The name of Służewiec was first attested in documentation in 1378. It functioned as a small village until 1938, when it was incorporated into the city of Warsaw. It was mostly destroyed in 1944, during the II World War, and initially re-developed as a major industrial district, known as Służewiec Przemysłowy (Industrial Służewiec) in the 1950s. In the 1990s, the industry had stopped being present in the area, with the neighbourhood developing into an office centre, becoming one of the biggest of this kind, both in the city, and in Poland (and that’s why we’ve been referred it colloquially as Mordor for a dozen or so years).

Jakub Paradowski, a city guide, will lead a walk along the most important and interesting (still existing and non-existing) places in Służewiec.

Free admission! No registration required.
The walk will start at 11:00 in front of the main entrance to Westfield Mokotów (from the side of Rondo Unii Europejskiej).

The walk route is based on the Geocaching – a real-world treasure hunt game, which involves finding caches (containers), in historically/naturally/culturally interesting places. As part of the “Historical Mordor” project, 9 caches have been created, most of it will be found during the walk. If you are interested in the event, but don’t know anything about geocaching yet, we encourage you to read the information available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching and sign up on https://www.geocaching.com/

This Walk is a part of the project „Mysteries of Mordor… and it’s surroundings” and is co-financed by the Polish History Museum in Warsaw as part of the „Patriotyzm Jutra” Programme.