[6] The name of Służewiec was first attested in documentation in 1378, and it functioned as a small village until 1938, when it was incorporated into the city of Warsaw.

In the 1990s, the industry had stopped being present in the area, with the neighbourhood developing into an office centre, becoming one of the biggest of this kind, both in the city, and in Poland.

Its name comes from archaic Polish word służ, which is equivalent to modern służyć, and means to serve.

The name came from the fact, that historically, the area was inhabited by serfs, peasants who served to the local noble families.

Many candidates cite difficulties in commuting, as the main reason for turning down offers to work in the area.

[19][20] In the city is also published magazine Głos Mordoru (translation from Polish: The Voice of Mordor), addressed to the employees of the corporations from the area.

In 2015, its supporters had hung a street sign with the name Mordor in the area, which however quickly taken down by the authorities.

[24] On 12 December 2020, following the petition of local inhabitants, two small streets in the neighbourhood of Służewiec were named in reference to Mordor.

[25][26][27] In Służewiec, at 4 Szturmowa Street, are located the headquarters of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics of the University of Warsaw.

[28] In the area, at 9 Postępu Street, is also located the Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials of the Łukasiewicz Research Network, a national research institute of processing of nonmetal resources, including the manufacture of ceramics and building materials, mineral binding agents, and concrete.

[40] Historically, though the area of Służewiec flowed Sadurka stream, which formed the Służew Valley.

[44] In 1678, Służewiec and Służewo were bought by Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski becoming part of his landed property.

The objective of the fort had been the protection of road leading to town of Puławy, now being the Puławska Streen.

In 1909, it was decided to decommission and demolish the fortifications of the Warsaw Fortress, due to the high maintenance costs.

It was part of the railway line between stations of Warszawa Mokotów and Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą.

[50] During the Second World War, the race track had been captured by the attacking German forces during the Siege of Warsaw.

[51] On 1 August 1944, on the first day of the Warsaw Uprising, the airstrip had been attacked by the Polish resistance participants from the Karpaty Battalion of the Baszta Regiment Group.

Later that day, in retaliation, the occupant forces had executed captured partisans and a group of civilians rounded up in the nearby Służew, on the training race track.

[52] The race track is located at 266 Puławska Street, in the modern boundaries of the City Information System area of Ursynów Północny.

The only surviving historical structure is a small Roman Catholic shrine located at the Bokserska Street.

[49][54][55] It was planned to construct 60 factories and industrial plants in the area, as well as residential buildings for 26 thousand people.

[35] Between 1960 and 1965, in the southeast portion of Służewiec, were constructed the residential neighbourhood of Służewiec-Prototypy, consisting of apartment buildings.

The main architects of the project were Jerzy Skrzypczak, Urszula Ciborowska, Aleksander Łyczewski, and Zdzisław Łuszczyński, from Biuro Projektów Typowych, and Studia Budownictwa Miejskiego.

It then contributed to the development of the business industry in the area, eventually leading to the creation of the biggest complex of office buildings in Poland.

One of the first new investigations in the area was the construction of Curtis Plaza office building in 1992, located at 18 Wołoska Street.

[2] As the area was originally developed as the industrial sector, the residential buildings were not built in the Służewiec.

[1] It borders Wyględów to the north, Wierzbno to the north-east, Ksawerów, and Służew to the east, Wyczółki to the south, and Okęcie to the west.