Väike-Õismäe

The district of Väike-Õismäe (red) in the Tallinn district of Haabersti (yellow)

Väike-Õismäe (in German "Little Flower Mountain") is a district ( Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It is located in the Haabersti district .

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Väike-Õismäe has 27,822 inhabitants (as of May 1, 2010). After Mustamäe, it is the Tallinn city district with the second highest population.

Väike-Õismäe, projected in 1968, is, alongside Mustamäe (1958) and Lasnamäe (1973), one of the three Tallinn satellite towns that arose during the Soviet occupation of Estonia.

The design for Väike-Õismäe comes from the Estonian architects Malle Meelak and Mart Port . It was realized between 1973 and 1984. The district was originally intended for 45,000 people. The model should be the urban planning concepts of the British architect Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928) with his geometric garden cities .

In contrast to Mustamäe with its small districts ( micro-rajons ), Väike-Õismäe is planned as a large macro-rajon in the sense of a ring town. The image of a rose blossom emerges from the air.

An artificially created round lake forms the center of the satellite town. In the inner circle there are five to nine-storey high-rise buildings in panel construction . The outer circle is formed by tower-like high-rise buildings with sixteen floors. They are partly built in brick, partly in panel construction. The green areas are generously designed.

Schools, kindergartens and shops are grouped in a ring around the lake. Behind a ring road that connects Väike-Õismäe with the other parts of Tallinn, there are more four-story buildings.

In the west, Väike-Õismäe borders the 1.6 square kilometer Harku Lake ( Harku järv ).