Stari košutnjak explained

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.

History

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]

Geography

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miljakovac . https://web.archive.org/web/20200224123749/http://www.miljakovac.org/o-miljakovcu/ . 2020-02-24.
  2. Web site: Pruga uskog koloseka Užice-Šargan-Vardište - FORUM LJUBITELJA ŽELEZNICA . www.zeleznice.in.rs . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180417105419/http://www.zeleznice.in.rs:8080/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8 . 2018-04-17.
  3. Web site: BEOGRADSKO GROBLJE VAGONA: Tu svraćaju beskućnici i pijani klinci, a vreme je stalo! (FOTO). 29 January 2017 .
  4. Web site: S KOJIM SE PREDZNANJEM IDE NA TOPČIDER I KOŠUTNJAK? O stvarnom značenju ovih naziva i o javnim tajnama koje čuvaju (FOTO). 6 March 2018 .
  5. Web site: Treći vek Rakovice.