[2][3][4][5] Wierzbno was established as a small settlement in the 1770s, by Józef Jakubowski, a brigadier in the French Army.

[6][7] In the early 19th century, within the eastern portion of the current area of Wierzbno, Henryk Bonnet, a clerk and a judge, had established the settlement of Henryków, which was originally settled by French people.

[10][11][12] Overtime, the area had developed into a separate settlement, forming the modern northern portion of the neighbourhood of Ksawerów.

They consisted of the multifamily residential large panel system buildings, which at the time, were the tallest, and one of the first, of their kind, to be built in Poland.

The eastern portion of the neighbourhood, contained mostly between Independence Avenue and Puławska Street, consists mostly of low-rise buildings of villas and single-family detached homes.

The monument, designed by Eugeniusz Ajewski, and unveiled in 1985, consists of a glacial erratic rock broken into two parts, with a sculpture of the Kotwica, which, during the Second World War, served as the emblem of the Polish Underground State, and the Home Army.

It is a ligature of the letters P and W, symbolizing term Polska Walcząca, which in Polish, means Fighting Poland.

[25] In the neighbourhood are located two stations of the M1 line of the Warsaw Metro rapid transit underground system.

[28][29] In northeast Wierzbno, on Warsaw Escarpment, in the area of Merliniego Street, in located the Warszawianka sports complex.

[33][34] In Wierzbno, at 31 Racławicka Street, is also located the Monastery of St. Joseph of the Catholic mendicant order of Discalced Carmelites.

[37] In the 1770s, the patch of land was given by king Stanisław August Poniatowski, monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to Józef Jakubowski, the brigadier of the French Army.

[10] At the beginning of the 19th century, Henryk Bonnet, a French-born clerk who served as the State Councillor and the judge in the district court of Warsaw, had bought an area around current Malczewskiego Street, establishing there the folwark-type settlement of Henryków.

[41] In 1900, the palace was inherited by nobleman August Potocki, who, while never living there himself, had accommodated there the less wealthy members of his family.

[10] Overtime, the area developed into a separate settlement, which was named, after its founder, Ksawery, and later, Ksawerów.

[11] In 1840, physician Ludwik Sauvan had opened in Wierzbno the hydrotherapy facility, which used the local water spring.

In 1909, it was decided to decommission and demolish the fortifications of the Warsaw Fortress, due to the high costs of their maintenance, and as such the Fort M-Che was demilitarized and abandoned, and was later deconstructed in the 1920s.

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

[47][48] The major development of Wierzbno begun in the 1920s, and continued throughout the 1930s, mostly in the area between current Independence Avenue and Puławska Street, where were built villas and single-family detached homes.

[50] In 1938, in Wierzbno was opened the Dreszer Park, an urban park designed by Zygmunt Hellwig in the modernist style, and located between current Ursynowska Street, Independence Avenue, Odyńca Street, and Krasickiego Street..[20][21] In 1944, during the Second World War, the park become a defensive point of the Polish resistance fighters of the Warsaw Uprising, mainly from the Baszta Regiment Group, who defended their position from German forces attacking from the north between 2 and 13 August 1944, and from the south, between 25 and 27 September 1944.

[22][51] During the war the park was used as a provisional cemetery, both for the fallen Polish resistance fighters and the civilian casualties.

The complex was, and remains to the present day, a home field of KS Warszawianka sports team.

Its designers were Zofia Fafiusowa, Jerzy Stanisławski, Kazimierz Stasiniewicz, and Andrzej Wochna.

[4] Between 1965 and 1971, in the eastern portion of the current City Information System area of Wierzbno, was built the residential neighbourhood of Skarpa Puławska consisting of eight 13-storey multifamily residential large panel system-buildings, planned to house between 4 and 5 thousand people.

[24] On 7 April 1995, in the neighbourhood were opened two stations of the M1 line of the Warsaw Metro rapid transit underground system.

[1] It borders Old Mokotów to the north, Sielce to the east, Ksawerów to the south, Służewiec to the south-west, and Wyględów to the west.