Črnomerec () is one of the city districts of

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. Original name was

Črnomerec kod Pitona Črnomerec () is one of the city districts of Zagreb,Croatia. Original name was Črnomerec kod Pitona. It is located in the western part of the city and has nearly forty thousand inhabitants. History Archeological findings from Donja Kustoši ...

. It is located in the western part of the city and has nearly forty thousand inhabitants.

History

Archeological findings from Donja Kustošija show evidence of early stone age settlements in this area, some 35,000 years ago. There are even more artifacts from Roman period, including Roman road from mountain

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to river

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via this area. Črnomerec was first mentioned as ''Village Černomerci near Chapel of Holy Spirit'' in the 14th century, as the biggest village near city (of Zagreb). This ancient Chapel of Holy Spirit was abandoned after Jesuit order was dismissed (1773). It was destroyed in 1810 when lightning struck hit it while used as ammunition depot for nearby army barracks. For centuries the Črnomerec Stream was border of Zagreb city area, with ''malta'' (toll gate) in it. All vehicles entering the city area were due to pay ''maltarina'', as well as peasants bringing their produce to be sold at city's markets. Local legend says that the district's name derives from toll officers that were clad in black (''črno'' means black, and ''merec'' person that measures). Črnomerec city district covers much wider area than the former village, incorporating also old urbanized villages of Vrhovec, Jelenovac, Kustošija, Fraterščica, Čukovići, and others. Positioned on the very end of historic Zagreb, according to urban regulation plans from 1865, 1887 and 1919 Črnomerec was meant to serve as industrial and army part of the city. Therefore, number of factories and army barracks were built there, together with substandard suburban housing.

Economy and public affairs

The following factories are positioned in Črnomerec: *

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pharmaceutical industry (owned by Teva) *

Zagrebačka pivovara Zagrebačka pivovara (lit. Zagreb Brewery) was founded in 1892, when brewers from the Upper Town of Zagreb, Croatia realized they were not able to produce enough beer for the ever-growing and developing city. It was the first industrial brewery i ...

brewery (owned by

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) *

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coffee and snacks industry * Ciglana Zagreb brick factory, including open pit mine * Kamensko textile industry Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction and Ministry of Interior have seats in Črnomerec.

Buildings and monuments

The new chapel was built on the place of ancient Chapel of Saint Spirit in 1832, as well as Church of Saint Anthony of Padua with monastery. Zagreb West Station

The first railway station in Zagreb, initially called ''South Station'', than ''Sava Station'', now West Railway Station () was built in 1862. In the area of '' Sisters of Charity Hospital'' in Vinogradska Street there is the Chapel of Sacred Heart, built in 1896. Wealthy Pongratz family built in Mikulići a unique summer house in

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style in 1868.

Medvedgrad Medvedgrad (; Croatian language, Croatian for ''bear-town''; ) is a medieval Fortification, fortified town located about 10 km north of Zagreb, on the south slopes of Medvednica mountain, approximately halfway from the Croatian capital Zagreb t ...

('Bear-Town'), medieval fortified town is located on the south slopes of

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, approximately halfway to the mountain top Sljeme. From end of the 19th century Črnomerec was the main location for army barracks in Zagreb: Domobranska, Vozarska, Bataljunska, Topnička, Rudolfova. Although still standing, most all of them eventually got another functions - as factories, schools, ministries, courts. The most famous,

Rudolf barracks Rudolf barracks () is historic army barracks site in Zagreb, Croatia, today serving for various public purposes. Barracks were built at the outskirts of contemporary Zagreb in 1888/1889, the same time as number of army barracks in the western par ...

(), built in 1888, is today under protection as monument of architecture. In 2006 Zagreb City Council decided that, on the newly named Franjo Tuđman Square, a monumental statue of the first Croatian president will be erected. As of 2025, this has not happened yet. In 2010, a

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from World War II was discovered near the settlement of Gornja Kustošija. Exhumations of the mass grave began in February 2011, thus far revealing the remains of nine victims.Croatian police exhume suspected mass grave in Zagreb containing post-WWII victims
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List of neighborhoods

* Bijenik * Čukovići * Dedići * Filipović Drive (former commune "Bartol Kašić") * Fraterščica * French Republic Square (former commune "Ban Keglević") * Gornja Kustošija * Gornje Selo * Gornji Lukšić * Jelenovac * Kustošija * Lukšić * Mikulići * Sveti Duh * Šestinski dol * Šestinski vrh * Vrhovec

Neighboring districts

References

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