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53-602: Monument to the Liberators of Belgrade in Karađorđe's Park is an authentic historical place of the camp of the main insurgent army and of the military cemetery of the liberators of Belgrade under Karađorđe during the Siege of Belgrade in 1806. The monument in the cemetery was erected by Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević in 1848. It is the first monument in Belgrade erected in the honour of

106-436: A historical event, and at the same time the first public monument. The park itself, with the cemetery and the monument is the only place with preserved authentic material remains that document the sojourn of the insurgent army in Belgrade, and evoke the memory of the capturing of Belgrade in 1806. The last remains of the insurgents' cemetery, which occupied a large part of the park, are the remaining twelve tombstones placed in

159-481: A local community ( mesna zajednica ), a sub-municipal unit within Vračar. The local community of Neimar existed until the late 2000s, when the municipality of Vračar abolished local communities. In the 1990s, adjoining local community of France Rozman was annexed to Neimar. Population of Neimar in that period was 8,205 (14,493 with France Rozman) in 1981, 7,186 (12,800) in 1991 and 12,058 in 2002. The "Neimar" company in

212-560: A park in the south-east part. Construction company "Neimar" was founded in 1919 and in 1920 they purchased the land from Tadić. Original plans for the neighborhood were made in 1921 by the Viennese architects Emil Hoppe , Otto Schönthal and Marcel Kammerer  [ de ] , all pupils of Otto Wagner . After several disagreements with the city administration, the plan was finally approved on 12 June 1924. The area set for urbanization covered 24 ha (59 acres). The plan envisioned that

265-410: A row during the reconstruction of the park. These memorials with stylized crosses and zig-zag lines resemble in type the rural tombstones from that period in the area around Belgrade. The monument from 1848 is very modest in form and in decoration. It is 547 cm high, made of yellowish stone and covered with the artificial stone. The marble plaques mounted on the sides bear the text of dedication and

318-521: Is an elementary school "Svetozar Marković" in the neighborhood. Founded in 1950 as the "10th Eight-grade School", it was renamed in 1951. The school had no permanent building until the present edifice was built specifically for this purpose, and opened on 20 October 1954. A fragmented section of the Mačvanska Street was renamed Mome Kapora Street, in honor of author, painter and Belgrade chronicler Momo Kapor . A small square which connects two parts of

371-556: Is elongated in the north to south direction, bordered by the Boulevard of the Liberation on the west and the Nebojšina street on the east. Today, Karađorđev Park in the term of neighborhood covers larger area than the park itself. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Vračar on the north, Neimar on the east and Autokomanda on the south, but the term spread on the area west and northwest of

424-595: Is entirely a residential area. The neighborhood is bounded by some of the most important streets for city's transportation, like the Boulevard of the Liberation (west), South Boulevard and the highway (including the Autokomanda interchange , both south) but itself represents a web of short, narrow streets. Until the 1990s the neighborhood managed to preserve its old architecture (mostly short buildings and family houses with yards), but since then several blocks of modern complexes with higher buildings have been constructed. There

477-626: Is one of the major routes to downtown Belgrade. Area is mostly non-residential, with public buildings (the Faculty of the veterinarian medicine of the University of Belgrade , many clinics of the Belgrade Clinical Center, Children University Hospital, Belgrade Meteorological Station , etc.). The predecessor to the modern park was a camp set by the Serbian army in 1806 during the siege of Belgrade in

530-487: Is sometimes described as the oldest park in Belgrade, but the proper park was planted only in 1848. In 1979, Karađorđev Park was added to Historic Landmarks of Great Importance list, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia . Karađorđev Park is located on the southern slope of the Vračar hill, beginning at the Vračar plateau and the National Library of Serbia and ending at the highway interchange of Autokomanda . It

583-661: The First Serbian Uprising . After the Serbs secured Belgrade, soldiers killed in the battle on the liberation day, 30 November 1806, were buried at this place. In 1806 the first trees were planted at the burial place, chestnut trees and black locusts . The burial site was arranged as the Insurgents Cemetery in 1848, when the Monument to the Liberators of Belgrade was also erected. The 5.5 m (18 ft) tall memorial

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636-499: The Karađorđe monument in Kalemegdan , in 1916, it was proposed after the war that new monument should be built in the park, close to the tombs of his comrades-in-arms. Also after the war, the park got its present name. The monument to Karađorđe was erected only in 1979, but it is located across the park. It is situated on the Vračar plateau , on the top of the mound at the entry section of

689-506: The Karađorđev Park . Uninhabited slope from Čubura to the Čuburski potok valley (modern South Boulevard) was included into the city's construction plans in 1906. At that time, it was occupied by the fields, orchards and vineyards, mostly belonging to the merchant Panta Tadić. First regulatory plan, which included proposed streets layout, is from 1907 and the land was parceled in 1908. It envisioned an irregular street plan, two squares and

