Crvenka, Belgrade

Crvenka
Neighborhood of Belgrade
Crvenka
Coordinates: 44°51′46″N 20°24′44″E / 44.86278°N 20.41222°E / 44.86278; 20.41222
Country	Serbia
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Crvenka (Serbian Cyrillic: Црвенка) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula and statistically is part of Borča.

Crvenka is located in Banat section of the municipality, half kilometer away from the left bank of the Danube, on the Batin kanal stream. It is built in the thickly forested area and surrounded by marshes of Pančevački Rit so, even being close, it can't be seen from the opposite, Zemun bank and it is not near to any other settlements of Belgrade.

During the 18th century an Austrian sentry post was erected here and was named Crvenka (Serbian for red land or red place).

The settlement was built after the World War II. It developed as an experimental agricultural farm of the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Agriculture, which is seated actross the Danube, in the neighborhood of Zemun. The settlers came to Crvenka as they were needed for the work, instead of being colonized like in the other settlements in Pančevački Rit. Part of the original settlers were Germans who left for Germany in the 1960’s.

Part of Crvenka is a weekend-settlement which means it has no permanent population. It consists of some 100 houses, mostly owned by the residents of Zemun, even though it is located across the river, in different municipality. Public transportation bus line 104 connects Crvenka to Belgrade’s neighborhood of Bogoslovija.

The canal that flows through the settlement, Batin canal used to be broader and navigable, with colonies of wild ducks and white herons and it was used by the Belgrade's kayaking clubs for trainings. Since the canal was illegally dammed to create a path to Borča with tree trunks, the water flow was stopped, the canal began flooding the surrounding area and wild birds moved out.

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