Lakka (Symbolitia)

Local community Lakka Τοπική Κοινότητα Λάκκας (Λάκκα)
Basic data
Country	Greece
region	West Greece
Regional district	Achaia
local community	Egialia
Parish	Symbolitia
Geographic coordinates	38 ° 14 ′  N , 21 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 14 ′  N , 21 ° 59 ′  E
Height above d. M.	430  m (average)
surface	1.776 km²
Residents	147 (2011)
Population density	26.46 inhabitants / km²
LAU-1 code no.	37020610
Local division	1

Lakka ( Greek Λάκκα ( f. Sg. )) Is a Greek village in the municipality of Symbolitia in the municipality of Egialia in the region of western Greece . The village is located in the north-western Peloponnese at an altitude of 450 m, about 7 km from the Gulf of Corinth and 10 km from Egio and has the status of a local community.

Infrastructure and townscape

St. Athanasius Church in Lakka

Lakka has a lively village life with a community house and a kafenio as the center. In the meantime, some Germans have bought houses in Lakka and partially renovated them.

The church, built in 1890 and expanded to include the bell tower in 1954, is dedicated to St. Athanasius. The local holiday is May 2nd.

Lakka owns a waterworks that the famous architect Ernst Ziller designed and built in 1902 . The dome of the building was removed in the course of modernization. The old school in Lakka was converted into a museum building for regional history and old handicrafts with EU funds. The building is empty.

economy

The landscape with its yellow, loamy soil is characterized by olive groves, almond trees, vineyards and occasionally cypresses and is therefore often compared to Tuscany. In the past, the farmers used the clay to build houses. They live from the marketing of the olives and the wine. Approx. In 1880 the export of currants (small black raisins) began to flourish because the raisin harvests in France were destroyed. The export brought prosperity to the Northern Peloponnese with Egio as the center. While the farmers used to use clay to build houses, the rich Lakkas farmers had stone houses built, which still characterize the townscape today.

history

Lakka was increasingly populated by families from Achaia and Roumeli around 1870 and is one of the seven villages of the Tsetsevochoria . After earth movements with severe subsidence and landslides occurred again and again between 1750 and 1775 in the large village of Tsetsevo (700 m above sea level near Ano Salmenika at the eastern foot of the Panachaikos ), it was abandoned. The clans moved to the various winter quarters of their herds and founded seven Tsetsevi villages. One of them was Gropa , as Lakka used to be called. The old name is traced back to the first Albanian settler and owner of the village at that time.

In 1928 the village was renamed Lakka. The name probably comes from Lakkaki = hollow and Lakkos = pit, also animal enclosures.

The village was badly affected by a landslide in 1960. In 1973/74 the state offered the villagers land in the Meidana / Rododafnis / Panorama area. The majority of the residents were relocated to the newly built Meidana housing estate in the 1980s.

Population development

1830	19 settlers
1844	113 inhabitants
1851	118 inhabitants
1861	142 inhabitants
1879	211 inhabitants
1889	326 inhabitants
1896	321 inhabitants
1907	324 inhabitants
1920	356 inhabitants
1928	360 inhabitants
1940	496 inhabitants
1951	453 inhabitants
1971	295 inhabitants
1981	249 inhabitants
1991	263 inhabitants
2001	329 inhabitants
2011	147 inhabitants

swell

• Max Vasmer : The Slavs in Greece. Verlag der Akad. Wissenschaften, Berlin 1941, DNB 740496727 .
• Brochure of the municipality of Symbolitia with a brief description of the villages (Greek)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
2. ↑ Γρόπα - Λάκκα, Μετονομασίες των οικισμών της Ελλάδας