742-617: The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts , said that "caricatural architecture, inept compilations and stylish nonsenses" turned once respectable residential neighborhood of Neimar, so as Senjak and Dedinje , into chaos. At some point, the neighborhood was placed under the preliminary legal protection. This protection expired in December 2020, and the vacuum in the protection was used by some investors who rushed to purchase lots with villas and obtain building permits. Citizens' groups pushed for

795-454: The Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia . After the 1960s, when the central pavilion with small pools was adapted for children's use, the park got its present appearance. In 1975 another monument was erected, dedicated to the victims of the 1941 bombing. In 1979 the park was declared a cultural monument. Neglected for a long time, Karađorđev Park went through massive reconstruction and beautification in

848-643: The First Serbian Uprising, which broke out in 1804. The works began only in 1907, after king Peter I Karađorđević became also president of the Society for the Embellishment of the Monuments, Parks and Environment. The society leveled the park's terrain, created pathways, planted grass, lindens, chestnuts and decorative shrubs. The hedge, which encircled the park was also planted, while thujas were planted around

901-630: The Home of the Saint John of Capistrano . New monumental pipe organ was installed in 2000. Since 2001, the cathedral hosts an annual international music festival "Days of pipe organ - Dies organorum". The interior of the new church was painted in the mixed Catholic- Orthodox manner, sometimes described as the result of the "picturesque illustration of the confusing encounter of the East and West in Belgrade". Virgin Mary

954-472: The area in the early 1920s. Their children were taught by the Assumptionist nuns and the monks built the church in 1924-1925, which was colloquially called the "French church" by the local population. The church was consecrated by Angelo Roncalli, at the time Holy See 's apostolic visitor to Bulgaria , and the future pope John XXIII . In 1930, the monumental belfry was erected, consisting of three bells:

1007-559: The area of the Habsburg monarchy , under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci . On all four sides of the monument there are marble plaques with engraved inscription, which flows continuously: Aleksandar Karađorđevićthe Prince of Serbia, 1848, in the honour and glory of the Serbian heroes who bravely died for their homeland in 1806, erects this monument. Subsequently, the plaque with

1060-535: The central section of the park were also built. After the war, a monument to the International Brigades , dedicated to the fighters in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, was placed in the park in 1950. A small, pavilion-type ground floor house in the central part of the park, next to the swimming pools, was built in the 1950s, and in the 1960s, the venue was adapted into the children's cultural center by

1113-551: The completion of the complex, will started in June 2019. Opening of the new pastoral center marked the completion of the works on 10 September 2022. The first such venue in Archdiocese of Belgrade , it was named after Pope John the Good . Bel tower was embellished with the large mosaic representing Transfiguration of Jesus on the mount . The theme was chosen as Pope Callixtus III selected it as

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1166-653: The contract, city acknowledged the plan in 1922. Though the buyers could use the architects by their own choice, they had to follow the rules set by the original plan of the neighborhood. They could also contract the "Neimar" company, in which case they had a discount. The owners hired most eminent Serbian architects for their villas, including Branko Tanazević , Dragomir Tadić  [ sr ] , Milan Zloković , Milutin Borisavljević  [ sr ] ] and Momir Korunović . As it consisted solely of villas with yards, it took some time for Neimar to fully develop, but by

1219-447: The corners has rectangular protuberances with the emblem of Serbia , while on the top there is a cross with the inscription on the front and the back side: The year of 1806. The memorial has double religious and national symbolism and represents one of the first public monuments erected in Belgrade and in Serbia . The form and the function originate from the public religious monuments built in

1272-404: The early 1930s also drafted the plan for the modern urbanization of the right bank of the Čuburski Potok. This proposed neighborhood, spreading between the modern Južni Bulevar and Gospodara Vučića was named Novi Neimar (New Neimar). It was envisioned similarly like Neimar itself, as the suburban garden city, or garden quarter. The project wasn't realized. Old, small houses were mostly replaced by

1325-420: The early 2000s which completely rejuvenated the park, including new benches, children's playgrounds and candelabra . The idea at the time was to turn it into the first English type park in Belgrade, with added wall around the park, gates with porters and working hours, but after the failed bids for the job, the idea was put on hold. The central pavilion was abandoned, the pools were covered with earth in 2003 and

1378-524: The flowers were planted. There was another, even smaller, green pavilion, at the plateau behind the house. It was used for selling food and beverages but was demolished later. In September 2019, it was announced that the house will be adapted into the " Momo Kapor Endowment". First plans for the Momo Kapor's pavilion were made public in March 2023. The pavilion will be preserved (330 m (3,600 sq ft)),

