Trešnjevka – NorthFrom the market on Trešnjevački trg and Savska cesta to Voltino, Ljubljanica and Rudeš

Trešnjevka – North at a glance

• Residents (2021 Census)³²52,974
• Households renting³³10.4%
• Area³⁶5.8 km²
• Neighbourhoods in our guide5
• Local committees³⁷10

Rents are asking prices from active listings on NajamStanova; residents and renting come from the 2021 Census. Households renting are those paying a market rent.

Where Trešnjevka – North is

The district covers part of the settlement of Zagreb. In the west the boundary follows the east side of Zagrebačka cesta, from Ulica kralja Tomislava to Zagrebačka avenija, and across the road is Stenjevec.^1,7 To the south is Zagrebačka avenija, with Trešnjevka – jug (Trešnjevka – South) beyond it. There the boundary crosses the Vrapčak stream and meets Savska cesta at no. 108.¹

In the east the boundary follows the east side of Savska cesta to Crnatkova, so across it lie Trnje and, further north, Donji grad.^1,7 From Crnatkova it turns along Jukićeva and Jagićeva to the Zagreb–Ljubljana railway, which it follows west to Zagrebačka cesta. North of the railway is Črnomerec, which also takes in the Zapadni kolodvor station building.^1,7 The City describes the district as distinctly flat and almost entirely built up.⁷

Neighbourhoods in Trešnjevka – North

• TrešnjevkaThe neighbourhood whose name both Trešnjevka districts carry; its core is Stara Trešnjevka around the Trešnjevački trg market, with interwar workers' single-storey houses.Trešnjevka neighbourhood guide
• VoltinoA workers' estate built for the Rade Končar factory in the early 1950s, named after physicist Alessandro Volta, with the Papagajke blocks finished in 1977.Voltino neighbourhood guide
• LjubljanicaA former village, now narrow streets of family houses and a school from 1948, by the Črnomerec stream with the tram terminus just across it.Ljubljanica neighbourhood guide
• RudešA former Kaptol village, recorded in 1221 and outside Zagreb until 1945, now mostly family houses, with the Sky Office towers on its edge.Rudeš neighbourhood guide
• RemizaNamed after the tram depot opened in 1936, with the interwar Naselje Istrana i invalida and the Trešnjevačka ljepotica tower at Ozaljska 93.Remiza neighbourhood guide

District council and local committees

Trešnjevka – sjever is the eighth of the 17 city districts set up by the City Statute, adopted on 14 December 1999.³ The City Assembly fixed the districts' boundaries and seats in a decision of 26 February 2009, later amended in 2017 and 2020.^1,2 The local committees (mjesni odbori) were founded in February 2009.⁶ Under that decision both Trešnjevka districts, north and south, have their seat at the same address, Park Stara Trešnjevka 2.^1,4

The district council has 19 members and was constituted on 24 June 2025. The district's work is governed by its rules of 2022.⁵ From 1945 to 1952 this area, with most of today's Trešnjevka – jug, formed Zagreb's 5th rajon (ward), and from 1953 Trešnjevka had the status of a municipality.⁶

10 local committees (mjesni odbori) in Trešnjevka – North: Antun Mihanović, Ciglenica, Dr. Ante Starčević, Ljubljanica, Nikola Tesla, Pongračevo, Rudeš, Samoborček, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Stara Trešnjevka.³⁷

People in Trešnjevka – North

At the 2021 Census, 52,974 people lived in Trešnjevka – North in 23,429 households. 2,446 households, or 10.4%, paid a market rent (Zagreb: 7.7%). The average household had 2.2 members.^32,33

The district covers 5.8 km², about 9,133 people per square kilometre (Zagreb average: 1,196).³⁶

Its parts: what is where in Trešnjevka – North

In the Middle Ages this land was split between Kaptol and Gradec, and the boundary of their estates, also Zagreb's western boundary, was the Črnomerec stream.⁶ The western part, mostly today's Rudeš, belonged to Kaptol and stayed outside Zagreb until 1945.⁶ Not far from the village of Ljubljanica lay a piece of land called Berek, where Remiza stands today.⁶

The change from village to town began in 1862 with the Zidani Most – Zagreb – Sisak railway and the Južni kolodvor, today's Zapadni kolodvor. Factories and workshops went up mainly along Savska cesta and the railway.⁶ The city waterworks in Zagorska ulica were built in 1878, and in 1907 the city power station was built in their grounds. Warehouses and factories rose along the narrow-gauge line to Samobor, opened in 1901.⁶

