one of the longest bridges in Europe at that time, which favored the expansion of the city development to the right bank of the Vistula, which was called Praga . In 1648, Praga was granted city rights as the first new closed settlement on the right bank of the Vistula, making it the first suburb east of Warsaw. From 1776 the old town was connected to the Praga on the right of the Vistula by another bridge.
Battles for Praga
In November 1794, as part of the Kościuszko uprising, the Battle of Praga took place, which ended in a heavy defeat for the Polish troops and ultimately led to the Third Partition of Poland .
In 1794, what was then the easternmost suburb of Warsaw was the site of the Battle of Praga (also known as the Battle of Warsaw 1794 or the Praga Massacre ), a brutal mass murder of the population following the defeat of the Poles in the Battle of Maciejowice during the Kościuszko uprising by Russian troops . From their point of view, this was done in retaliation for the almost complete destruction of the Russian garrison during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 , in which around 4,000 Russian soldiers were killed. After the attack, the Russians and the subsequent heavy defeat of the Polish insurgents came after the surrender of the capital looting and arson , and ultimately to the murder of more than 20,000 residents of Praga. General Aleksandr Suworow was appointed field marshal by Tsarina Catherine the Great for the capture of Warsaw via this easternmost part of the city .
As a result of the November uprising of 1830 , Praga was again the scene of fighting. In February 1831, during the battle of Wawer and Grochów, there was again great fighting at the gates of Praga, in which the Polish troops held out against the Russians. The soon besieged Warsaw itself was defended from mid-August 1831 by General Henryk Dembiński and the pioneer leader Jan Paweł Lelewel against a superior Russian force under Field Marshal Ivan Paskewitsch . On September 8, 1831, after the Battle of Wola , the Poles had to capitulate to the overwhelming Russian forces, which then invaded Warsaw. The revolutionary army was dispersed, the government and the Reichstag led a short shadowy existence, the Polish insurgents fought until October before they laid down their arms on Prussian territory. Paskevich, made Prince of Warsaw by the Emperor and appointed governor of Poland, began the Russification of the country.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ' N , 21 ° 3' E