Glogonjski Rit

Glogonjski Rit
suburban settlement
Country  Serbia
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Glogonjski Rit (Serbian Cyrillic: Глогоњски Рит) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Location

Glogonjski Rit is located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality, 18 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade and 3 kilometers east of the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin in Vojvodina. The settlement is built in the central part of the marsh of Pančevački Rit, on the Sibnica canal.

Name

The settlement was named after the nearby village of Glogonj in Pančevo municipality in Vojvodina and means Glogonj marsh. It is a local center of the sport fishing.

History

As almost all of the settlements in the Pančevački Rit, it was developed after 1947 for housing workers employed in the melioration and later those who became workers of the PKB agricultural company, so even today Glogonjski Rit is surrounded by the PKB plantations. Originally, it grew fast and was nicely arranged and kept. Streets were paved with avenues of plane trees, the settlement had a park, an ambulance and a school. It looked so nice that Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito took foreign guests to visit Glogonjski Rit, including presidents of Algeria, China and Egypt.[1] But, as the PKB’s fortune changed to worse, so did the state of the settlement which is today neglected and deteriorated.

Until the 1970s Glogonjski Rit was statistically a separate settlement. Since then, it was administrativelly attached to Padinska Skela, 5 kilometers to the west, even though the two settlements make no continuous built-up area. If Dunavski Venac would detach from Palilula and become a separate municipality (process began in 2006) it is said that Glogonjski Rit would also be detached from Padinska Skela into a separate settlement again.

During NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, NATO aircraft targeted the fuel tank of the petrol station near Glogonjski Rit.

Demography

While it was a separatte settlement, according to the official censuses, Glogonjski Rit had a population of 1,259 in 1961[2] and 1,293 in 1971.[3]

References

  1. ↑ B.V.-K.B., "Glogonjski rit – od oglednog naselja do zapuštenog predgrađa", Politika (in Serbian)
  2. ↑ Popis stanovništva 1961, Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf). Savezni zavod za statistiku, Beograd.
  3. ↑ Popis stanovništva 1971, Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf). Savezni zavod za statistiku, Beograd.

Coordinates: 44°56′N 20°29′E / 44.933°N 20.483°E / 44.933; 20.483


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