Przegorzały – a district in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 (Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

), located 6.5 kilometres (4 mi) west of the city centre. Originally a separate village, it was first mentioned in 1162 as the property of the Norbertine Sisters

Premonstratensian

The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons , are a Catholic religious order of canons regular founded at Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg...

. Przegorzały was incorporated into the city of Kraków by the Nazi occupiers in 1941. Today, it is an outlying part of the Zwierzyniec District, but thanks to several nature reserves Przegorzały has retained a semi-rural character.
Przegorzały is at the edge of the Wolski Woods, east of Bielany and west of the Kościuszko Mound

Kosciuszko Mound

Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected by Cracovians in commemoration of the Polish national leader Tadeusz Kościuszko, is an artificial mound modeled after Kraków's prehistoric mounds of Krak and Wanda. A serpentine path leads to the top, approx. above sea level, with a panoramic view of...

, overlooking the Vistula

Vistula

The Vistula is the longest and the most important river in Poland, at 1,047 km in length. The watershed area of the Vistula is , of which lies within Poland ....

 river.


During the Nazi occupation 1939-1945, over a thousand people (largely ethnic Poles accused of involvement in resistance against the Nazis) are believed to have been executed in Przegorzały at the spot known as http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/~plok/sowiniec/php/3_p_podziemna.php?ID3=156&username=&s=1&sort=OPS|Glinik.



The most famous building in Przegorzały is the so-called "Castle" and adjacent "Bastion". What is now known as the "Bastion" was built by the Polish Art Historian Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz was a Polish architect and conservator of monuments. Between 1902 and 1909, he studied in Sankt Petersburg, later also in Austria in Germany. In 1910 Szyszko-Bohusz began lecturing at the Jagiellonian University and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow...

 as his own residence in the 1920s, naming it "Belvedere" after the beautiful view. The occupying Nazis confiscated that building and added the larger "Schloss Wartenberg" as a residence for Otto Wächter

Otto Wächter

The Baron Otto Gustav von Wächter , was an Austrian lawyer and later German SS officer and National Socialist official...

 and Luftwaffe officers. Currently, they house the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University

Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University

Institute of European Studies – a unit of the Jagiellonian University, having its roots in the Inter-Faculty Department for European Studies which was founded in 1993...

and a restaurant.