Podolany, Poznań — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Podolany?

Fort VI sits at ulica Lutycka, built between 1879 and 1883 to Hans von Biehler's design as one of the eighteen forts of the Poznań fortress ring, and entered in the monuments register in 1983. Its patron is Kazimierz Mielęcki. The Church of Our Lady of Consolation in Poznań came much later, raised on ulica Kartuska between 1970 and 1973 to Jan Kopydłowski's design, a low single-nave hall lit only through its glazed front wall and a lantern over the chancel.

Forty white chestnuts line ulica Janiny Omańkowskiej under protection given in 1986, and Park Leszka Bergera dams the Wierzbak beside ulica Druskienicka.

What is the history of Podolany?

Podolany began as an olęder settlement on the road from Poznań through Winiary to Oborniki, its Polish name first written down in the late 1770s and carried onto David Gilly's map of 1805. The German name was Schönherrnhausen. Railway employees founded a settlement cooperative on the old folwark ground in January 1921, and two years later Jan Rakowicz drew them a garden suburb on the model of Hellerau outside Dresden, three streets fanning from the station square with a lime avenue down the middle.

Poznań took the settlement in 1933. Jan Zbijewski's revisions cut the parkland, the sports pitches, and the library from that plan.

Where is Podolany?

Podolany runs from Strzeszyn in the west to Piątkowo in the east, with Suchy Las along its northern boundary and Winiary closing it to the south.