Wawrzyszew is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Bielany.

[2][3] In the 16th century, Baltazar Smosarski, a physician of the Polish royal court, bought the village of Wawrzyszew.

[4] On 26 August 1794, Wawrzyszew was captured and burned down by Prussian forces during the Siege of Warsaw in the Kościuszko Uprising.

[7][8][9] 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 in 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 a portion of the supplies stored there.

[16] 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.

[23][24] In the 1970s, the Warsaw Housing Cooperative built a neighbourhood of Wawrzyszew, consisting of the multifamily residential large panel system buildings.

Simultaneously, to the south was built the neighbourhood of Chomiczówka, also consisting of the multifamily residential large panel system buildings.

[1] On 25 October 2008 in Wawrzyszew were opened two stations of the M1 line of the Warsaw Metro rapid transit underground system.

[8][33] In Wawrzyszew are located two stations of the M1 line of the Warsaw Metro rapid transit underground system.

It borders Wrzeciono to the north, Old Bielany to the east, Chomiczówka to the south, and Radiowo, and Huta to the west.