Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona
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Filadelfia-Chalkidona municipality Δήμος Νέας Φιλαδελφείας-Νέας Χαλκηδόνος (Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια-Νέα Χαλκηδόνα) |
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| Region : | Attica | ||
| Regional District : | Athens center | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 38 ° 2 ′ N , 23 ° 44 ′ E | ||
| Area : | 3.65 km² | ||
| Residents : | 35,556 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 9,741.4 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Seat: | Nea Filadelfia | ||
| LAU-1 code no .: | 4508 | ||
| Districts : | 2 parishes | ||
| Local self-government : |
2 boroughs |
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| Website: | www.neafiladelfeia.gr | ||
| Location in the Attica region | |||
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Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona ( Greek Νέα Φιλαδέλφεια-Νέα Χαλκηδόνα ( f. Sg. )) Is a municipality in the northern center of the Athens metropolitan area. It was formed on January 1, 2011 through the merger of the municipalities of Nea Filadelfia (25,734 inhabitants) and Nea Chalkidona (9822 inhabitants) as the municipality of Filadelfia-Chalkidona, which has since formed the two districts of the municipality. The name was changed to Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona in 2017.
geography
Nea Filadelfia-Nea Chalkidona is surrounded on all sides by the closed urban space of the capital and extends over five kilometers in a north-south direction with a width of up to 1.3 kilometers. It borders on the north of the municipality of Athens, the Kato Kouklaki district forms the southern tip of the municipality to the west of the Kifisos . To the north of it, the Kifisos forms the border with Agii Anargyri-Kamatero and Acharnes . The eastern municipal boundary to Athens and Nea Ionia forms the Podoniftis or Perissos brook in the south , and further north the eastern boundary of the Nea Filadelfia park. The northern municipal boundary to Metamorfosi is only marked by roads . The community is located at around 105 meters above sea level in a flat area from which a gentle hill rises only in the Nea Filadelfia Park.
In addition to the names of the parish churches after which the districts are named, there are the districts Kokkinos Mylos ('Red Mill') on the upper Kifisos and Kouklaki in the southern tip of Nea Chalkidonas and to the north of it Chrysallida.
history
The area of the municipality was hardly populated until the First World War and was named after the stream Podoniftis , which was supposedly named after the Athenian family who owned the area, according to another theory according to the custom of soldiers who practice there regularly, then their feet in the Bach to wash (Gr. Podo- 'foot', nipto ' to wash'). In 1897 the area appears for the first time as Podoniftis in a census, at that time 19 inhabitants were recorded there, in 1920 110 inhabitants were determined.
The urban settlement of Podoniftis began after the Greco-Turkish War , when living space had to be created in Greece for around 1.5 million refugees from Turkey.
The name Nea Filadelfia (dt. 'New Philadelphia') is attributed to the lawyer and member of parliament Panos Diamandopoulos, who came from Filadelfia in Asia Minor (now Alaşehir ). In 1924, the new name of the settlement appeared for the first time in a call for donations for "200 more apartments for the Filadelfia-Podoniftis refugee settlement". From 1927 it was planned as a garden city on both sides of the old road from Athens to Dekeleia , with the characteristic street grid in an oval around the Platia Patriarchou, which still exists today. A picture from 1933 shows the extent of the newly founded, 41 hectare community with the sports field of the AEK Athens , on which the Nikos Goumas Stadium was later built. Also in 1927, a refugee settlement began directly south of this planned town, which was supplemented east of the highway by a new building area for new citizens of Athens from Greece. This settlement mainly housed refugees from Constantinople and was named Nea Chalkidona ('New Chalkidona') after Chalkedon , today's Kadıköy .
In 1933 Nea Filadelfia and in 1934 Nea Chalkidona were separated from the municipality of Athens. Both were initially rural communities (kinotites); after the population of 10,000 was exceeded, they were upgraded to municipalities (dimi) (Nea Filadelfia 1947, Nea Chalkidona 1982). In the decades after the Second World War , the communities and the entire outer areas of the Greek capital grew rapidly and are now almost completely built up, with the exception of the park in Nea Filadelfia. With the implementation of the Kallikratis program in 2010, they were merged into one community.
Street scene
Workers' settlement from the post-war period
Artificial lake in the park of Nea Filadelfia
Infrastructure, sport and traffic
The community has many green areas, mainly in the 48 hectare park of Nea Filadelfia and on the banks of the two streams, but also in many smaller parks and green areas. The centers of both parts of the city are designed as pedestrian zones. Almost a dozen of the original houses of the refugee settlement in Nea Filadelfia still stand.
The park of Nea Filadelfia was created by planting in 1914 and 1939 and had to be reforested after 1945 when the inhabitants had burned the wood. A lake was created in the 1950s, and the city cinema opened at the entrance to the park in 1959. From 1955 to 1996 animals were also kept in the park, but the zoo, which opened in 1986, was closed again.
Nea Filadelfia is the founding place and seat of the sports club AEK Athens .
The Greek A1 runs directly on the western edge of the municipality, the national road 1 crosses the municipality parallel to it as the main road. Line 1 of the Athens Metro runs just under 500 meters east of the municipality.
literature
- Panagiotis Gryllis: Μελέτη της εξέλιξης του προσφυγικού οικισμού της Νέας Φιλαδέλφειας με χρήση μεθόδων Γεωπληροφορικής , study the historical refugee settlement of Nea Filadelfia, Athens 2009, PDF online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the Greek Statistical Office ELSTAT ( Memento of November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Figure ( Memento from December 5, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the community