Tašmajdan
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The Tašmajdan Park ( Serbian Ташмајдански парк Tašmajdanski park ), more commonly Tašmajdan or just Taš , is a public park and a residential area in Belgrade in the Palilula district .
location
Tašmajdan begins 600 meters southeast of Belgrade's main square, Terazije . It occupies the extreme southwest corner of the Palilula district and borders the districts of Vračar in the south and Stari Grad in the west. The park covers an area bounded by the streets Takovska in the northwest and Ilije Garašanina in the northeast as well as the Beogradska in the southeast and the Ulica Kralja Aleksandra .
history
During the siege of Belgrade in the autumn of 1806, Karađorđe pitched a camp here and set up a tent. After the Second Serbian Uprising , Miloš Obrenović ordered the relocation of the old Serbian cemetery from the city gate to Tašmajdan around 1826 in order to be able to build a Serbian urban area in Savamala. The old St. Mark's Church was built on the Tašmajdan plateau in 1835 (destroyed in the bombing of Belgrade on April 6, 1941). The hatischerif (decree) of the sultan on the internal independence of Serbia was read out on the Tašmajdan on November 30, 1830 . In 1909 a seismological station was built here , which is still there today.
Attractions
In Tašmajdan and its surroundings are the St. Mark's Church (the new one, built between 1931 and 1936), the Russian Church (1924), the main post office (1934), the sports and leisure center "Tašmajdan", the hotels "Taš" and " Metropol Palace ”, the café“ Madera ”, the RTS building (radio and television Serbia) and a children's amusement park.
Sports facilities
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Within Tašmajdan there are a number of sports facilities in the Tašmajdan Sports Center ( Sportski rekreativni centar ). This includes a bathing establishment with indoor and outdoor pools and stands for 2000 spectators, a diving tower with diving boards of 1, 3, 5 and 10 m and 16 underwater windows for underwater recordings. In 1973 the first world championship in water polo and high diving was held in the swimming pool of the sports center, in 2009 some competitions of the Summer Universiade were held . In addition to a non-swimmer course, there is also a school for synchronized swimming, water polo and diving.
The Tašmajdan open-air stadium can accommodate 5,000 spectators in the stands. It is intended for five-a-side football, basketball, fencing and volleyball. The leisure center offers aerobics, fitness, massage, bodybuilding and corrective gymnastics programs as well as a sauna and solarium. The sports and leisure center also includes the Hala Pionir and the Ledena dvorana Pionir .
Web links
- Homepage of the Tašmajdan Sports Center (English, Serbian)
- Page about the Belgrade parks on the homepage of the City of Belgrade (German)
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 33 ″ N , 20 ° 28 ′ 15 ″ E