Pyry

Pyry [' pɨrɨ ]? / I is a part of the Warsaw municipality Ursynów. The formerly independent municipality located in the south of the Polish capital about halfway between the Warsaw city center and about 30 kilometers from Warsaw distant neighboring town Piaseczno at the Puławska Street (Polish: ulica Puławska ), the southern exit road of Warsaw. East of Pyry extends the large-scale forest area of ​​Kabaty forest.

History

Pyry was probably founded in the 14th century and has been long in the possession of Służewski family. The community itself was given its rural character until the 1990s. The inhabitants were mostly farmers or factory workers in Warsaw. More recently, the area is becoming increasingly urbanized and is increasingly becoming a preferred residential area for wealthy Warsaw, which can build their villas here.

Pyry now enjoys worldwide fame by a (then) top-secret meeting English, French and Polish cryptanalysts, which on 24 and 25 July 1939, shortly before the German invasion of Poland, which triggered the Second World War, took place in the forest near Pyry. In view of the impending danger, the Polish Biuro Szyfrów decided ( German: " cipher bureau" ), his knowledge about the Entzifferungsverfahren the German rotor cipher machine ENIGMA, with the German military their radio messages encrypted to hand over to his British and French allies. 52.11666666666721.016666666667Koordinaten: 52 ° 7 ' N, 21 ° 1' O