Traces of the garden-city idea on the example of Wozuczyn-Cukrownia

At the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of garden city (created by Ebenezer Howard 1898) gained the status of an international trend. It was not only in the urban dimension but also in the social too. The idea of this type of towns and village planning was transplanted to Poland in 1908. It was the time when W. Dobrzyński became acquainted with the main assumptions of the garden cities idea, which was presented during the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Berlin. On the wave of the popularity of Howard’s ideas individual associations have been funded such as: city garden Mlociny (1913), Sokolniki (1931), Podkowa Lesna (1933) and Okęcie (1929).

Against this background, it is not surprising that Wozuczyn, which was designed in the early 20th century by the Warsaw architect Tadeusz Zieliński, was maintained according to the main principles of shaping the city’s gardens. The aim of the article is to present the state of preservation of the garden complex in Wozuczyn-Cukrownia in the light of the archival documentation.