Vau-Deja

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Vau-Dejë
Vau-Deja
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Vau-Deja (Albania)
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Coordinates: 42 ° 0 '  N , 19 ° 38'  E

Basic data
Qark : Shkodra
Municipality : Vau-Deja
Height : 25  m above sea level A.
Area : 499.09 km²
Residential place : 8117 (2011)
Bashkia residents : 30,438 (2011)
Population density (Bashkia): 61 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code : (+355) 0261
Postal code : 4008
Politics and administration (as of 2019 )
Mayor : Mark Babani ( PS )
Website :
Culture and history
Local place name : Vau-Dej / Vau-Deja
Aerial photo (2016) with Mjeda in the middle below and Laç to the right of the dams, behind the lake and the Albanian Alps

Aerial photo (2016) with Mjeda in the middle below and Laç to the right of the dams, behind the lake and the Albanian Alps

Vau-Deja ( Albanian  also  Vau-Dejë , Vau-Dejës , Vau i Dejës ) is an urban-type municipality ( Bashkia ) in northern Albania in the Shkodra Qark . The community has 30,438 inhabitants (as of 2011). In 2015, the previously independent municipalities Bushat (14,149 inhabitants), Hajmel (4,430 inhabitants), Shllak (671 inhabitants), Temal (1,562 inhabitants) and Vig-Mnela (1509 inhabitants) were incorporated into it. The municipality of Vau-Deja had 8117 inhabitants in 2011 (2011 census). The local authorities gave a significantly higher number of 12,312 inhabitants (2008).

geography

Redesigned downtown street

Vau-Deja is about ten kilometers south of Shkodra on the river Drin , which also coined the place name: In German it means ford of Deja . The place marks the transition between the Albanian coastal plain - the Adriatic is around 20 kilometers away - and the Albanian mountainous country. The Drin, Albania's longest river, emerges from the mountains here and splits into two arms. It is dammed at Vau-Deja to the Vau-Deja lake . Directly under the dam is the Spathara reservoir , which is used to generate energy in the Ashta hydropower plant .

The old parish consisted of an urban center and eight villages over an area of ​​31 square kilometers. The center is the district of Laç-Qyrsaçi , which is located just below the dam on the south bank of the Drin and is now often simply called Qytet (city) . Another large district is Mjeda , two kilometers west of Laç. The Deja settlement lies opposite these two places north of the Drin at the foot of a small hill. To the west of this is the village of Spathar, also on the northern bank of the Drin near the reservoir of the same name. The villages of Shelqet , Koça and Naraç are scattered across the plain south of Mjeda . In the sparsely populated hill country east of Laç are the villages of Dush and Gomsiqa as well as almost at the other end of the Karma reservoir . About half of the residents of the old community live in the villages.

The new parts of the municipality are partly in the Zadrima plain, partly in the mountains bordering to the east. The parish has an area of ​​468 square kilometers. The villages of Vig and Mnela are located in the valley of the Gjadër river, southeast of Vau-Deja. The very secluded Cukali highlands northeast of Vau-Deja include the former area of ​​the municipality of Temal with the villages of Koman , Malagji-Kajvall, Kllogjen, Toplana, Vila, Serma, Arra and Telum as well as the municipality of Shllak with the villages of Kron i Madhë, Beneja , Ukbibaj, Barcolla, Vukjakaj-Gegaj, Palaj-Gushaj and Vukaj. Shllak was the western part of Cukali north of the Vau Deja Reservoir, Temal joined to the east and is northwest of the Koman Reservoir . The village of Hajmel is located south of Vau-Deja in the north of the Zadrima. The villages of Dheu i Lehtë, Pistull, Paçram and Nenshat also belonged to the Hajmel municipality with an area of ​​30.6 square kilometers. Bushat, the largest town in the region, is located west of Vau-Deja. The municipal area with 92.7 square kilometers included the villages Bushat, Shkjeza, Plezha, Kosmaç, Stajka, Ashta, Rranxa, Fshat i Ri, Konaj, Melgushë, Mal i Jushit, Barbullush, Kukël and Hotnej.

history

The Romans built a fort in the hills to the southeast near Vig in the 4th century to protect the road to Pristina against  attacks from the East and Visigoths . Sarda ( Albanian Shurdhahi ) is another Roman fortification. The facility, located on a hill - today an island in the reservoir - was already used by the Illyrians . The settlement of the almost urban Sarda lasted until the conquest of Albania by the Ottomans in the 15th century.  

