{"id":467,"date":"2025-02-20T21:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2.muzejnikoletesle-konkurs.rs\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:36:04","slug":"istorijat-prostora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/en\/site-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Site History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section\" id=\"section_428351357\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-653919938\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-653919938 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-611702940\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1417985922\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2016456994\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<h2>HISTORY OF THE AREA<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2016456994 {\n  font-size: 1.05rem;\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1073383204\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1964767825\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Savski Square<u> <\/u><\/strong>belongs to the riverside area of the Sava River, where at the beginning of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century the Lower Serbian Town (Donja srpska varo&scaron;) in Belgrade &ndash; Serbian White City (Srpski Beligrad), Savska Town (Savska varo&scaron;) or Savamala (after the Turkish word <em>mahala<\/em> denoting an urban district) was founded. Savska Town was a new urban unit on the Sava right bank, into which the former Orthodox inhabitants were relocated from the newly formed German Belgrade in the Danube part of the capital. Savska Town, as an urban district of an open type, was founded outside the town walls in the, so called, Savski Amphitheater, without any protective fortresses, in the area bordered today by the streets Kralja Milana, Kneza Milo&scaron;a, Nemanjina and Karadjordjeva and it was inhabited predominantly by craftsmen, because more respectable and well-to-do inhabitants, merchants and clergy resided in the Upper Town (Gornja varo&scaron;).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once undeveloped Sava riverside area gradually gained the character of a town owing to rapid development resulting from construction of commercial warehouses, shops and European-style hotels together with the existing hans (inns for overnight stay of passengers and caravans during the Ottoman Empire). At the Little Market (nowadays Bristol Park), one of the most important points in the town, the cross made of red marble was installed as a symbol of the victory over the Turks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the second half of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century the merchants, who until then had only magazines and shops in the Savamala area, started to inhabit this area. Backfilling of Venecija Pond begun in 1867, and the area of the Railway Station was backfilled in 1882.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owing to the development of new ideas, private entrepreneurship and construction, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Sava riverside area underwent a fast transformation and urban development, thus creating a completely new image of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geopolitical changes after the First World War, dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy and forming of a new state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, led to physical declining and disregard of the Savamala area. Belgrade became the capital of a far larger state, the Sava River was no longer the border between the two countries, and the city commenced its expansion on the left Sava bank as well. From the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century until now the ideas of construction and development of the Sava riverside area have not left the urban planners and builders of Belgrade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A part of the former area of Savska Town extending from Brankov Bridge along Karadjordjeva Street to Kameni\u010dka Street is undergoing the procedure of its establishing as a cultural property &ndash; Savamala spatial and cultural historical unit.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_611285520\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stara_Zeleznicka.webp\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stara_Zeleznicka.webp 975w, https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stara_Zeleznicka-649x400.webp 649w, https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Stara_Zeleznicka-768x473.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_611285520 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-289274970\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-507256461\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Railway Station<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The works on construction of the Railway Station in Belgrade commenced on April 3, 1883, when Prince Milan Obrenovi\u0107 laid the cornerstone. The stone for construction of the station (foundation, platforms, station accesses, etc.) was transported from Top\u010dider by temporary railway constructed specially for these purposes. Works on the main passenger building were completed at the end of 1885.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Belgrade Railway Station was conceived as a bay platform terminus. The building is shaped as the Latin letter &ldquo;L&rdquo; and it has tracks on two sides &ndash; it extends parallel and perpendicular to them. The Station had three tracks for reception of passenger trains and 15 tracks for freight trains, two covered platforms, main station and several ancillary buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In comparison with the edifices which during that period and long afterwards were erected in Belgrade with identical ambition, except for its size and function, the station building stood out also because of its position &ndash; it is skillfully positioned into the axis of the then Spomeni\u010dka Street (now Nemanjina Street). Such a position of the building represented a visual marker on the sloping terrain from Slavija Square to the Sava River offering great views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the First and Second World War the Belgrade Railway Station was demolished and the greatest destruction occurred during the Allied bombing in 1944 when a part of the main passenger building was hit. Already during the winter 1944 to 1945 reconstruction of the station begun and its parts were gradually repaired for normal functioning. At the same time the ground floor between the central and right pavilions was extended. The side towers were removed from the fa&ccedil;ade in Karadjordjeva Street during the renovation in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1249298034\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bus Station<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Immediately alongside the Competition Site, along Karadjordjeva Street there was the Belgrade Bus Station (BBS) which had been the main bus station in Serbia for a long time. The Bus Station was opened in 1966. It consisted of a bus garage and two bus terminals with 65 active platforms for buses. Besides all bigger places in Serbia, by a network of bus lines, BBS covered all republics of ex-Yugoslavia and had regular bus lines with 17 European countries. Every day approx. 