StaglišćeHouses, a market and a church between Zagrebačka avenija and Horvaćanska

Staglišće at a glance

• To the main square by ZET37 min
• To the centre as the crow flies4.7 km
• MO Jarun residents (2021)⁶12,072
• Tram on Horvaćanska³³since 1987

Where Staglišće is

According to the local-history project Mapiranje Trešnjevke and Wikipedia, Staglišće is a neighbourhood in the west of Zagreb, between Zagrebačka avenija to the north, Ulica Hrvatskog sokola to the west, Hrgovići and the Kustošak stream to the east and Horvaćanska cesta to the south.^1,2 Officially it belongs to the city district of Trešnjevka – jug and lies wholly within the Jarun local committee (mjesni odbor), one of the district's six; there is no Staglišće committee.^4,3,5 Nor is it a separate settlement; it is part of the settlement of Zagreb.⁴ A kvart (neighbourhood) is an everyday name with no official boundary.

The Jarun committee is larger than the neighbourhood and also takes in Jarun and the lake, and its official street list includes a street called Staglišće.^4,3 So population figures exist only for the whole committee area, which had 12,072 residents at the 2021 census.⁶ The streets east of the Kustošak that people sometimes count as Staglišće, such as Augusta Prosenika, Martina Pušteka and Ogulinska, belong to the Gajevo committee.³ Rudeš lies north of the avenue, Gajevo to the east, Jarun to the south and Vrbani to the west.^1,2 According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, the name Jarun is now most often used for the whole area south of Zagrebačka avenija.⁹

For and against: life in Staglišće

What life is like in Staglišće

According to a student project at the Faculty of Architecture, family houses dominate inside Staglišće, while blocks of flats stand along its edges.⁴² The main road is Hrgovići, named after several Hrgović families who lived in that part of Jarun.^1,9 In the late 1980s Hrgovići was extended north to Zagrebačka avenija, which separated Staglišće from Gajevo.^1,9

The engineering firm StudioStudio flat (garsonijera)A flat where living, sleeping and cooking share one room, with a separate bathroom. Often spelled garsonjera.Source: Pravilnik minimalnih tehničkih uvjeta za projektiranje i gradnju stanova iz POS-a (NN 106/04, 25/06, 121/11), čl. 2., checked 19 Oct 2026More in the glossary K lists among its references two buildings on the Gajevo – Staglišće estate from 1979, with 82 and 48 flats, and six blocks of the so-called "blok centar" from 1980–81, with 43 to 153 flats each.²⁷ In 1984 the architect Slavko Jelinek built residential blocks in Staglišće; the biographical lexicon singles out the Zagrepčanka office tower as his strongest work.²⁶ According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, the neighbourhood took its present shape in the mid-1980s, in the building wave before the Universiade.¹

Staglišće shares most of its public services with Jarun and Gajevo: both primary schools, the Jarun nursery, Knjižnica Staglišće, the market, the churches of Sveta Mati Slobode and the Holy Spirit, NK Jarun and the health centre.^1,9 Part of the neighbourhood is on the city's district-heating network, and before the 2024/25 heating season HEP replaced its pipes in Staglišće and several other neighbourhoods.³⁶

Where the name Staglišće comes from

None of the sources we checked explains where the name Staglišće comes from.^1,2 According to the local-history blog Nepoznati Zagreb, a 1949 city plan spells it Štaglište, and today the area is most often simply called part of Jarun.¹³ Mapiranje Trešnjevke notes that the stress falls on the i: Staglìšće.⁹

A short history of Staglišće

According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, until 1937 the area west of the Črnomerec stream, including today's Staglišće, lay outside the city in the municipality of Gornje Vrapče.⁸ When the municipality of Kustošija was founded that year, Staglišće went to it along with Voltino, Ljubljanica and Rudeš, while Jarun, Vrbani and Prečko stayed in Gornje Vrapče.⁸ It became part of Zagreb after 1945.^1,8 In the 1950s the motorway that is now Zagrebačka avenija cut it off from Ljubljanica and Rudeš.¹

According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, heavier building began in the 1960s around Peščanska ulica, then the area's main road, and its branches Pakoštanska and Glavna Kružna (today Kružna).¹ Where Ulica Hrvatskog sokola runs now there was a nameless haul road that carried gravel, sand and concrete from the motorway to Tempo's gravel pit and concrete plant by the old arm of the Sava. Locals called it the "concrete" or "Tempo" road, and it ran between fields of maize.¹⁰

In 1976 the City's Urban Planning Institute commissioned a sociological study, "Gajevo – Staglišče, Jarun, Vrbani".⁴³ The same year the detailed plan for Gajevo – Staglišće was drawn up; it was in force from 30 July 1977 to 15 November 1995.²⁸ According to the Holy Spirit parish's own history, the house in Galijska ulica that held the parish chapel was to be demolished under the building plan for the Gajevo – Staglišće estate, and for years the parish was refused a permit for a new church. The foundation stone of the church in Dugoratska ulica was laid on 21 November 1981, and the church and pastoral centre were largely finished by September 1982.¹⁴

