Since 2011, the Polish city of Poznań has been divided into 42 osiedles or neighbourhoods, each of which has its own elected council with certain decision-making and spending powers. The first uniform elections for these councils were held on 20 March 2011.
From 1954 to 1990, Poznań was divided into five dzielnicas, called Stare Miasto, Nowe Miasto, Jeżyce, Grunwald and Wilda. These ceased to exist as governmental units in 1990, although they are still used as areas of jurisdiction for certain administrative offices. Some osiedle councils were set up during the years to 2010, but the present division introduced in 2011 is the first to provide a uniform set of units of this type covering the whole area of the city.
Note that the city contains many housing estates and residential areas whose names include the word "osiedle"; not all of these are osiedles in the sense of the administrative division discussed here.
The map to the right shows the former division of the city into five districts called dzielnicas. The names Stare Miasto ("Old Town"), Jeżyce and Wilda are taken from neighbourhoods within those districts (the Poznań Old Town neighbourhood and the old neighbourhoods of Jeżyce and Wilda); similarly the name Grunwald can also refer to a relatively small neighbourhood within that district. The district of Nowe Miasto ("New Town") covered the parts of the city east of the main stream of the river Warta.
The boundaries of these former districts mostly coincide with boundaries between the post-2011 osiedles. The present 42 osiedles are listed below, according to which former district they are contained within. Further down the page is a map of these osiedles and a table of population and area data.
Stare Miasto
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Stare Miasto:
Stare Miasto ("Old Town") – covers the central part of Poznań, including the Old Town neighbourhood itself
Stare Winogrady ("Old Winogrady") – covers the southern and eastern parts of the Winogrady neighbourhood
Nowe Winogrady Północ ("New Winogrady North") – covers the northern and north-western parts of the post-1960s estates in Winogrady
Nowe Winogrady Wschód ("New Winogrady East") – covers the north-eastern parts of those estates
Nowe Winogrady Południe ("New Winogrady South") – covers the southern parts of those estates
Piątkowo – covers the main estates in the Piątkowo neighbourhood
Jana III Sobieskiego i Marysieńki – includes two estates in the north of Piątkowo
Naramowice – covers the Naramowice neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Winogrady, including the Łokietka estate in Piątkowo
Umultowo – covers the Umultowo neighbourhood and surrounding areas, north of Naramowice
Morasko-Radojewo – covers the areas of Morasko and Radojewo in the most northerly part of the city
Ogrody – the Ogrody ("Gardens") neighbourhood west of the old neighbourhood of Jeżyce
Wola – the Wola neighbourhood west of Ogrody
Krzyżowniki-Smochowice – the two neighbourhoods of Krzyżowniki and Smochowice, on the western edge of the city
Sołacz – the Sołacz neighbourhood and surrounding areas
Winiary – the Winiary neighbourhood north of Sołacz (Winiary was originally the name of villages north of central Poznań, which were moved to this neighbourhood in the 1830s to enable the construction of Fort Winiary)
Podolany – the Podolany neighbourhood north of Sołacz
Strzeszyn – the Strzeszyn neighbourhood west of Podolany
Kiekrz – the Kiekrz neighbourhood in the extreme north-west of the city
Wilda – the old Wilda neighbourhood and surrounding areas
Zielony Dębiec ("Green Dębiec") – the Dębiec neighbourhood on the southern edge of the city
Świerczewo – the residential Świerczewo neighbourhood west of Dębiec
Nowe Miasto
Osiedles within the former dzielnica of Nowe Miasto:
Ostrów Tumski-Śródka-Zawady-Komandoria – covers Ostrów Tumski (the "Cathedral Island"), the old neighbourhood of Śródka and the nearby Zawady and Komandoria neighbourhoods
Główna – the Główna neighbourhood in the north-east of the city
Warszawskie-Pomet-Maltańskie – three residential areas north of Lake Malta
Antoninek-Zieliniec-Kobylepole – three neighbourhoods in the east of the city
Rataje – covers the estates in the western part of the Rataje area
Chartowo – the north-eastern part of the Rataje estates
Żegrze – the south-eastern part of the Rataje estates
Starołęka-Minikowo-Marlewo – three neighbourhoods in the south of the city
Głuszyna – an area mainly of rural character in the far south of the city
Krzesiny-Pokrzywno-Garaszewo – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city, south of the Rataje estates (Krzesiny is the site of the 31st Air Base)
Szczepankowo-Spławie-Krzesinki – neighbourhoods on the edge of the city south-east of the Rataje estates
The map below shows the present division of Poznań into 42 osiedles.