Fort Radiowo
Fort Radiowo | |
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City Information System area (neighbourhood) | |
The main building of the Military University of Technology in Fort Radiowo, in 2015. | |
The location of the City Information System area of Fort Radiowo within the district of Bemowo | |
| Coordinates: 52°15′20″N 20°53′17″E / 52.255430°N 20.888057°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| City and county | Warsaw |
| District | Bemowo |
| Incorporation into Warsaw | 14 May 1951 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
Fort Radiowo (Polish: [ˈfɔrt raˈdjɔ.vɔ]) is a neighbourhood and City Information System area in the Bemowo district of Warsaw, Poland. It features the campus of the Military University of Technology and low-rise single-family housing, as well as the historic Fort IIA, dating to the 1880s.
In the 1880s, the Fort IIA Babice (later also known as Radiowo), was built in the area of the modern neighbourhood, as part of the fortifications of Warsaw. In 1923, it was adopted to house the broadcasting infrastructure of the Transatlantic Radiotelegraph Exchange, at the time, one of the largest radio communication stations in the world. In 1933, a small suburb of Boernerowo was built nearby to house its employees. The complex was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War. In 1951, the campus of the Military University of Technology was built in the area. It was incorporated into the city the same year.