Železnička Kolonija Explained

Železnička Kolonija
Native Name:Железничка Колонија
Native Name Lang:sr
Settlement Type:Urban neighbourhood
Pushpin Map:Serbia Belgrade
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Belgrade
Coordinates:44.8369°N 20.3725°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Serbia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Belgrade
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Zemun
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset1:+1
Timezone1 Dst:CEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+381(0)11
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:BG

Železnička Kolonija (Serbian: Железничка Колонија) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Location

Železnička Kolonija is located in the southwestern section of the urban Zemun, on the Belgrade-Novi Sad railroad. It borders the neighborhood of Novi Grad on the north and Kolonija Zmaj on the south while in the east it extends into the neighborhood of Kalvarija.

Characteristics

The neighborhood was built in 1929 near the Zemun-Novi Grad railway station, thus the name Železnička Kolonija (railway settlement). The original core of the neighborhood consists of 28 residential houses which were initially considered to be temporary so the basic infrastructure (sewage, etc.) was not conducted but the idea was later dropped so the neighborhood survived.

The later addition to the neighborhood (with unsuccessfully attempted name of Franjine Rudine) in the north and northeast which makes the urban connection to the rest of Zemun is sometimes also considered both part of Novi Grad or Železnička Kolonija. The local community (mesna zajednica, municipal sub-administrative division) which covers this area had a population of 5,557 by the 2002 census of population. A small park within the neighborhood was built in 2007.