Kowale, Wrocław


Kowale is a district in Wrocław located in the north-eastern part of the city. It was established in the territory of the former Psie Pole district.

Name

The name of the village derives from the Polish word 'kowal'. Heinrich Adamy, in his work on local names in Silesia published in 1888 in Breslau, lists the Polish form Kowalowice as the original recorded name of the locality, giving its meaning as Schmiededorf.
The name was phonetically Germanized to Cawallen, losing its original meaning.

History

Initially a village, the settlement was incorporated into Breslau in 1928.
In 1991, after reforms in the administrative division of Wrocław, Kowale became one of the city's 48 districts.