Don Bosco (Buenos Aires)

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Don Bosco
Basic data
location 34 ° 42 ′  S , 58 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 42 ′  S , 58 ° 18 ′  W
Population (2001): 20,876
Agglomeration : Gran Buenos Aires
  (Argentina)
 
 
administration
Province : Buenos Aires ProvinceBuenos Aires Province Buenos Aires (Province)
Partido : Quilmes
Mayor: Martiniano Molina ,
Propuesta Republicana
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Location of Don Bosco

Don Bosco is a district ( Spanish Localidade ) of Quilmes in Argentina . It is located on the Río de la Plata and belongs to the Gran Buenos Aires metropolitan area . The place is considered to be a better location in the urban space, but it is characterized by a great social gradient.

geography

Don Bosco is about 12 kilometers southeast of the center of Buenos Aires , 2 kilometers north of the center of Quilmes. It extends as a rectangle about 5 × 1 km from the La Plata bank inland. The La Plata presents itself here as a bay of the South Atlantic that is over 30 km wide .

The district is divided into four zones. In the middle is the actual center, a moderately densely built-up residential, commercial and small business area. In the northeast there is an extensive beach and marshland landscape on La Plata. In between is Nuevo Quilmes , a closed residential area of ​​the highest class, with the Telintar branch . Villa Itatí and Villa Azul form the southwest end , the largest poor district of the city. The area of ​​the Policlínico del Vidrio is pushed between the former and the center .

The boundaries of the district are in the northeast of the Río de la Plata, in the southeast the Avenidas Lomas de Zamora - Montevideao zu Bernal Oeste , a district of Bernal von Quilmes, in the southwest the Avenida Sargento Cabral to Bernal Este , and in the northwest the extension of the Avenida (Colonel) Lynch zu Wilde , a district of Avellaneda .

Don Bosco had about 21,000 inhabitants at the 2001 census. Today it is likely to be significantly more, the population of Villa Itatí alone, two thirds of whom are in this district (the rest is in Bernal Este), is given as 45,000 in 2012.

Neighboring locations
(Localidades)
Wilde (Ciudad  Avellaneda , Part. Avellaneda ) (Río de la Plata)
Neighboring communities
Bernal Oeste (Ciudad  Bernal ) Bernal Este (Ciudad  Bernal )

history

Originally a settlement of the local Guaraní should have been here . The European settlement of the area began soon after the founding of Buenos Aires in 1580 by Juan de Garay, with two estancias, Del Adelantado and De Gaitán . Until the 19th century, the area was largely characterized by plantation economy, but also trade and small businesses, mainly fresh fruit (pears, peaches, watermelons) was grown for the capital. From 1666 the Reducción de la Santa Cruz de los Indios Quilmes was founded here, a camp for the remains of a revolting indigenous people of the Andes, who were settled here as workers, and died out. In 1812 the reduction was dissolved and converted into a settlement.

In 1850 the estate of the Bernal family, to which Don Bosco also belonged, was parceled out. The main route was today's Avinida San Martin , which branches off from the RP36 Avellaneda– Pipinas to Quilmes . A large part of the Don Bosco street grid follows the course of this street, the rest of the more modern La Plata banks-parallel grid of the metropolitan region.

In 1872 a railway line was built along the road, the Buenos Aires - La Plata ( Ferrocarril General Roca ) line , which connected Quilmes to the provincial center via Avellaneda. The telephone connection was established in 1885 and the regular postal service at the train station in 1886. In 1894 the first school was founded (Escuela N 6).

In 1895 - in the former Estancia de los Dominicos of the Convento de Santo Domingo de la Orden de los Dominicos Predicadores - a branch of the Salesians of Don Bosco , who had been active in the Buenos Aires area since 1875 (with the Salesians' first foreign mission), was established. Initially a novitiate , it was expanded into the Colegio Salesiano de Bernal on May 29, 1898 (the foundation stone was laid on April 5, 1891). In 1895 the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Guardia , the church of the district, was inaugurated. The Don Bosco sisters (FMA, Spanish Hermanas de María Auxiliadora ) also made their home. The Salesians are here to this day especially in youth work and care for the poor areas.

