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Welcome to Kamionek!
Kamionek is part of Praga Po?‚udnie (Praga - South) district of the capital city of Warsaw.
Kamionek, the place of nearly thousand years of magnificent history presently is:
- the host of the UEFA EURO 2012 and the area where the National Stadium is located,
- the area where the Skaryszewski Park is located (the winner of 2009 edition of ?the Most Beautiful Park in Poland" competition and ranked as the third park in Europe in this respect)
- the gem of Warsaw culture, albeit still to be discovered
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Dear Guest!
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You are on the official website of the self-government and neighbourhood of Kamionek.
Here you will find basic information about Kamionek.
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Credits:
The English version of the site has been translated pro bono by translators living and working in Kamionek: Dorota Jankowska-Lamcha and Krzysztof Stasiak
Thank you!
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Why we put information about Kamionek in foreign languages?
Because in the nearest future we expect arrival of thousands of tourists and fans who are to attend the EURO 2012 and because the past of Kamionek is international. History is closely intertwined with the present here. A number of historic landmarks and beautiful, vast recreation areas adjoin several interesting new developments.
?Kamionek ? a tiny part of the great Europe?
Location
Kamionek is part of Warsaw located on the right bank of the river Vistula.
It takes only 10 minutes to get to the city centre from Kamionek.
A brief history and key facts
First settlement occurred around 4000 BC (Palaeolithic).
The first written mention about Kamionek comes from 1065. Kamionek (Camen in Latin) was at that time the place of trade and a river crossing point.
Kamionek is associated with the beginning of democracy in Poland - the first free election of the king took place here in 1573. European dynasties competed to win the throne of Poland.
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The candidates were Ernest Habsburg (son of the Emperor of Austria), Henry Valois from dynasty of France, Ivan the Fourth the Terrible (Tsar of Russia) and John Vasa the Third (King of Sweden and Duke of Finland). The Polish gentry gathered on the fields of Kamionek in 1573 and elected Henry de Valois.
During the election of 1573, the first constitution was adopted on the fields of Kamion (while the Constitution of the United States of America, generally recognized as the first one worldwide, was signed 220 years later and Poland's Constitution of May 3 as late as 1791).?
One more election was held in Kamionek. In 1733 Frederick Augustus the Second, Prince Elector of Saxony was elected as Augustus the Third, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
In 1656, on fields of village Kamion the Poles fought a battle to defend Warsaw against the advancing Swedish army. Soldiers killed in battle were buried at the local cemetery.
1781 - Prince Stanislaw Poniatowski established the town Kamion.
1794 ? ?Praga Massacre? took place after the battle in defence of Warsaw during the Kosciuszko Insurrection. Kamion was almost completely destroyed then. Many defenders lost their lives, among them Polish generals, a group of Lithuanian youth and soldiers of the Jewish regiment under the command of Berek Joselewicz. After defeating the defenders, the Russian field marshal Alexander Suvorov ordered to raze the whole district and murder all the inhabitants. The victims were buried at the local cemetery.
1807 - during the campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the church in Kamionek was demolished, for strategic purposes.
1864 ? Railway reaches Kamionek: construction of Terespolska Rail Station begins (currently Warsaw Eastern Station)
1890 - Kamionek was administratively attached to the city of Warsaw.
Nineteenth and early twentieth century - Kamionek becomes a very important industrial center.
1920 - In the chapel in Kamionek Father Ignatius Skorupko celebrated the last holy service before the battle of Warsaw during the war against Bolsheviks. The victorious battle, known also as the ?Miracle on the Vistula?, is mentioned among the eighteen most important battles in the World, for it is believed that the battle saved Western Europe from Bolshevism.
1939 - 1944 - Kamionek and the neighbouring Groch?w were destroyed during the Second World War. General Stanislaw Sosabowski, who later earned a fame for his contribution to the allied Market-Garden Operation - ?a Bridge too far? - was active in this area early in the war.
1968 -? Ryszard Siwiec burned himself publicly at the Stadium of the Decade in protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1983 - Pope John Paul II celebrated a holy service at the Stadium of the Decade.
1996 - Queen Elisabeth II visited Kamionek and paid homage to the British airmen in the Park Skaryszewski at the obelisk unveiled in 1988 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
2002 ? President Aleksander Kwa?›niewski unveils in Kamionek a monument commemorating the victims of September 11th attack.
2005 ? Kamionek hosts several staged battles which involved hundreds of enthusiasts from Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus and other countries.
2005 ? President Lech Kaczy?„ski announces the winners of a contest for the best Customer Service Department at the City Hall of Kamionek.
2007 - Michel Platini announces that the organization of the UEFA EURO 2012 TM has been entrusted to Poland and Ukraine. Polish authorities decide to erect a new National Stadium on territory of Kamionek, replacing the old Stadium of the Decade, which since 1989 has served as a marketplace ? perhaps the most famous and largest one in Europe, so called EUROPE Fair, often referred to as ?Rusky Market?.
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December 2010 ? Presidents of Poland and Russia - Bronis?‚aw Komorowski and Dmitry Medvedev - make a secret trip to the Soho Factory Club in Kamionek to attend a? performance of Vladimir Vissotsky's songs.
November 2011 - National Stadium completed.
June 8, 2012 ? UEFA EURO 2012 TM, opening ceremony. The beginning of competition for Henri Delaunay Cup and the title of European Football Champion.??
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