Banus Palace
The Banuspalais ( Croatian Banski dvori ), also Banusresidenz , is the government building of the government of the Republic of Croatia and also houses archives and courts . It is located in the government district of the Croatian capital Zagreb .
The Banus Palace was the seat of the Banus of Croatia from 1809 to 1918 and, as the Presidential Palace ( Predsjednički dvori ), also the seat of the Croatian President in the early 1990s .
Location and construction
The Banus Palace is located in the upper town (Gornji Grad) of Zagreb, on the western side of St. Mark's Square next to St. Mark's Church . The historical building is a long, single-storey late baroque building with an adjoining palace building . The parliament building of the Croatian parliament is directly opposite .
history
The town house was Baron Ferdinand von Kulm beginning of the 19th century building. In an unfinished state, the building was bought by the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia and renovated until 1809. An apartment was set up on the first floor as the residence of the Croatian Banu. Ban Josip Jelačić (1801-1859), who is considered a national hero in Croatia, lived and died here . A single-storey palace was later attached to the building on the north side .
In the early 1990s, part of the Banus Palace was also the official residence of the Croatian President . On October 7, 1991, the Banauspalais was fired at by fighter planes of the Serb- led Yugoslav People's Army with rockets . At that time, the first Croatian President Franjo Tuđman and the President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Stjepan Mesić were in the building, who narrowly escaped death. In the attack one person was killed and four others were injured. Thereupon the Republic of Croatia declared itself independent on October 8, 1991 and broke off all diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Today the Presidential Palace ( Predsjednički dvori ) is the official seat of the President, immediately adjacent to the city center at the foot of the Medvednica Mountains in the posh Pantovčak district .
Front view of the Banus Palace (2009)
Aerial photo of the Banuspalais (2008)
The Markus place in the Zagreb upper town with the Banuspalais, the Markuskirche and the Parliament House of Sabor (v. L. N. R.)
Memorial plaque to the bombardment of the Banus Palace in 1991
Web links
source
- Nikola Štambak (ed.): Zagreb . Masmedia doo, Zagreb 2004, ISBN 953-157-465-0 , p. 53 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′ 58.6 ″ N , 15 ° 58 ′ 22.9 ″ E