Jabučki Rit

Jabučki Rit
Јабучки рит
suburban settlement
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Coordinates: 44°55′01″N 20°33′33″E / 44.9170°N 20.5591°E / 44.9170; 20.5591
Country Serbia
DistrictCity of Belgrade
MunicipalityPalilula
SettlementPadinska Skela
Established1948
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Jabučki Rit (Serbian Cyrillic: Јабучки рит) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Palilula. Established in 1948, it existed as a separate settlement until 1955, and again from 1956 to 1972, when it was administrativelly annexed to Padinska Skela.

Location

Jabučki Rit is located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality, 23 km (14 mi) northeast of downtown Belgrade. It lies in the central part of the Pančevački Rit marshland, along a bend of the Sibnica Canal, near its junction with the Botuć Canal. The settlement is not located on any major road. It is connected by a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) road via Glogonjski Rit to the Zrenjaninski Put road, which links Belgrade with Zrenjanin in Vojvodina.[1][2]

History

Before World War II, the area of Jabučki Rit was known as Komareva Humka. Although the settlement did not yet exist, the locality was electrified in 1928, two decades before electrification reached the rest of northern Pančevački Rit. The name Komareva Humka is preserved in the official name of the cadastral municipality, which is much larger than Jabučki Rit itself, covers 72.4 km2 (28.0 sq mi), and includes Glogonjski Rit.[3]

Jabučki Rit was one of several new settlements established in Pančevački Rit, beginning in 1948, alongside Besni Fok (in 1947), Padinska Skela, Crvenka, Dunavac, Glogonjski Rit, Kovilovo, Preliv, Tovilište and Vrbovski.[4] These settlements were part of a broader effort to drain the marshland, convert it to arable land, and provide housing for workers of the agricultural PKB Corporation which managed the project. PKB Corporation later grew into a major company with over 42,000 employees. After the economic transition of the 2000s, the company collapsed,[5] and was sold by the government in October 2018 to the United Arab Emirates-based Al Dahra Agricultural Company for roughly half its estimated value.[6][7] The PKB directorate branch building in Jabučki Rit burned down in a fire on 6 May 2022.[8]

Administratively, Jabučki Rit was originally part of the municipality of Padinska Skela. In 1955 it was abolished as a separate settlement and annexed to Padinska Skela, along with other nearby settlements. In 1956 these settlements were again separated, and the entire Pančevački Rit was incorporated into the municipality of Krnjača, which was itself abolished in 1965 and attached to Palilula. Most of the smaller settlements, including Jabučki Rit, were abolished again in 1972 and annexed to the larger ones. Jabučki Rit was reattached to Padinska Skela,[9] despite being 13 km (8.1 mi) to the east, with no urban continuity between them. It is, in fact, much closer to the Belgrade suburb of Ovča, whose eastern outskirts lie about 3 km (1.9 mi) to the southwest.[1]

The movement advocating the creation of a new Dunavski Venac municipality, essentially a revival of the former Krnjača municipality under a different name, has been one of the most active municipal initiatives in Belgrade. A petition with 17,000 signatures was submitted to the Belgrade City Assembly in 2003, but the assembly concluded that conditions for establishing a new municipality were not met. The movement gained momentum, and in 2005 the Palilula Municipal Assembly initially supported the proposal, but later reversed its decision. According to the statute of the organization promoting the new municipality, Jabučki Rit (along with other peripheral settlements) would again be detached from Padinska Skela. In October 2017, the city administration disclosed that the proposal had been resubmitted, but that it was inconsistent with the City Statute.[10][11]

Characteristics

The settlement is named after the nearby village of Jabuka in Pančevo, Vojvodina. ‘’Jabučki rit’’ means “Jabuka's marshland”.[1] The area is known among birdwatchers and is recognized as a successful breeding site of the white-tailed eagle.[12]

While it existed as a separate settlement, Jabučki Rit had a population of 799 in 1961[13] and 885 in 1971.[14]

Jabučki Rit is connected to Belgrade by public bus line 106, which links it to the Omladinski Stadium terminus in the neighborhood of Bogoslovija.[15] The settlement has a kindergarten, a four-year elementary school (a satellite school of the “Olga Petrov” elementary school in Padinska Skela), and a community healthcare center. A small Romani settlement is located in Jabučki Rit, as part of a 2015 city social-housing project.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c Slobodan Radovanović (2007). Belgrade and surrounding places. Smederevska Palanka: Magic Map. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-86-7802-004-9.
  2. ^ Turističko područje Beograda [Tourist area of Belgrade]. Geokarta. 2007. ISBN 86-459-0099-8.
  3. ^ Srboljub Đ. Stamenković, ed. (2001). Географска енциклопедија насеља Србије, I том, А-Ђ [Geographical encyclopedia of the settlements of Serbia, Vol. I, A-Đ]. Belgrade: University of Belgrade's Faculty of Geography. pp. 173–174.
  4. ^ Janja Žitnik Serafin, ed. (2014). Priseljevanje in društveno delovanje Slovencev v drugih delih jugoslovanskega prostora – Zgodovinski oris in sedanjost [Migration and social acting of Slovenians in other parts of Yugoslav area – Historical outline and present] (PDF) (in Slovenian). Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo in migracije ZRC SAZU. p. 81. ISBN 978-961-254-668-7.
  5. ^ "PKB: Uništavanje uspeha" [PKB: destruction of success]. cins.rs (in Serbian). Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo Srbije. 25 March 2011.
  6. ^ "Država odlučila: PKB prodat Arapima" [State decided: PKB sold to the Arabs]. b92.net (in Serbian). 14 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Povoljnom kupovinom PKB-a Al Dahra zaradila 106 miliona evra" [Through favorable purchase of PKB, Al Dahra earned 106 million Euros]. insajder.net (in Serbian). 15 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Požar u objektu PKB-a na Paliluli" [Fire in the PKB building in Palilula]. Radio Television Serbia (in Serbian). 6 May 2022.
  9. ^ Sistematski spisak naselja u Republici Srbiji [Systematic list of the settlements in the Republic of Serbia]. Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade. 2011. p. 77. ISBN 978-86-6161-013-4.
  10. ^ Dejan Aleksić (8 October 2017), "Dug i skup put do novih opština" [Long and costly road to the new municipalities], Politika (in Serbian)
  11. ^ "Da ili Ne? Opština Dunavski Venac" [Yes or No? Municipality of Dunavski Venac] (in Serbian). borca.info. 2016.
  12. ^ "Ciconia – Glasnik društva za zaštitu I proučavanje ptica Vojvodine, Vol. 18" [Ciconia – Journal od the Bird Protection and Study Society of Vojvodina, Vol. 18] (PDF). Bird Protection and Study Society of Vojvodina (in Serbian). 2009. p. 21.
  13. ^ Popis stanovništva 1961 - Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf) [Census of Population 1961 – Population by nationality (pdf)]. Belgrade: Federal Statistical Office.
  14. ^ Popis stanovništva 1971 - Stanovništvo prema nacionalnom sastavu (pdf) [Census of Population 1961 – Population by nationality (pdf)]. Belgrade: Federal Statistical Office.
  15. ^ "Линија 106" [Line 106]. GSP Belgrade (in Serbian).
  16. ^ "Подручна школа Олга Петров" [Satellite school Olga Petrov]. Elementary School Olga Petrov Padinska Skela (in Serbian).
  17. ^ "Nemački novinari obišli romske porodice u Jabučkom ritu" [German journalists visited Romani families in Jabučki Rit] (in Serbian). lobi-info.rs. 16 October 2015.
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