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It has not changed its name for 150 years, but 41 is a cultural asset of exceptional importance, pedestrians have reigned in it for 33 years, but Knez Mihailova street will improve one in 2021 after 40 years: the rules of arrangement, construction and protection. The initiative for the development of a new planning document came from the city’s Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, because the existing one, adopted in 1980, expires on April 30 of next year. Until then, a new detailed regulatory plan should come into force, the development of which has been entrusted to the Belgrade Urban Institute.
– The spatial, architectural, urban and environmental values of the Knez Mihailova street area represent the most important cultural-historical and monumental unit of Belgrade, in which the emergence and growth of the central part of the city is materially evidenced. The preparation of the planning document is certainly an opportunity for the unreserved storage and care of these values, say Sanja Djordjevic and Dr. Marija Lalosevic, managers of the development of a plan for the detailed regulation of the wider area throughout from Knez Mihailova Street.
The boundaries of the document, which covers an area of about 18 hectares, include part of the territory of the old town: the area between Knez Mihailova, Kralja Petra, Uzun Mirkova, Studentski trg, Vase Carapic, Trg republike, Sremske, Marshala Birjuzova, Carica Milica , Cara Lazar. , Gračanica and Paris.
One of the novelties in the future planning document, which should be in the public domain next month, is that it could include the Republic Square and the green area of Paris Street, blocks between the streets where the “Albania Palace” is located. “and the mall. on the opposite side of the most famous promenade in Serbia. The expansion of the borders of the new Knez Mihailova street plan was proposed by the institutes of the republic and the city for the protection of cultural monuments, they say in the institute of the city.
If the City Plans Commission respects the initiative to expand the limits of the plan, it means that a document will cover this entire spatial, historical-cultural ensemble, for which Knez Mihailova was proclaimed in 1964.
Since then, the street has seen numerous construction projects, many of which were not to the liking of the belgraders, but few of them protested when cars were driven off it. It was in 1987, during the time of Mayor Aleksandar Bakočević. That job was given to the famous urban planner Branislav Jovin, who gave it to Knez in just six months, which is today, when the deadlines for street reconstructions are broken for a year, in the domain of science fiction.
Reconstruction started in May. We work day and night, without vacations. The heating pipe was introduced and 28 boiler rooms were closed. Near the “Tsar of Russia” a monument to Emilian Josimovic, the first Serbian urban planner, was erected and next to him a plaque was found under the asphalt, a dedication to the youth work actions that renovated the street in 1949. The inauguration was Belgrade Liberation Day at 6:00 p.m., when the lights were turned on. A year later, in 1988, a section of the street of the Palace “Albania”, “Majestic” and the area in front of the old cinema “Jadran” was arranged, a fountain and a mini-amphitheater were set up where poetry evenings were held.
Even such a transformation of the Prince did not go well. The conceptual solution for the reconstruction of the street from “Tsar of Ruski” to Kalemegdan (940 meters, 13,500 square meters, width 16 to 28 meters) was questioned by a commission of experts because, among other things, they did not like the idea to pave the street with Jablanica granite eight centimeters thick. . The municipal institute for the protection of cultural monuments did not want to approve the line of trees, 14 oaks, with the explanation that until then they had not been on the street.
– I defended myself that the streets have no trees, streets without life, without transformation. The prince is not the same in spring, when the canopy turns green, and in autumn, when it turns red – said the late Jovin in one of the last interviews for “Politika”.
Treasury of cultural monuments
Within Knez Mihailova Street, as a spatial, cultural and historical ensemble, there are 24 cultural monuments of exceptional importance. Some of them are the Captain Miša building, the National Museum, the National Bank, the Prince Mihailo Monument, the SANU Palace, the “Russian Tsar” cafe, the Press Room, the “Progress” building, the house of the editorial and bookstore Gece Kona, the hotel “Majestic” … 2
Historical textbook
In Roman times, one of the main access roads was along the route of the current Knez Mihailova. In the first half of the 16th century, the old Roman was restored and a new water supply system was built along the street, a condition for the construction of the settlement. The Turks built five mosques with neighborhoods and the Austrians, when they conquered Belgrade in 1717, demolished houses and mosques and erected new buildings. With the departure of the Turks from Belgrade in 1867 and the acceptance of western urban models, the transformation of the city began. Based on Emilijan Josimović’s 1867 regulation plan, Knez Mihailova Street was laid out. Representatives of the bourgeois class and the merchant class erected buildings and palaces on it and opened commercial stores. At the end of the 20th century, exclusively commercial, Knez Mihailova Street became the cultural center of the capital. Today it has been called since 1871, and before it was called Delijska.
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