plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich, Wrocław

Plac Powstańców Wielkopolskich is a city square whose name commemorates the Greater Poland Uprising. Its outline is close to a trapezoid, and it links the Nadodrze and Kleczków neighbourhoods across two city districts. The land here became part of Wrocław in eighteen oh eight.

Then, in eighteen sixty-eight, the construction of the Right Bank of the Oder Railway brought Wrocław Nadodrze station to this area and set the pattern for the square you see now. The railway runs along its northern edge, beyond the viaduct over Trzebnicka Street, while the station occupies the north-western corner. Tram tracks circle the central block and fan out along several streets, making this a major interchange as well as a public space.

Along the southern and south-western sides, the late nineteenth-century apartment houses preserve the dense urban character created around the rail connection. On the eastern frontage stands the former Claassen Foundation almshouse complex, built between eighteen forty-eight and eighteen fifty-two and later enlarged; after the Second World War it became a Ministry of Internal Affairs hospital. Both its buildings and park are protected historic monuments.