In 1914 an ambulance followed, founded by the first doctor on site, Fernando Pozzo. In the same year Nuestra señora de la Guardia was elevated to a parish church.

The Camino General Belgrano , the Buenos Aires - La Plata highway, was built in the 1910s and is now the RN1. It separates the urban area from the coastal area.

Estación Don Bosco , settlement core of the district ⊙

In 1929 the train station - simply called Parada Km.13 - was renamed Estación Don Bosco , at the instigation of the Salesian Father Lambruschini, who was friends with the then Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen - according to the decree “at the request of the population” and in appreciation of the “Effective work of excellent educators”. As a result, the name was also transferred to the entire district, and this is now counted as an independent one alongside Bernal. The founder of the Salesians, Don Bosco , had been beatified shortly before , and thus became the city's patron. The formal renaming of the settlement dates back to April 17, 1931. On November 25, 1979, on the occasion of the centenary of the Salesian settlement, Don Bosco was given the rank of Ciudad .

From the 1940s onwards, the district developed increasingly, first along the tracks, and still has a few historic villas in the city center. Don Bosco has a very good reputation as a living space for the middle class. A municipal council was set up as early as 1938.

Since the 1960s, an illegal poor settlement ( Villa miseria in Spanish ) has been built in the urban open space around the junction of the RN1 , built by migrant workers, most of whom come from Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. The area is sharply demarcated from the surrounding city centers on the streets, social contact only takes place between Itatí and the train station. The Villas Itatí and Azul are located in the regular floodplain of the former lagoon, and are characterized by crime and drug problems.

In 2007-2010, Nuevo Quilmes was built as a closed, guarded residential complex ( barrio cerrado, barrio privado ubicado , gated community ) on the coastal side, right up to the motorway, a luxurious settlement that is spread around its own lagoon. The area had belonged to the state telecommunications company Startel, now ENTEL . It comprises around 650 residential units and 5 hectares of park, as well as its own shopping center. It is feared that the flood situation in the surrounding lower areas will worsen after extensive field work.

Infrastructure and culture

Don Bosco is well connected to the greater Buenos Aires area by rail and highway. Two metropolitan lines of Ferrocarril General Roca operate at the stop , from Constitución to Bosques and to La Plata (operator: Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia UGOFE).

In the district there are several public and private schools, a public library (Biblioteca Popular Don Bosco) , two clubs (social centers with sports associations, Libertad and Don Bosco the Salesians), a hospital (Policlínico del Vidrio) and a first aid center .

The main festivities of the place are the Festejos de la semana de Don Bosco 16. – 23. November, in which the namesake was honored. The city council declared the festival week as “of municipal interest” by ordinance.

literature

  • Urs Luczak: Ambivalence of Exclusion. The Villa Itatí in Buenos Aires as a resource for social participation. Perspectives of an integrative planning . Dissertation, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at Chemnitz University of Technology. Chemnitz August 2009, urn : nbn: de: bsz: ch1-qucosa-61628 .

