Terazije

Terazije , in Serb Cyrillic Sr Теразије, is a place and a district of the center of Belgrade, the capital of the Serbia. They are located in the municipality of Stari Grad.

Site

Even if many inhabitants of Belgrade consider that the Place of the Republic or Kalemegdan is the center of Belgrade, Terazije can as well assert this title.

Conceived at the beginning like a place, Terazije became a street today. By the street of the king Milan Ier, it is connected to the Place of Slavija; by the Place Nikola Pašić, it is connected to the Boulevard of the king Alexandre (bulevar Kralja Aleksandra), the longest artery of the capital, and, by the street of Prizren, with the district of Zeleni Venac which, beyond, leads to Novi Beograd. Lastly, by the street Kolarčeva, it is connected to the Place of the Republic.

History

Terazije started to take urban forms in first half of the XIXe century. In the years 1840, the prince Miloš Obrenović ordered to the Serb craftsmen, particularly to the blacksmiths and to the craftsmen of copper, to leave the Turkish old city and to build their houses and their shops at the place of the current place; it was then a question of fighting against the fires. Ilija Čarapić, the president of the municipality of Belgrade, had like mission of allotting grounds to them; those which agreed to enclose them obtained them free.

Being the origin of the name of Terazije , the historian Milan Đ. Milićević written: “To feed water Belgrade, the Turks built towers water along the system of led S which brought the water of the sources of Veliki Mokri Lug. Water was pumped in these water towers in order to increase the pressure by it and to carry it further”. One of these water towers was built with the site of the current fountain of Terazije and the place owes its name with the Turkish word indicating these turns, terazi , literally " scales with eau".

Until worms 1865, the houses of Terazije had only one or two stages. The water tower of Terazije was destroyed in 1860 and was replaced by a fountain, the Terazijska česma, which was built to honor the second reign with the prince Miloš Obrenović. The place was restructured first once in 1911 and the moved fountain with Topčider. It was reinstalled in Terazije in 1976.

The place was completely reorganized in 1911 and 1912. The central part was decorated solid masses; side of the current street Branislav Nušić (Nušićeva), a large fountain was built. At the end of the XIXe century and at the beginning of the XXe century, Terazije was the center of the social life of Belgrade.

Another period of reorganization started in 1948, at one moment when the Royaume of Serbia had become the socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia. Terazije was amputee over his width at the point to become a street; the solid masses of flowers in the center and the double track of Tramway were removed. Gray buildings, in the style of the Soviet Realism, were built, formant, in the years 1950, the Place Marx and Engels , become today the Place Nikola Pašić.

Municipality

In 1952, the town of Belgrade, formerly organized in " secteurs" (Sr rejon), was divided into municipalities. Terazije was one of these municipalities. However, as of on January 1st 1957, it was removed and divided between those of Vračar and Stari Grad. With the census of 2002, population of current the " community locale" (mesna zajednica) of Terazije rose with: 3338 inhabitants and, by counting several other small local communities which form the district, with: 11104 inhabitants.

Famous buildings with Terazije

Located at the center of Belgrade, Terazije saw building famous buildings.

One can quote:

the Hotel of Paris , built in the years 1870 but destroyed in 1948; on its site the current shopping mall Bezistan is;

the coffee Kod Zlatnog Krsta (" With the cross of or"), where was shown first film of the Frères Light the June 6th 1896; in its place the Dušanov Grad is today;

the old hotel Kasina , built towards 1860; it was located close to the Hôtel of Paris ; it is there that in 1918 the first National Assembly of Serbia meets some time; the parts of the National theater of Belgrade were played there until in 1920; the current hotel Kasina was built on its site in 1922;

the restaurant and the cinema Takovo ;

the Hotel Moskva, one of most famous of Serbia; it was built in 1906 and presents a frontage decorated with tiles in Céramique;

more the great restaurant McDonald's of the Balkans;

the De luxe hotel Albania, built in 1937; it was the first building great height of Belgrade and the most building of the Balkans before the Second world war.

Terazijska Terasa

The Terazijska Terasa , in Serb Cyrillic ТеразијскаТераса, the " Terrace of Terazije" , is located on the slopes of the hill of Terazije (on which the district of Terazije is built), on Right Bank of the Save. During the history, it bore the name of Zapadni Vračar and Savamala. It famous for its particularly movable ground. To its top it offers an excellent panorama on the Save, Novi Beograd and the area of Syrmie.

Its installation is the object of a debate since the XIXe century. In 1912, a plan was conceived by the French architect Albain Chamond, which envisaged a series of small places in form of Trapèze, going down cascades about it towards the river and leaving the intact sight. In 1923, a project to make a site of observation of it was born. In 1929, the Serb architect Nikola Dobrović drew a project in which two large office buildings, at the two ends of the hill, would frame several more modest constructions intended for the businesses and the leisures; the slope itself would be occupied by a sucession of gardens, lakes and fountains. The plan of Dobrović, initially accepted, was abandoned. It remade surface in the years 1990. In 2006, a new competition for A-grade officials was open for the aménagememnt of Terazijska Terasa. But one of the buildings of businesses, such as Dobrović conceived them, is in construction in the street Balkanska; it will be about a intelligent Immeuble.

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