1975Detelinara
The last house left standing between the new blocks
A single storey house with a steep tiled roof and a plain rendered front stands alone on a corner of bare ground. It has two small windows to the street, a house number by the door, and a high blank gable at one end. Around it the ground has been stripped to sand and rubble, with a strip of rough grass and a chain link fence enclosing a narrow garden of young plants. A weathered timber paling runs away to the right and a row of dark conifers stands behind it. Hard against the house on the left rises a new concrete block of flats, six or more storeys of pale panels and open balconies, its ground floor still unfinished with a heap of builder's spoil at its foot. A second slab shows further back and a white building with a taller roof stands behind the conifers.
About this place
Detelinara is a residential district in the western part of Novi Sad, named after the clover that once grew on it. In the 1920s the ground here was open land largely sown with clover, which people cut and sold to the nearby military garrison. Settled after the First World War, the district is split by Kornelija Stankovića street into Stara Detelinara to the south, built up in the 1920s and 1930s on small family plots, and Nova Detelinara to the north, filled with blocks of flats after the Second World War. Its growth followed the Majevica barracks and the neighbouring military aerodrome, which became the largest in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; about 44,000 people live in the three local communities that cover the area today.
- Date
- 1975
- Coordinates
- 45.26158, 19.81301
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1377 × 1033 px
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