Männiku

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Männiku (disambiguation) .

The Männiku (red) district in Tallinn's Nõmme (yellow) district

Bus stop in Männiku

Männiku (in German " pine forest ") is a district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It is located in the Nõmme district .

description

The city district has 6,035 inhabitants (as of May 1, 2010). Its area is 3.7 square kilometers.

To the south of Männiku is the Männiku Lake ( Männiku järv ), to the southeast of the Raku Lake ( Raku järv ). In between is the smaller Pumba Lake ( Pumbajärv ). To the west, Männiku borders the Pääsküla moor ( Pääsküla raba ).

In 1798 the district was named Sukleni on the maps of Ludwig August Mellins . In the early 20th century, the area was called Valdeck (from the German name "Waldeck") to an eponymous tavern .

With the expansion of Tallinn into a sea fortress, the tsarist army built numerous barracks and fortifications. In May 1914 plans arose to build a garden city in the district. They could not initially be carried out because of the outbreak of the First World War . It was not until the early 1920s that major civil construction work began. At the same time, the existing military buildings were taken over by the young Estonian state.

In 1937 the foundation stone for the establishment of industrial plants in Männiku was laid with the Estonian building materials company Kvarts . With the influx of workers, the number of residents has risen continuously since the late 1930s.

Web links

Commons : Männiku  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of Männiku (Estonian)

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 59 ° 23 '  N , 24 ° 43'  E