Stari košutnjak | |
Native Name: | Стари Кошутњак |
Native Name Lang: | sr |
Settlement Type: | Urban neighbourhood |
Pushpin Map: | Serbia Belgrade |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Belgrade |
Coordinates: | 44.7567°N 20.4514°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Serbia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Belgrade |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Rakovica |
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 |
Stari Košutnjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Кошутњак) is a neighborhood located in Rakovica, municipality of the city of Belgrade. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Rakovica municipality Kanarevo brdo and Miljakovac,[1] and municipalities of Čukarica, Savski venac and Voždovac.
The neighborhood's original name was the Railway colony (Serbian: Železnička kolonija). At the beginning of the 1920s, the Ministry of Railroad started building a neighborhood for their workers.[2] Even today, the neighborhood is filled with old trains and their parts, so its primary purpose still remains in a way.[3]
It is located in the southern part of the municipality, at its border with the municipality Savski venac. Around the neighborhood, there are 4 forests: Košutnjak, White Palace forest, Banjica forest, and Miljakovac forest.[1] River Topčiderka flows through the whole neighborhood. It is 8 kilometers from the center of Belgrade (~5 miles). Close to this neighborhood is the park Topčider and a forest with a similar name – Košutnjak.[4] And in its very close vicinity is also the luxurious neighborhood Dedinje, which connects the neighborhood to Slavija, a part of Belgrade's center with the most traffic.[5]