Szopy (Warsaw)

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View of the Polish Shoal (Bocheńska Street) from the Warsaw slope

Szopy - a former suburban village, since 1916 within the boundaries of the city in the district of Mokotów, dividing from the 18th century to Polish Shoals and German Szop. Historically Polish Shoals were located in the area of ​​Królikarnia to the south of it, the German Szopy on the opposite side of the later Puławska Street. In the MSI system, mainly in the Ksawerow and Stegien areas.

The gentry village, listed in 1456, since the 17th century, the property of the Order of the Carmelites, after 1795 government property. At the end of the 18th century, the Prussian authorities settled here in the grounds of the German colonists in the Szopy Niemieckie colony, in the village of Szopy Polskie. In 1916, together with the municipality of Mokotów and several surrounding villages included in the boundaries of the city.

In 1898 the Grójec Railway was put into service between Keksholmskie Square (the square at the barracks of the Keksholmskie Regiment, south of the Mokotów Gate at Union Square Lubelska) and Piaseczno, one of the stations was called Szopy. In 1938 the line was withdrawn from Warsaw to Szopy station, and in 1943 the name of the station was changed to the Southern Railway Station. The railway was liquidated at this station in 1969, and now there is a bus stop and a metro stop A-7 Wilanowska.

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