Mirów

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Mirów is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Warsaw, administratively attached partially to the borough of Śródmieście and partially to Wola. Located between the modern streets of Solidarności, Jana Pawła II, Prosta and Towarowa, it is located to both sides of Chłodna Street. It used to be a poor suburb until after the World War I. In the interbellum it was gradually built-up with large houses. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising most of the area was razed to the ground by the Germans. After the war it was not rebuilt, and instead a large residential area with Soc-Realist buildings. At the easternmost tip of Mirów, at Plac Żelaznej Bramy there are two Mirów Marketplaces preserved, at the western tip the area used to be delimited by two toll collection buildings (not preserved).