OŠ Jarun, now OŠ Bartola Kašića, opened on 11 February 1985.^21,9 The tram arrived along Horvaćanska cesta in 1987, just before the Universiade,^33,9,10 and Knjižnica Staglišće opened on 30 September 1988.^22,25 According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, the area got its market in 1996.⁹ Since 1 August 2009 the parish has been based at the church of Sveta Mati Slobode across Horvaćanska, and the Holy Spirit church has been a filial church.^14,2,17

1. 1937Staglišće joins the newly founded municipality of Kustošija.⁸
2. 1950sThe motorway that is now Zagrebačka avenija cuts Staglišće off from Ljubljanica and Rudeš.¹
3. 1960sHeavier building begins around Peščanska ulica.¹
4. 1969The Jarun – Gajevo school, now OŠ Ivana Meštrovića, takes its first pupils.²⁰
5. 1975The decree founding the Holy Spirit parish is issued; bus line 113 is introduced.^14,9
6. 1977The detailed plan for Gajevo – Staglišće comes into force.²⁸
7. 1981–1982The Holy Spirit church is built on Dugoratska ulica.¹⁴
8. 1985OŠ Jarun, now OŠ Bartola Kašića, opens.²¹
9. 1987The tram arrives along Horvaćanska cesta, just before the Universiade.^33,9
10. 1988Knjižnica Staglišće opens.^22,25
11. 1996The area gets the Jarun market.⁹
12. 2000The tram is extended to Prečko, and the church of Sveta Mati Slobode across Horvaćanska is consecrated.^33,14,17
13. 2009The parish moves its seat to Sveta Mati Slobode, and the Holy Spirit church becomes a filial church.¹⁴
14. 2026Knjižnica Staglišće collects residents' stories in the Jarun priča workshops.²⁴

What to see in Staglišće

• Holy Spirit church

  At Dugoratska 2, beside the Jarun market.¹⁵ Once the main church of the Salesian parish of Jarun, it was built in 1981–82, and two years later Paolo Figallo Giustiniani of Bologna painted its altarpiece. Since 2009 it has been the parish's filial church.^14,2

• Tržnica Jarun

  The city market at Pakoštanska ulica 5, with a covered hall and outdoor stalls. It opens 06:30–16:00 on weekdays, until 15:00 on Saturdays and until 14:00 on Sundays.²⁹

• The yellow house on Hrgovići

  According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, the yellow house on Hrgovići by the market's taxi rank was the only shop in Staglišće until the early 1970s. The Frljužec family ran it until the 1950s and Unikonzum after them, but locals went on calling it "Frljužec". Since the early 1980s it has been one of the buildings of the Jarun nursery.¹²

• Ulica Hrvatskog sokola

  The western edge. It was called Čankovićeva ulica until it was renamed after Croatian independence. According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, it was one of the few Zagreb streets that already had a cycle path in the 1980s, here separated from the pavement by a low kerb and a row of trees. At its southern end, by the road to the lake, there was a funfair for a while, and a circus sometimes visited.¹⁰

• Sveta Mati Slobode, across Horvaćanska

  It stands just across Horvaćanska cesta, on the south-west corner of the junction with Hrgovići, so already in Jarun.^17,16 It is a votive church for those killed in the Homeland War, designed by the architect Nikola Bašić. Its foundation stone was laid on 11 November 1995 and it was consecrated on 12 November 2000.^14,16

• NK Jarun

  The football club was founded in the summer of 1921 in the yard of Ivan Bartolić at Jarun 21, and was called Borac from 1945 to 1990.¹⁸ The club built its own ground on Ogulinska ulica in 1950; its address today is Ogulinska 23, across the Kustošak in the Gajevo committee area.^18,7,3

Did you know?

• 1A 1976 sociological study records a resident at a meeting about the estate plan pleading to keep the old houses with their small gardens and vine arbours, and not to repeat Knežija's concrete jungle.⁴³
• 2Studio K lists one of its 1980–81 blocks with 150 flats and two shelters for 200 people.²⁷
• 3According to Mapiranje Trešnjevke, old Peščanska cesta, once the main road from Horvati and Jarun to Vrapče, ran through Staglišće along today's Hrvoja Macanovića and Našička streets. The only surviving stretch is north of the avenue in Rudeš, where the houses still carry the old numbers 162 to 180.^11,9
• 4In 2013 children from the private nursery Pipi Duga Čarapa drew and built models of the playground they wanted, and the district council then laid out a park and playground for HRK 1.08 million including VAT.³⁵
• 5According to NK Jarun's history, on 17 June 1989 the club, then called Borac, hosted 49 members of the HDZ at the party's founding assembly in its rooms.^18,19

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