Psie Pole

Psie Pole ( German: Dog Field ) is one of the five boroughs of the Polish city of Wroclaw ( Wrocław). The district is situated on the banks of the willow ( ger.: Widawa ), a northern tributary of the Oder. The incorporation in the then German Breslau took place in 1928. Prior to field dog was an independent municipality in the district of oil. 1939 3131 inhabitants lived here.

The district includes the hamlets Osobowice, Karłowice, Psie Pole and Kowale, the Wrocław city center, extending north over more than 10 km in east-west direction.

By Psie Pole the highways lead Wroclaw - Oels ( Oleśnica ) and Wroclaw - Lissa ( Leszno ). It also has the stations Psie Pole and Karlowice on the railway Wroclaw - Oels ( ger.: Oleśnica ).

The term " dog box " is attributed to a historical fact: In 1109 the German Emperor Henry V had intervened in Silesia, on the outskirts of Wroclaw his army was but by the Polish king Bolesław III. Wrymouth beaten. According to legend, the battlefield " dog box " was given the name because the imperial army so precipitately fled after his defeat, that not even the dead could be buried and had to be left to the dogs.

Polish Psie Pole was first mentioned in 1206, then from 1281 in Latin caninus campus and from 1305 then German Hundzfelt.

By March 1946 at the camp Wroclaw Hundsfeld German prisoners of war were up to being transported imprisoned in the Caucasus.