Palata Albanija

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Palata Albanija
The previous building at the same location Kod Albanije, 1914

The Palata Albania (Serbian: Палата "Албанија" / Palata "Albanija" ) is a high-rise building on the Terazije in Belgrade , Serbia . The building was the first building in the Bauhaus style and for a long time was the tallest in Belgrade and the former Yugoslavia . The Palata Albania is 53 m high and has 13 floors. At the time of completion in 1940 it was the tallest skyscraper in Southeast Europe . The building is on the list of monuments of the city of Belgrade.

location

The skyscraper is at the northwest end of Terazije, at the beginning of Knez Mihailova ulica . From here the Kralja Milana leads to Slavija .

architecture

The building was built between 1938 and 1940 by Miladin Prljević and Đorđe Lazarević based on plans by Branko Bon and Milan Grakalić, originally for a bank. The name goes back to the previous building, a café called Albanija .

history

The previous building was from the 19th century. The coffee house Kod Albanije (1914), later Restaurant Albanija (1938), with the striking public clock on the forecourt, was a popular meeting place for Belgrade residents.

For a long time, the Palata Albanija was Belgrade's political shop window, on which, in addition to political slogans, the portrait of Tito and the five-pointed Soviet star were displayed. The large portrait of Tito, like the Soviet star, disappeared in the early 1950s.

On October 20, 1944, the red flag was hoisted on the building and the liberation of Belgrade from the Nazis was announced.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Palata “Albanija” (English / Serbian) on beogradskonasledje.rs (accessed January 24, 2013)
  2. ^ The Yugoslav economic miracle . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/1958

Web links

Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 54.2 "  N , 20 ° 27 ′ 36.4"  E