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Orężna

Coordinates: 52°04′13″N 20°59′58″E / 52.07028°N 20.99944°E / 52.07028; 20.99944
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Orężna
Neighbourhood of Piaseczno
Orężna is located in Poland
Orężna
Orężna
Coordinates: 52°04′13″N 20°59′58″E / 52.07028°N 20.99944°E / 52.07028; 20.99944
Country Poland
VoivodeshipMasovian
CountyPiaseczno
GminaPiaseczno
TownPiaseczno
Founded1801
Within town limits1952
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registrationWPI
Primary airportWarsaw Chopin Airport

Orężna [ɔˈrɛ̃ʐna] is a neighbourhood of Piaseczno, Poland,[1] located in the western part of the town, in the Warsaw metropolitan area.

History

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The settlement was established in 1801 under the name Świniary, which came from the word świnia, which means "pig", as the inhabitants were engaged in pig farming.[2] In 1820 it was renamed Orężna after the Polish word oręż, which means "weapon".[2]

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, Orężna was occupied by Germany. In 1944, local man Bolesław Grzywaczewski hid two Polish resistance members in Orężna.[3] The following day, two Ukrainian auxiliaries arrived to find the partisans.[3] The partisans threw a grenade at them, killing, according to various testimonies, either one or both of the Ukrainians.[3] In retaliation, on August 4, 1944, either the Germans or Ukrainians pacified the village, murdering three women, a man and a 5-year-old girl, then captured nine men and one woman and massacred them in nearby Zalesie Dolne (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation).[3]

Orężna was included within the town limits of Piaseczno as its new neighbourhood in 1952.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Rozporządzenie Ministra Administracji i Cyfryzacji z dnia 13 grudnia 2012 r. w sprawie wykazu urzędowych nazw miejscowości i ich części, Dz. U., 2013, No. 200
  2. ^ a b Zając, Dorota; Hofman, Stanisław (2017). Nazwy miejscowe powiatu piaseczyńskiego. Informator krajoznawczy o ziemi piaseczyńskiej (in Polish). Piaseczno. p. 25.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ a b c d "Obelisk w miejscu rozstrzelania przez Niemców w 1944 r. 11 mieszkańców dzielnicy Orężna". Piaseczno.eu (in Polish). Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  4. ^ Rozporządzenie Prezesa Rady Ministrów z dnia 3 maja 1952 r. w sprawie utworzenia i zmiany granic niektórych miast w powiatach warszawskim i radzymińskim, województwie warszawskim., Dz. U., 1952, vol. 26, No. 181