The district of Wieniawa, once an independent town, was incorporated into the administrative borders of Lublin only in 1916. One of its inhabitants in the late 18th century was tzadik Yaakov Yitzchak Horovitz, who moved to the center of Lublin in 1794 and became famous as the Seer of Lublin.A separate Jewish congregation, with its own synagogue and a cemetery functioned in Wieniawa. In 1905, 3 879 people out of the total population of 5 592 were Jewish.[...] Wieniawa constitutes a coherent Jewish settlement with a synagogue, houses of study, a bathhouse and a cemetery. The synagogue rises on a hill in the middle of a little square, almost in the center of the settlement. It is a stone building of a beautiful architectural shape, single-nave and square, with a hallway and a gallery for women.Majer Bałaban, The Jewish Town in LublinIn 1940, the Jewish inhabitants of Wieniawa were relocated to the Lublin Ghetto, the synagogue was destroyed and the cemetery was partially built over as a Sportplatz—a sport field for the SS. A part of the cemetery was returned to the Jewish community in 1997. Small commemorations have been placed in the area of the cemetery and by the former Wieniawa Town Hall, the only historical building in the neighborhood, located in the vicinity of the former synagogue.