Neighborhood's name was changed after the former numerous hot springs on the bank of the Danube as Viline Vode is Serbian for "fairy waters". Originally, the western border of the neighborhood was the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky. The springs were capped when the railway and the "Beograd-Dunav" station were built in the mid 1930s. The oldest industrial building in Belgrade is located in Viline Vode. It was projected by Miloš Savčić as an administrative building for the nearby slaughterhouse. Later, it was adapted into the hotel which was oddly named "Klanica" (Serbian for slaughterhouse). Built in 1897–1898, It was the first industrial slaughterhouse in Belgrade. Apart from the abatoire and administrative building, the entire complex around it also included the social housing for the workers, a "kafana", central kitchen, etc.