1431-483: The former street, and the third, Tamnavska Street, was adapted into the Plateau of Momo Kapor. The granite-cobbled square was opened on 28. December 2016, and serves as an outdoor cultural stage. In the central area of the neighborhood there is a park. Formerly known as Neimar Park, it is today officially named Park of Jelena Šantić. It covers 0.59 hectares (1.5 acres). In 2019, Branislav Mitrović, architect and member of

1484-581: The full protection of the entire Neimar slope of the Vračar hill, under the name of Kotež Neimar. In April 2021 it was announced that, by June, city's Institute for the Cultural Monuments Protection will decide whether Neimar will be proclaimed a cultural monument. This didn't happen, and demolition of old villas continued, either without permits with inspections halting works when demolition is already finished, speedy demolishing them in only couple of hours, or even tearing down houses which are in

1537-682: The highrise along the Južni Bulevar since World War II. The neighborhood, which makes the southernmost section of the Vračar municipality today, was organized as the local community of Franc Rozman with the population of 6,288 in 1981 and 5,614 in 1991, before it was administratively annexed to Neimar. The street of Hadži Milentijava in Neimar is the location of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary . A group of French business people settled in

1590-462: The idea, citing lack of necessary funds. One of the first avenues in Belgrade was planted along the Kragujevac Road (modern Liberation Boulevard), in 1848, from which the park developed in time. The planted seedlings were of chestnut trees, and the chestnut alley descending from the original one still survives in the park. By 1887, the cemetery and monument became neglected. After ascending to

1643-606: The largest was donation of the king Alexander I of Yugoslavia , middle one was sent from the Vatican and the smallest one was purchased from the donation of the adherents. In 1938 the Assumptionists began building a new church, envisioned as the memorial church for the French and Serbian soldiers killed in the World War I , with the addition of the clergy house and the monastery. The church

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1696-562: The monastery, was chosen because of his participation in the successful defense of the city during the 1456 Siege of Belgrade . He personally commanded the detachment consisting of the Crusaders and strongly pushed for the all-European Crusade against the Ottoman Turks . The entire complex is known as the Marijanum. As it was actually never fully completed, a massive reconstruction, including

1749-508: The monument. This way, more or less, the present borders of the park were set. Also, during these works, an artificial hill with gazebo on its top was built. Plans were made to erect a Monument to the Third-Class Reservists in 1914, but due to the outbreak of World War I , the monument was erected on 29 July 1923. After the war, additional monuments were erected in the park. Since the occupational Austro-Hungarian forces demolished

1802-495: The music shows. Facing the diminished interest among the younger generations to serve in the church, the Assumptionists left in 1982. Catholics took over the church and after almost 50 years continued the construction of the church in 1987. The new church was consecrated and declared a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belgrade in 1988. The monastery and the adjoining auxiliary edifices were transformed into

1855-566: The outbreak of World War II it was deemed one of the most beautiful neighborhoods of Belgrade. It had a direct public transportation bus line to downtown, Knežev spomenik -Neimar . The inspiration for the design of the neighborhood came from the complex built in 1912 along the Daviel Street  [ fr ] in Paris . It consisted of 40 one-floor houses with gardens, indented from the main street. As walkways became larger this way, lawns along

1908-519: The park (former sections of Zapadni Vračar and Englezovac / Savinac , respectively), so basically all the area along the Boulevard of Liberation from Autokomanda to the Slavija square is today called Karađorđev Park. Across the northernmost top of the park to the west is another park, Park Milutin Milanković . It is one of the busiest parts of Belgrade with very dense traffic as the Boulevard of Liberation

1961-427: The park. These memorials with stylized crosses and zig zag lines resemble in type the rural tombstones from that period in the area around Belgrade The monument is built of the ashlar stone and covered with artificial stone. It is constructed in the style of neoclassicism . In the base there is a three-levelled pedestal with cubic form on the top, with the inscriptions in marble, on all four sides. The finishing part in

2014-523: The path which leads to the Church of Saint Sava . Also during the Interbellum, a monument to Alphonse de Lamartine was erected. At the end of this period, an underground shelter was hastily built under the park. On the very first day of German attack , during the massive bombing of Belgrade on 6 April 1941 , the shelter was directly hit, killing almost 200 people in it. Three small, shallow swimming pools in

2067-444: The plan, and he approved it, even commended it, though he suggested few minor corrections. Still, city rejected the project, saying the general plan wasn't finished. In order to speed up the construction, the company took on itself to construct fences around the blocks, waterworks, sewage system and sidewalks, which was city's obligation, and in the end took city administration to the court. Aware that they are not fulfilling their part of

