10th district in Lublin
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 Published On Oct 30, 2022

Tenth - residential district of Lublin. The name of the district comes from a village that existed there before.

Its original name was Tenths, which suggests that it was created by settling a slave population here, organized in the hundredth-tenth system, i.e. forming a "tenth", i.e. groups of 10 slaves - most often prisoners - with a decimal at the head. the type of settlement was related to the activity of princes who needed people to serve their courts scattered all over the country, i.e. the management centers of the ruler's estates, often connected with the stronghold.

There are no written sources about the slave population in the Tenth century, while at the beginning of the 14th century, according to the information provided by Jan Długosz, there were falconers in this village, i.e. people keeping and training falcons needed for princely hunting. The royal village in the times of Jan Kochanowski belonged to his friend, a doctor of medicine and Lublin archdeacon, Jakub Montana. It was immortalized by Jan Kochanowski in one of his epigrams. The meaning of the name is unclear.


The northern part of the district was built as an industrial estate at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Poor tenement houses were built there, concentrated around Władysława Kunicki Street, which is the main, busy artery of the district, leading to Biłgoraj and Przemyśl.


Small-town buildings were built around the tenement houses at Kunickiego and side streets, including small blocks of flats erected in the communist period at Czeska, Spacerowa, Kwiatowa and Wyścigowa streets.

In the interwar period, at Nowy Świat Street, leading from Kunicki to Wrotków, a modern railway housing estate was built, expanded after World War II. South of Nowy Świat, on the so-called of the southern camp, military units were built along with apartment blocks for the garrison, located at the northern end of Xawerego Dunikowskiego Street, near the railway siding.

The main part of the district, south of the industrial estate, was designed as a garden city in the interwar period, which, however, was not fully realized due to the outbreak of World War II. On the other hand, the nature of the garden city is still visible, especially in the street layout of the district. Before the outbreak of World War II, the oldest houses of the garden city were built in the manor-style, in which mainly former legionaries and veterans of the struggle for independence settled.

From the east the border of the district is the Czerniejówka river, from the south the administrative borders of the city and the area of ​​Abramowice, from the west the area of ​​Wrotków, from the north according to the proposed new administrative division - the Bystrzyca River.


The district's main communication route is Kunickiego Street, which was built in the 19th century. In 1931, land was parceled out on the Dziesiąta state property for single-family housing for the Workers' Housing Cooperative and bank employees. This determined the development and character of the southern part of the district.

After the expulsion of the Nazi occupiers from Lublin in July 1944, the Soviet military authorities took local fighters of Underground Poland to the square at the western end of the estate at Nowy Świat, from where they were transported to labor camps in the USSR. This event was commemorated with an obelisk at the meeting point, called Skwer Borowiczan.

Shortly after the war, several massive blocks and a school building were erected on the border of the industrial estate and the residential estate at Kunickiego Street. In the back, at Franciszka Mireckiego Street, social barracks were later located. In the following decades, the estate of detached houses grew from the pre-war part more and more to the south, at the expense of the former village of Dziesiąta.

In the years 1971–1975, at the western end of the district, Pracownicza Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa "Kolejarz" built the Leon Kruczkowski, consisting of six skyscrapers and fourteen liners (streets: Zbigniew Herberta, Błękitna, Młodzieżowa, Róża Wiatrów and Jacek Przybylski). The estate has about 4,000 inhabitants. The administration of the Kruczkowskiego estate also includes two older blocks, formerly communal, bought by PSM "Kolejarz": one at Wyścigowa Street and one at Kunickiego Street.

In the 21st century, the modernization of Kunickiego Street in 2007 consisted in its widening, with the greater part of the road being excluded from traffic, thus narrowing the lane towards Śródmieście. This results in frequent congestion during rush hour. In 2011, Dywizjonu 303 Street was commissioned as an extension of ul. Marginal.

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