Vau-Deja Church depicted on the back of the 1000 Lek banknote, issued in 1997

In 1361 a church was built in Vau-Deja, which is one of the very few non- Byzantine , but Romanesque - Gothic  buildings in Albania. The Marienkirche equipped with frescoes was destroyed. The remains of a St. Mark's Church from the 14th century can still be found on the medieval castle . The ford of Vau-Deja, then called Dagno , was an important customs post before the Ottoman occupation . Because of them  , Skanderbeg waged war with Venice .

In 1052 the diocese of Sapa was established in the region with its seat in Sapa (castle of today's Nënshat a little south) and later in Vau-Deja. A newly built, Mother Teresa consecrated cathedral  is located in the center of Laç.

Subsidence or floods in the years 1858/59 meant that the majority of the water masses of the Drin looked for a new path and since then no longer flows south and into the sea at Lezha , but flows further west at Shkodra into the Buna  .

Economy and Transport

dam

Around a third of the old municipal area is used for agriculture. A third of the working population was unemployed in 2008. There are nine elementary schools and two secondary schools.

Construction of the dams began in the 1960s, the lake was later dammed and the hydroelectric power station was put into operation in 1975 . The hydropower plant is one of the largest electricity suppliers in Albania.

The tourist potential of the scenic Vau-Deja Lake is hardly used. A few restaurants and bars that also rent rooms have sprung up on its banks. The opportunity to visit the island of Shurdhahi with the ancient Sarda by messenger is only used occasionally. Boat trips on the Koman reservoir are more popular with tourists.

The main road SH 1 from Tirana  to Shkodra runs between Bushat and Vau-Deja through the municipality. The Albanian railway Hekurudha Shqiptare runs further east at Vau-Deja, where it crosses the Drin; There is a train station in Mjeda. In addition, the roads to Puka  ( SH 5 ) and Koman lead through the town.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Simon Kulli (* 1973 in Pistull), Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Sapa

literature

Web links

Commons : Vau-Deja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Shkodër 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
  2. Bashkai Vau Dejës. (PDF; 133 kB) In: Keshilli i Qarkut Shkodër. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012 ; Retrieved November 7, 2010 (Albanian).
  3. a b Nagel's encyclopedia travel guide to Albania . Nagel Verlag, Geneva 1990, ISBN 2-8263-0826-2 .
  4. a b c Strategic Development Plan of Vau i Dejes Municipality - Short Version. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Local Government Information Network. Vau-Deja municipality, 2008, archived from the original on April 25, 2012 ; accessed on October 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.logincee.org
  5. Të dhëna të përgjithshme. In: Bashkia Vau Dejës. Retrieved January 14, 2017 (Albanian).
  6. Komuna Hajmel. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Keshilli i Qarkut Shkodër. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2015 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qarkushkoder.org
  7. Komuna Bushat. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Keshilli i Qarkut Shkodër. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2015 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qarkushkoder.org
  8. a b c James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo - Blue Guide . A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 .
  9. a b Guntram Koch: DuMont Art Travel Guide Albania . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2079-5 .
  10. Peter Bartl: Albania in the past: From the Middle Ages to Ottoman rule . In: Peter Jordan, Karl Kaser, Walter Lukan, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Holm Sundhaussen (eds.): Österreichische Osthefte . Volume 45, issue 1/2. Peter Lang, 2003, ISSN  0029-9375 .
  11. Albania, Macedonia commemorate Mother Teresa on centenary of her birth. In: Foxnews.com. August 26, 2010, accessed November 10, 2010 .