Web links

Commons : Don Bosco  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b U. Luczak: Ambivalence of Exclusion . 2009, 5 Villa Itatí: Creation and spatial design of the place of living , section Socio- spatial integration , p. 147 .
  2. ↑ Master plan ( memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) nuevoquilmes.com.ar - Panorama of the eastern Don Bosco
  3. ↑ nuevoQuilmes website of the operator
  4. ↑ Sede Villa Itatí-VillaAzul - Barrios y Boletines . ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) desarrollosocial-quilmes.blogspot.com.ar, April 27, 2012 (with map);
    vecinosdewilde.com.ar
  5. ↑ a b Sanatorio Policlínico de la Obra Social del Vidrio y Afines , Hospital of the Sindicato Obrero de la Industria del Vidrio y Afines see (SOIVA), Trade Union of glass industry and relatives. Clinicas y Centros. ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at: soivavidrio.com.ar
  6. ↑ Don Bosco . ( Memento of November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) quilmes.gov.ar > La ciudad → Localidades
  7. ↑ a b c d Anke Spiess, Markus Matzel: Endstation Sehnsucht. ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: DonBosco.magazin. 5/2012, online;
    similar to Villa Itatí: In Search of Paradise- Dead End Migration , Don Bosco Mission > Projects> Project Countries> Latin America> Argentina
  8. ↑ "Since the Villa Itatí is an illegal marginal quarter - the state land was illegally appropriated and not built in accordance with applicable legal standards - it is not recorded by official statistics. Reliable data on the number of inhabitants are not available; this can only be determined approximately. Different statements by interviewed experts and residents vary between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants. ”Quote from U. Luczak: Ambivalence of exclusion . 2009, 5 Villa Itatí: Creation and spatial design of the place of living , footnote 221, p. 125 .
  9. ↑ Historia . ( Memento of November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) quilmes.gov.ar → La ciudad
  10. ↑ Manuel Ales: Quilmes de fin de siglo. 1966.
    JA Craviotto: Quilmes a través de los años. Municipalidad de Quilmes, 1969, OCLC 557782018
    J. A. Craviotto: Índice Cronológico de la Historia de Quilmes . Impresora Nardi, 1941.
    Azarola Gil, Luís Enrique: Los Maciel en la historia de El Plata. 1940.
    Juan Carlos Lomban: Nueva Historia de Quilmes, El Monje ediciones, Quilmes 1992.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h Chalo Agnelli: Don Bosco, un poco de historia puerta y zaguán de entrada a Quilmes desde el norte. In: El Quilmero. October 18, 2010, accessed January 2, 2013 (Spanish).
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h Chalo Agnelli: Don Bosco tendra su fiesta. In: País de los Quilmes. November 9, 2009, accessed on December 24, 2012 (Spanish, especially sections Historia and El Ferrocarril ).
  13. ^ Ruta Provincial 36 (Buenos Aires) in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h Historia . bernal-oeste.com.ar → Informacion general
  15. ^ Bollettino Salesiano Anno XIX. N. 8, Agosto 1895, (online) ( Memento from March 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) biesseonline.sdb.org
  16. ↑ Angelika Luderschmidt: Don Bosco missions abroad - how it all began. ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: DonBosco.magazin. online onA
  17. ↑ Bernadette Bayrhammer: When help becomes concrete. Network of Hope in Villa Itatí. In: Worldwide. 6/2008, p. 36.
  18. ↑ Camino General Belgrano in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  19. ^ Ruta Provincial 1 (Buenos Aires) in the Spanish language Wikipedia
  20. ↑ a b c Palmira S. Bollo Cabrios: Una division del repartimiento de tierras de Garay. El antiguo kilómetro XIII Hoy Don Bosco. In: Cuarto Congreso de Historia de los Pueblos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires :. Mar del Plata, 18 al 20 de noviembre de 1993, Volume 1, 1997, pp. 89f.
  21. ↑ " Visto el pedido de los pobladores de la Estación Parada Km.13 para que se dé a la misma el nombre de Don Bosco y teniendo en cuenta la obra eficaz del virtuoso educador del que se desea honrar el nombre… ". Decreto del Poder Ejecutivo Nacional , 4 de noviembre de 1929. Quoted in Agnelli, El Quilmero 2010.
  22. ^ Esp. U. Luczak: Ambivalence of Exclusion . 2009, influx and settlement , p. 126 ff .
  23. ↑ A connection to the General Paz motorway was planned , which was not completed except for the Accesso Sud RNA001. U. Luczak: Ambivalence of exclusion . 2009, p. 146 f .
  24. ↑ U. Luczak: Ambivalence of exclusion . 2009, 5.2.1 Urban Spatial Integration , p. 142 ff .
  25. ↑ U. Luczak: Ambivalence of exclusion . 2009, Gated Communities , p. 57 f . ( Photo documentation , Fig. 6.88 to 6.91 and mapping , Fig. 1.5). see. also Michael Janoschka: Prosperity behind walls. Private urbanizations in Buenos Aires. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002.
  26. ^ Proyecto. ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) nuevoquilmes.com.ar
  27. ↑ Un mega-country de Caputo amenaza con inundar Quilmes y complica al “Barba” Gutiérrez . La Política Online, April 5, 2010.
  28. ↑ Network plan Ferrocarril General Roca  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on December 24, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.entreviajantes.com.ar
  29. ↑ El Club SyD Don Bosco ( Memento of 29 December 2012 at the Web archive archive.today ) clubsydonbosco.com.ar