Country Serbia Time zone CET (UTC+1) Vehicle registration BG Local time Monday 7:42 PM Municipality Čukarica | District Toplica District Postal code 11251 Population 4,218 (2011) Area code 011 | |
Weather 11°C, Wind N at 8 km/h, 41% Humidity | ||
Ostružnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Остружница) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, in the municipality of Čukarica. It has a population of 4,218 people (2011).
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Geography
Ostružnica is located on the right bank of the Sava river, at the mouth of the Ostružnička reka, 14 km southwest of Belgrade, south of the Ada Ciganlija island.
History
Doljani is a former settlement that was located in the upper part of the Doljanski potok stream, between villages of Velika Moštanica, Meljak and Sremčica, just south of today's Ostružnica. It is widely held that Doljani was depopulated during the First Serbian Uprising, by Karađorđe due to the plague. Aćim Doljanac, Karađorđe's close cooperator and progenitor of the Doljančević family, moved to Ostružnica at that time.
During the First Serbian Uprising, Karađorđe, the leader of the rebellion, summoned the very first national assembly of Serbia in Ostružnica 24–28 April 1804.
Economy and infrastructure
Ostružnica has its own train station on the Belgrade's internal freight railway Batajnica–Surčin–Ostružnica–Železnik–Resnik, as the Sava is crossed by the railway bridge at Ostružnica. It is connected to the Belgrade's major freight train station and the marshalling yard of Makiš.
A new Ostružnica road bridge, in the final stages of construction, was bombed during NATO air attacks on Yugoslavia in 1999 and wasn't finished until 2005. It represents one of the major sections of the Belgrade bypass.
Demographics
Ostružnica is classified as an urban settlement, with a fluctuating population count: