Żerań

An old village belonging to princes, and after Mazovia was incorporated to the crown, the village also belonged to the crown and was located on the Vistula route from Warsaw to Jabłonna, at the Vistula crossing. King Władyslaw IV conferred the village to the Camaldolese Order from Bielany. At the end of the 18th century the village consisted of 10 farms located along the river crossing, while at the beginning of the 19th century, next to the village with about 78 ha. of land, there was already an inn, a manor on about 218 ha. of land and three colonies. From the south Żerań’s rural land bordered with land that belonged to the village and then to jurydyka township Golędzinów in Praga.

Warsaw’s spatial development, located near the Żerań main inland port, at the mouth of the encircling canal to the Vistula and the building of the Heat and Power Plant after World War II, had destroyed the village and settlements. The historic name had been significantly broadened and currently refers mainly to the former Polewizna areas, the old rural Golędzinów lands.