Fabianowo, Poznań — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Fabianowo?

Fabianowo's landmark is the Szachty, the flooded clay pits that brickworks dug out here for Poznań's building boom at the turn of the twentieth century. A viewing tower on a triangular steel plan opened above them in 2018, climbed by roughly 120 steps, with Poznań and Luboń both in view and a boardwalk laid across the water below. The last works closed in the 1990s.

Their shell still stands beside the tower. From ulica Głogowska, ulica Mieleszyńska runs east to reach all of it, while the western half of the quarter keeps the Biblioteka Raczyńskich branch at ulica Fabianowo 2.

What is the history of Fabianowo?

Fabianowo entered the record in 1420, when a Latin document named the village Pabijanowo, a holding of the Poznań cathedral chapter. Visitations counted ten settled łans, some seven kilometres out from the Stary Rynek. Each łan owed oats, four roosters, and thirty eggs by the 1509 return.

No manor farm stood in 1500. The peasants traced the oat levy to Mikołaj Sobocki. A chapter record of 1531 named the neighbours: Komorniki, Plewiska, Żabikowo, Rudnicze, Świerczewo, and Górczyn.

Prussia took the estate in the Second Partition of 1793, and the village stayed outside Poznań, grouped with Żabikowo, until the city took it in 1940.

Where is Fabianowo?

Three streams edge Fabianowo: the Strumień Junikowski toward Świerczewo, the Plewianka toward Rudnicze, and the Kotówka south. Plewiska closes the west, outside Poznań.