700 BBS buses transported more than 10 000 passengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 29, 2024 fifty minutes after midnight departed the last bus from this station for Ljubljana, and after that it ceased to operate. The new Main Bus Station was opened in the Block 42 in Novi Beograd located in the immediate vicinity of the Novi Beograd Railway Station.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-87762313\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-286643473\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(238, 236, 232);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1489719968\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Zeleznicka1.webp\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1489719968 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1175479998\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p><em>Railway Station, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1175479998 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-286643473 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-50567529\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(238, 236, 232);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1435765961\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Autobutska.webp\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1435765961 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-2848479591\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p><em>Bus Station, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-2848479591 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-50567529 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Old Post Office<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Old Post Office Building at Savski Square was constructed in 1929 on the basis of the design of the architect Momir Korunovi\u0107 in the Serbian-Byzantine style with the traces of Baroque and Romanticism. It was one of the examples of representative architecture of public buildings. To the Serbian capital the architect Momir Korunovi\u0107 bestowed the designs of many monumental edifices of specific stylistic features and that is why he was called the &ldquo;Serbian Gaudi&rdquo;. The building&rsquo;s fa&ccedil;ade is a combination of sinking and horizontal rows of windows, fascias, gables, oculi and medallions with rarely applied expressionistic fa&ccedil;ade plastics and with a dynamic look. In addition to the Romanticism, Expressionism and Secession motives, the architect added his personal mark, such as rafter forms on the roof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the Second World War during the Allied bombing in 1944 the Post Office Building sustained considerable damage, both as regards its esthetic and function. Fa&ccedil;ade, as the most representative part of the building, was completely destroyed. Reconstruction made in 1947, on the basis of the design of the architect Pavel Krat, in the style of Socialist Realism, significantly changed the original look of the building. Height of the building was reduced by two floors, all ornaments and decorative elements were removed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1172261716\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-179598603\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(238, 236, 232);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_832582188\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Savski_Trg_Konkurs-2026-000000009.webp\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_832582188 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-1352715560\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p>before World War II<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-1352715560 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-179598603 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-714432916\" class=\"col medium-6 small-12 large-6\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\" style=\"background-color:rgb(238, 236, 232);\" >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_128765783\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner dark\" >\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savskitrg-konkurs.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Istorijat_0006.webp\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#image_128765783 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"text-107995549\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p>after World War II<\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-107995549 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n<style>\n#col-714432916 > .col-inner {\n  padding: 0px 0px 5px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t<div id=\"text-3613143352\" class=\"text\">\n\t\t\n<p><em>\u201cOld Post Office\u201d Building<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\n<style>\n#text-3613143352 {\n  text-align: center;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<style>\n#section_428351357 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n  padding-bottom: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/section>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HISTORY OF THE AREA Savski Square belongs to the riverside area of the Sava River, where at the beginning of the 18th century the Lower Serbian Town (Donja srpska varo&scaron;) in Belgrade &ndash; Serbian White City (Srpski Beligrad), Savska Town (Savska varo&scaron;) or Savamala (after the Turkish word mahala denoting an urban district) was founded. 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