City of Banyule

- 37.766666666667145.05Koordinaten: 37 ° 46 ' S, 145 ° 3' O Banyule City is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria. Banyule belongs to the city of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. The area is 63 km ² in size and has about 118,000 inhabitants.

Banyule is located 7 to 21 km north-east of the center of Melbourne and includes 20 neighborhoods: Bellfield, Briar Hill, Bundoora, Eaglemont, Eltham North, Greensborough, Heidelberg, Heidelberg Heights, Heidelberg West, Ivanhoe, Ivanhoe East, Lower Plenty, Macleod, Montmorency, Rosanna, St Helena, Viewbank, Watsonia, Watsonia North and Yallambie. The southern boundary of the City is the Yarra River, in the west flows the Darebin Creek. The Plenty River runs through the north-eastern half from north to south. The seat of the City Council is located in Ivanhoe in the southwest.

The name of Banyule is derived from the word for " hill " in the language of the local indigenous people and originally referred to a survey in today's district of Heidelberg. Accordingly, the landscape of the City is wavy and 466 acres are undeveloped public land. Banyule has large parks and is otherwise mainly from residential area. Most important institutions are the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre and the Simpson Barracks.

The Olympic village where the athletes stayed at the Summer Games in 1956, is located in Heidelberg West district.

In Heidelberg was established in 1890, the first major international movement of Australian painting the impressionist landscape painters of the Heidelberg School.

Management

The Banyule City Council has seven members who are elected by the residents of the seven Wards. These seven districts ( Bakewell, Beale, Griffin, Grimshaw, Hawdon, Ibbott and Olympia) are set independently of the districts. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.

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