Stambol kapija

The former Stambol Gate as Felix Philipp Kanitz has seen

Stambol kapija ( Serbian - Cyrillic Стамбол капија ) was one of the four earlier city ​​gates of the municipality of Belgrade , which provided access to the city.

history

The gate was the main gate of Belgrade on the military road to Istanbul , hence the derivation of the Serbian name ( Stambol is the Serbian name for Istanbul). The Belgrade community moved from the Save to the Danube in the 18th and 19th centuries and was protected by a deep moat and palisade. Located in front of Kalemegdan, the actual city of Belgrade, the current districts comprised Savski Venac , Stari grad and Dorčol .

The Stamboltor stood on the square in front of today's Serbian National Theater near the current monument to Prince Mihailo Obrenović on what is now Trg Republike in the city center. Of all the gates of the Belgrade parish, Stambol kapija was the best fortified.

The city gate was built by the Austrians during the occupation from 1718 to 1739 and was originally named after the Austrian city prefect Karl Alexander Württembergtor. It stood in front of a simple green area on which two paths to Terazije and Tašmajdan forked. Since the convicted agitators were staked on display at the Stamboltor, this gate was so hated that it was demolished in 1866 on the decree of Prince Mihajlo.

The gate had three passages, of which the middle one, the largest, was passable for wagons. When Ernst Gideon von Laudon captured Belgrade for the Austrians in 1789, he removed the tablet of Sultan Mehmed I from there and brought it to Vienna, where it still adorns his grave in the Vienna Woods , along with other military plaques .

During the First Serbian Uprising of 1806, Vasa Čarapić , one of the leaders of the uprising, died at Stamboltor . In memory of this, one of the surrounding streets bears his name.

Web links

• Stambol kapija and Trg Republike . Website of the city of Belgrade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dnevno.rs: Srušena Stambol kapija u Beogradu - 1866. godina
2. ↑ newsweek.rs: Mračna tajna Trga republike: Evo zašto je srušena Stambol kapija ( Memento of the original from 10 November 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 59.6 ″  N , 20 ° 27 ′ 37.3 ″  E