Železnik
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Železnik (Serbian Cyrillic: Железник), is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica.
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[edit] Location
Železnik is located in the central part of the Čukarica municipality, 12 km southwest from the downtown Belgrade. It borders Makiš to the north (actually, it is built up in the northern part of the Makiš forest), and apart from the urbanized, narrow strip of land alongside the Belgrade-Bar railway and the Vodovodska Street, which makes it a continuous built-up area with Žarkovo to the northeast, it has no urban connection to the other parts of Belgrade.
Several streams flow through the settlement, the creeks of Krušik and Krušički potok and a small river of Čitačka reka.
[edit] History and population
Železnik village was founded in the XVII century. Construction of the modern settlement began in 1947, as a worker's settlement for the employees of the newly constructed Ivo Lola Ribar factory. Soon, plans were made for a completely new settlement, a major and heavily industrialized suburb of Belgrade (Železnik, Serbian for Iron City), with a population of 80.000, but that goal is not achieved. Formerly a separate municipality, it was a separate town until 1971, when was administratively annexed to the Belgrade City proper. Population of Železnik:
- 1921 - 1,987
- 1961 - 10,727
- 1971 - 16,912
- 1981 - 19,731
- 1991 - 25,000 (est.)
[edit] Železnik Selo
Železnik Selo (Serbian for Železnik village) is the oldest part of Železnik. It is located in the present settlement's northwestern part, south of the old semetary. In 1981 Železnik Selo had a population of 6,766, which was almost 35% of the entiore settlement's population.
[edit] Novi Železnik
A completely new settlement, constructed in west of the Ivo Lola Ribar factory, in the northwestern corner of the settlement. It stretches from the grade separating junction of Ivo Lola Ribar Street on the west, to the stadium of the FC Železnik on the east. Unlike the village, it has straight streets, a clinic, post office, shopping mall, gas station, green market, etc.
[edit] Economy
The major facility in the settlement is the Ivo Lola Ribar factory, specialized in production of heavy machines and machine tools. Accordingly, a machinery and metallurgy high school is located in the settlement as well.
Železnik has its own train station as the railway passes on the western outskirts of the settlement. Also, a large train station and a marshalling yard is located in the nearby Makiš.
[edit] References
- Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija, Third edition (1985); Prosveta; ISBN 86-07-00001-2
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
