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Krzyżowniki, Poznań — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Reed beds edge the Krzyżanka where it runs into Lake Kierskie at Krzyżowniki, a western district of Poznań named for its Hospitaller lords.
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Where to stay in Krzyżowniki
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Krzyżowniki went up as single-family houses on wooded plots, and the lanes off ulica Słupska end at the forest of the western green wedge. Its old village core lies about eight kilometres north-west of the Poznań centre, and that is where the beds are. Buses turn at the MPK loop on ulica Słupska, beside the forest.
The green trail from Golęcin ends here. Stay central if you want restaurants after dark, and ride out for the walking and the shore.
Things to do in and around Poznań
Ranked by global recognition; descriptions from Wikidata (CC0).
Museums & Galleries
1- Shelter of the Mayor of Poznań
Churches & Religious Sites
3- Holy Name of Mary church in Poznań Smochowice
- Saints Cyril and Methodius church in Poznań
- Church of the Epiphany in Poznań
Castles & Historic Sites
3- Pomnik Zdobywców Lotniska Ławica
- Pomnik Bogdana Jańskiego w Poznaniu
- Pomnik Józefa Piłsudskiego w Ławicy pod Poznaniem
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About Krzyżowniki
What are the main landmarks in Krzyżowniki?
Krzyżowniki hides its best-known structure under a villa at ulica Słupska 62. The Shelter of the Mayor of Poznań was cut there at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s as a civil defence command post, some 500 square metres of telephone exchange, offices, and command floor. Its existence stayed secret until 2000, and the first tour groups went down on 13 December 2012.
A cholera cemetery opened opposite ulica Słupska 95 about 1831, served the epidemics that swept Poznań through the nineteenth century, and was cleared after 1949. One pine marks the spot.
What is the history of Krzyżowniki?
Krzyżowniki belonged to the Poznań commandery of the Hospitallers, and the Maltese cross on their cloaks gave the village its name. A Latin document of 1388 spells it Crziszewniky. Excavation has turned up pottery, a whetstone, an iron knife, and animal bones of the ninth to eleventh centuries.
Commanders Olbracht and Bogusz went to law in 1405 and 1406 against Jakusz Prusiecki over where Krzyżowniki ended and Strzeszyn began. Fire had gutted it by 1510. Prussia annexed the village in 1793, the German administration pulled it into Poznań in 1940, and Polish law fixed the city boundary around it on 1 January 1951.
Where is Krzyżowniki?
Krzyżowniki runs north from the airfield at Ławica to Lake Kierskie, with Smochowice along its eastern side and Baranowo over the city line to the west.
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Updated October 2026