Kopitareva Gradina

Kopitareva Gradina (Serbian Cyrillic: Копитарева градина) is a square and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad.

Location

Kopitareva Gradina is located in the east-central section of the municipality. It is located between the streets of Džordža Vašingtona, Hilandarska, Šafarikova, Đure Daničića, Bulevar despota Stefana, Jelene Ćetković and the square of Kopitareva Gradina itself. In the east it extends into the neighborhood of Jevremovac, in the south-east into Palilula, into Trg Republike on the west and into Dorćol in the north.

History

Kopitareva Gradina

Originally, the area was under the vineyards and was known as Mitropolitova bašta ("metropolitan's garden"),[1] after a garden build and kept by the metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Mihailo Jovanović. The area began to develop in the 1860’s, following the construction of the First City Hospital in 'Džordža Vašingtona street' in 1868. First houses were built in the late 19th century and city administration built a plan for the neighborhhod in the early 1900’s so for the most part, the area was urbanized in the period 1900-1914. City plan of creating lots was finished by 1905 and in 1907 a green square was buil at the place of the Mitropolitova bašta and in 1924 the name od the neighborhood is changed to Kopitareva Gradina ("Kopitar's garden"), after Jernej Kopitar, Slovene philologist and collaborator of Vuk Karadžić, major reformer of the Serbian alphabet.[2]

Characteristics

Kopitareva Gradina is a unique ambiental and architectural neighborhood within Belgrade. Though urbanized in the 1910s, the dominant features in its skyline are for the most part preserved until today.[3] Series of low, residential houses with back yards was built. The neighbrohood is built in two different architectural styles: Classicism (and Academism) and Secession. Examples of the first are the houses built by the architect Sreten Stojanović, and of the latter work of Milan Antonović. At the time, Kopitareva Gradina was a place where many politicians and public figures built their own houses. The square itself is somewhat secluded and has no traffic importance. In Hilandarska street is the museum, Memorial house of Laza K. Lazarević. Appart from Lazarević, other notable residents include Jovan Cvijić, Ljubomir Stojanović, Petar Palavičini and architect Antonović himself, and the houses were designed by the architects like Stojan Titelbah, Danilo Vladisavljević and the first Serbian woman srchitect Jelisaveta Načić.[2]

As an important cultural-historical complex, it has been declared a cultural property and protected by law on 27 December 1968.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Politika daily, August 20, 2007, p. 9
  2. 1 2 D.M.-LJ.P. (8 April 2012). "Kopitareva gradina – pod zaštitom države, a prepuštena rukama stanara" (in Serbian). Politika.
  3. ↑ Exhibition on Kopitareva Gradina
  4. ↑ Protected areas of Stari Grad

Coordinates: 44°48′57″N 20°28′08″E / 44.81583°N 20.46889°E / 44.81583; 20.46889

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