Śródmieście, Wrocław
Wrocław - Śródmieście or simply Śródmieście is a municipality in the center of the Polish city of Wroclaw; north and northeast of the district Stare Miasto.
General
Since 1990, the smaller districts ( pl. Osiedle ) have gained importance in the Polish local government policy, but a municipality as Śródmieście still possesses some township authorities as its own financial authority ( pl. Urząd Skarbowy ), a health office and a police station.
A part of the district around the former imperial road ( Plac Grunwaldzki ) was not destroyed in 1945 by direct hostilities, but demolished by order of Gauleiter Karl Hanke to build there an airfield within the besieged city (see Battle of Breslau). This time, about 13,000 forced laborers died. From the airfield, only one aircraft is launched, with the Hanke fled.
Today, the Western side of the square with sixteen -storey residential high-rise is built with a shopping center on the ground floor. The plant is popularly referred to as Manhattan. East of the square is the site of the TH Wroclaw partly with historicist buildings in the 1950s, some with high-rise buildings.
The districts Biskupin Sępólno, Szczytniki, Zacisze and Zalesie among the preferred residential areas of the city.
Borough breakdown
The districts of the municipality Śródmieście are ( in brackets the year of incorporation to Breslau):