Lasnamäe

Location of Lasnamäe in Tallinn

Lasnamäe

Laagna

Lasnamäe is a district in the northeast of the Estonian capital Tallinn , about 5 km from the center.

location

Lasnamäe is on the Lasnamägi (German Laaksberg ), a Klint from limestone overlooking the Baltic Sea . The first settlement of the area could be proven for the time of the cord ceramic .

architecture

Between 1976 and 1991 a huge prefabricated housing estate was built in Lasnamäe . The approximately 650 houses have 5 to 16 storeys. Lasnamäe was designed as a model settlement for 200,000 people with all the amenities of the time. However, parts of the infrastructure and recreational opportunities got stuck in the planning phase. For example, the tram line planned as the main connection to the city center was never built, and the six lanes of Laagna Street, originally planned as an extension of the motorway between Tallinn and Saint Petersburg , which divides Lasnamäe in half, end in two lanes in Priisle . For several years, however, work has been carried out to complete the settlement; For example, in November 2009 Pae Park was inaugurated as a greening of a disused quarry, and work on the tram line is to be continued in the foreseeable future.

Residents

Lasnamäe is today the largest and most populous district of Tallinn with an area of 30 km². 108,042 people live in it (as of December 31, 2011), a little less than an eleventh of the total Estonian population. The population density is 2678 inhabitants per km². The majority of the population (70.8%) is Russian-speaking and only 25.8% have Estonian as their mother tongue according to the last census.

Townships

The Lasnamäe district is divided into 16 districts: Katleri , Kurepõllu , Kuristiku , Laagna , Loopealse , Mustakivi , Pae , Paevälja , Priisle , Seli , Sikupilli , Sõjamäe , Tondiraba , Ülemiste , Uuslinn and Väo .

Social structure

Politically, the Center Party has dominated Lasnamäe for years . The district is the electoral district of the incumbent mayor Edgar Savisaar .

The football club FC Ajax Lasnamäe plays in the highest Estonian football league . Home stadium is the FC Ajaxi stadium with a capacity of 1,500 visitors.