2120-426: The plateau in front of it will be paved with stone slabs in the color of pavilion's façade (792 m (8,530 sq ft)), and swimming pools will be revitalized as the "linear shallow decorative water surface" (133 m (1,430 sq ft)). The fountain will be added to the plateau complex, which will serve as an open air public cultural scene. On 23 October 2023, a monument to General Božidar Janković

2173-405: The process of protection evaluation. When Belgrade was administratively divided into the municipalities in 1952, Neimar became one of the city's municipalities, with the population of 28,885 by the 1953 census. On 1 January 1957 it merged with the municipality of Istočni Vračar and part of the municipality of Terazije to create the modern municipality of Vračar. Later, Neimar was organized as

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2226-418: The settlement will have only family villas. The villas were organized around the 8 small squares. The grid laid by the architects is the one still existing today. However, despite the massive illegal building throughout the city after the war, it took 3 years for "Neimar" to obtain the building permit. City asked architect Đorđe Kovaljevski, who was drafting the general plan for entire Belgrade, for his opinion on

2279-417: The south-western corner of the municipality. It occupies the south-eastern slope of the Vračar hill, which descends to the former valleys of the creeks of Mokroluški potok (now a highway) and Čuburski potok (now a South Boulevard). It borders the neighborhoods of Vračar on the north, Čubura on the north-east (sub-neighborhood of Gradić Pejton ) and east, Autokomanda on the south while on the west it leans on

2332-449: The streets were introduced into the urban architecture. This style became very popular across the Europe. A whole string of new neighborhoods like this encircled eastern outskirts of Belgrade, including Neimar, with names usually containing "suburb" and some member of the royal family . These original names either never became popular or were suppressed after World War II and replaced. Neimar

2385-406: The text about the renovation of the monument in 1889. Karađorđev Park is an authentic historical place of the camp of the main insurgent army and the place of the military cemetery of the liberators of Belgrade under Karađorđe in 1806. The last remains of the insurgents' cemetery, which occupied a large part of the park, are the remaining twelve tombstones placed in a row during the reconstruction of

2438-452: The throne in 1889, king Alexander Obrenović ordered for the cemetery to be arranged. The remaining tombs were rearranged, the monument was renovated and the metal fence was placed around it, while the seedlings of black locust were planted in order to form the memorial park. As the king was coming from the Obrenović dynasty , a fierce rival of the former (and future) Karađorđević dynasty, this

2491-437: Was added, with the inscription, dedicated to the reconstruction of the monument: Reconstructed during the reign of King Aleksandar Karađorđević V. 44°47′40.93″N 20°27′59.13″E  /  44.7947028°N 20.4664250°E  / 44.7947028; 20.4664250 Kara%C4%91or%C4%91e%27s Park As the first trees in modern park were planted in 1806, it is considered a predecessor of all green areas in Belgrade. It

2544-463: Was dedicated in the park, close to the Monument to the Liberators of Belgrade. It marked the 120th anniversary of the Society of War Volunteers. The park covers an area of 2.52 hectares (6.2 acres). Monuments in the park include: Neimar Neimar ( Serbian : Неимар ) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade , Serbia . It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Vračar . The settlement

2597-514: Was designed by architect Branislav Marinković. Due to the outbreak of the World War II , the new church remained unfinished with only the walls of the building and first levels of belfry being finished. After the war new Communist authorities basically commandeered it. It was used as the storage unit for the factories but, due to the good acoustics, it was used by the Radio Belgrade for taping

2650-474: Was one of the first public monuments in Belgrade. Out of the 50 original tombstones, 12 still survives. The patron of the monument was Aleksandar Karađorđević , the ruling prince of Serbia, and son of the First Serbian Uprising leader and the founder of the Karađorđević royal family, Karađorđe . After the monument was erected, it was suggested that the park should be planted around it. City officials dismissed

2703-486: Was originally named Kotež Neimar. Kotež is a Serbian rendering of the French cottage , a suburban settlement of individual residential houses. Neimar was the name of the construction society on whose land the neighborhood was built. The word itself, neimar , means a builder or mason, and entered Serbian language via Turkish from the Arabic mi'mar . Neimar is located 2 km (1.2 mi) south-east of downtown Belgrade, in

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2756-625: Was presented in both traditions, in the Orthodox one in the lower section and in the Western Marian iconography in the upper section. She is surrounded by both the Catholic and Orthodox saints, including the father of the Serbian church, Saint Sava . Remaining from the French Assumptionists, there is a Gallic rooster on the cross above the old belfry. Saint John of Capistrano, whose name bears

2809-467: Was seen as the kings attempt to reconcile two ruling families. Also, after creation of this one, numerous other memorial parks began to form throughout Serbia. Another dynastic change followed in 1903, when the Karađorđević dynasty was restored the Serbian throne. Originally outside of the urban core of Belgrade, there were plans for the enlargement of the park 1903-1904, in order to mark the centennial of

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