Until the end of the First World War Trešnjevka was a thinly settled suburb. Between the wars it was built up fast, mostly without permits.⁶ In the 1920s the Gradska štedionica savings bank built 50 single-storey houses for tram staff on Selska cesta, and in 1935 a tram line with a new depot was laid through Tratinska and Ozaljska.⁶ Work on the Prva hrvatska štedionica estate, to Zdenko Strižić's design, began the same year, with rows of houses, small gardens in front and larger ones behind.⁹

The City's 2019 analysis says the interwar single-storey houses, mostly built without a plan, are fast giving way to larger buildings.⁷ In the west is Voltino, whose core was built in the first half of the 1950s for workers of the Rade Končar enterprise; three larger blocks in the north of the estate were finished in 1954.⁸ Končar, founded in 1921 as Elektra d.d., still has companies at Fallerovo šetalište 22.^27,28

Where the name Trešnjevka – North comes from

According to the City, Trešnjevka is named after a piece of land called Črešnjevke, a little north of Ljubljanica and Berek.⁶ Tržnice Zagreb, the market operator, links the name to a locality called Pod Črešnjom, recorded in 17th-century sources.¹⁶ Sjever (north) sets this district apart from Trešnjevka – jug; the 1999 Statute lists both.³

Roads, rail and lines in Trešnjevka – North

The main roads on the edges are Zagrebačka cesta, Zagrebačka avenija and Savska cesta.^1,7 The City's 2019 transport map of the district shows Selska and Rudeška cesta, Ozaljska, Ulica grada Vukovara, Nova cesta, Zagorska, Krapinska, Fallerovo šetalište, Ulica Dragutina Golika and Baštijanova running through it.⁷

The Zagreb–Ljubljana railway follows the northern boundary. The Zapadni kolodvor station building, at Trg Francuske Republike 13 b, is on the other side of the line, in Črnomerec.^10,1

From the Ljubljanica terminal, between Ozaljska and Fallerovo šetalište, buses 113 run to Jarun, 114 to Prečko, 115 to Špansko and Jankomir, and 116 to Podsused – most.¹¹ Bus 118 runs from Trg Mažuranića to Voltino, with stops by Dom sportova and in Zagorska. Bus 117 from Črnomerec to Jarun has run since 10 February 2025 and goes along Golikova.^12,30,31 ZET, the city transport company, has its head office at Ozaljska 105.¹⁹

Office, health, police and libraries in Trešnjevka – North

Being built in Trešnjevka – North

• Dom sportova at Trg Krešimira Ćosića 11 has been closed for renovation since 1 July 2024.^21,7 The first phase, contracted for 18 months, renovates halls 1, 3 and 4 and adds a new steel roof.²⁰ According to Sportske novosti on 3 September 2026, the first phase was still unfinished and the cost had risen to €41.2 million including VAT.²⁴
• The new stadium in Kranjčevićeva has been under construction since April 2025.²² According to Tportal on 6 November 2026, it will have 11,163 covered seats and a square of about 6,300 m². Building works are due to end by 1 December 2026 and all contracted obligations by 1 February 2027.²³
• Ulica grada Vukovara was rebuilt for 490 metres, from Trešnjevački trg to Ulica Florijana Andrašeca, with cycle paths. The August 2025 estimate was €1.5 million excluding VAT.²⁵ According to Jutarnji list it opened on 6 October 2026, and Krapinska had been rebuilt the year before.²⁶
• HNK2, the Croatian National Theatre's new stage at Ulica Božidara Adžije 7a, opened on 3 November 2025. The theatre called it the start of the renewal of this part of Trešnjevka.²⁹

Did you know?

• 1By population density Trešnjevka – sjever ranks second of the 17 city districts, after Donji grad, at the 2021 census.¹⁷
• 2The full-size model mine in the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, Savska cesta 18, runs for more than 300 metres and goes down to six metres below ground, in rooms once used to ventilate the old Velesajam (Zagreb Fair) exhibition space.^18,7
• 3According to the City, a tram line was built on Savska cesta in 1891, with a depot where the Technical Museum stands today.⁶
• 4The football ground where NK Zagreb's stadium stands today was laid out in 1924.⁶

Renting in Trešnjevka – North

Nearby districts

• ČrnomerecDistrict guide
• Lower TownDistrict guide
• StenjevecDistrict guide
• Trešnjevka – SouthDistrict guide
• TrnjeDistrict guide

• Compare districts: Trešnjevka – North and Črnomerec
• Compare districts: Trešnjevka – North and Lower Town
• Compare districts: Trešnjevka – North and Stenjevec
• All Zagreb neighbourhood guides

For listings across the district, see flats for rent in Trešnjevka – North. To compare the neighbours, read what living in Črnomerec is like and the Lower Town district guide.

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