Chomiczówka is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Bielany.
It is located at the current 64 Wólczyńska Street, within present boundaries of City Information System area of Wawrzyszew.
[5] On 26 August 1794, Wawrzyszew was captured and burned down by Prussian forces during the Siege of Warsaw in the Kościuszko Uprising.
[1] In 1868, the area of four settlements, including Wawrzyszew, was given by Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia, to Alexandr Vladimirovich Patkulov, a general in the Russian Imperial Army, as an award for his service.
In 1909, it was decided to decommission and demolish the fortifications of the Warsaw Fortress, due to the high maintenance costs.
In 1920, they had begun selling plots of land of a suburban residential neighbourhood of villas, named Chomiczów.
Between 13 and 14 June 1943, a division of the People's Militia of the Worker's Party of Polish Socialists had attacked it, destroying portion of the supplies stored there.
[14] Following the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising, between 1 and 2 August 1944, the Polish partisans of the Home Army had attacked the nearby Bielany Aerodrome, which was heavily guarded by German forces.
[20] In the 1970s, there was built a neighbourhood of Chomiczówka, consisting of the multifamily residential large panel system buildings.
[22] In the eastern portion of the neighbourhood, at 76 Księżycowa Street, is located the decommissioned Fort II, which was built in the 1880s by the Imperial Russian Army, as part of fortifications of the Warsaw Fortress.
[1] It borders Wawrzyszew to the north, Old Bielany, and Piaski to the east, Fort Bema to the southeast, Lotnisko to the south, and Radiowo to the west.