Karamata family home

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Karamata family home
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place Zemun - Belgrade , Serbia Karamatina 17
Construction year 1783/1827

The Karamata family home is a cultural monument in Belgrade . It is located in Zemun , at 17 Karamatina Street.

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The house consists of the ground floor and one floor with a simple roof and one floor with a basement and a mansard roof . All three parts are connected to one another with a uniquely worked facade and have a common main entrance. The highest part of the building was erected in 1764 by the merchant Kuzman Jovanović. Dimitrije Karamata, an immigrant from Katranica, from what was then Turkish-Aegean Macedonia (now Pyrgi in Greece) bought the building in 1772 for 4,000 forints. The building is still owned by the Karamata family today.

In the plans of Zemun, the building, at the end of the 18th century, has the current gabarit. Jovan Karamata, the son of Dimitrije, added one floor to the middle part of the house in 1827 and adapted the entire building. The facade with the gate, above which the year 1827 is listed, is unique from this period. The facade is in the style of classicism and empire , while the building as a whole has the characteristics of a typical urban baroque house . The former baroque gate was in the eastern part of the building. The builders of the house are so far unknown. There are also no original plans. The building represents one of the most important monuments of the old core of Zemun.

During the Austro-Turkish War in 1788, Emperor Joseph II and his staff settled in the house of the Karamata family . The council of war was held there, in which, in addition to Joseph II, field marshals Lazy and Laudon also participated. On this occasion, the carved and painted coat of arms with the two-headed Austrian eagle and the symbols of the monarchy, probably the work of a local woodcarver, was attached to the ceiling of the salon on the first floor. During the Serbian Movement 1848-49, the Serbian Patriarch Josef Rajačić settled in the building. Meetings of the Central People's Committee of Vojvodina of Serbia, at which Atanas Karamata was the treasurer, were also held in this building . There was also Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , along with other well-known personalities .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zavod za zaštitu spomenika grada Beograda . beogradskonasledje.rs
  2. ↑ Želljko Škalamera: Staro jezero Zemun II. ZZSKGB, Belgrade, 1967.
  3. ↑ Aleksandra Dabižić: The house of the Karamata family . Catalog. ZZSKGB, Belgrade 2011, ISBN 978-86-81157-46-6 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 50 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 20 ° 24 ′ 42.2 ″  E