A five-hectare square in the Sępolno estate in Wrocław, with playgrounds, a concert shell and remains of Second World War fortifications.
Warsaw Insurgents Square lies in the Sępolno estate in Wrocław, in the area known as the Great Island. It occupies an elongated, rectangular area of about five hectares and forms the central element of the entire estate's urban layout.
The square is the axis around which Sępolno was designed, an estate drawing on the garden-city concept, its urban layout resembling the shape of the torso of the Lower Silesian eagle. The square is closed at both ends by dominant buildings: a church and a school. At the eastern end stands the Church in Memory of King Gustav Adolf; after the Second World War the building briefly housed the Światowid cinema, before it returned to its function as an Evangelical church. The western end is closed by Primary School No. 45, the former F. Ebert People's School.
The square was laid out on the site of a former clay pit, which was filled in with earth from excavations made during the construction of the Żeglugowy and Powodziowy canals. Before the war the place bore the German name Zimpeler Wiese, meaning the meadow on the Zimpel estate (today's Sępolno), and until 24 March 1948 it functioned as plac Bohaterów.
Playgrounds, a concert shell and sports facilities operate within the square. Remains of fortifications from the Second World War have also survived, including an anti-aircraft trench in the form of a shelter.
The Sępolno estate lies close to Wrocław's biggest natural attractions: about a kilometre and a half away are the Szczytnicki Park and the Japanese Garden, and a little further the Centennial Hall together with the neighbouring Wrocław Zoo and Afrykarium.
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