1895–1918Wheat Square
The Serbian elementary school on the corn market square
A long two storey school building runs away from the left foreground down one side of a wide cobbled street. Its ground floor is plain and its upper floor carries tall windows between flat pilasters under a heavy cornice, with a small pedimented attic over the centre and lettering set into the wall beneath it. A projecting porch with a pediment on brackets stands at the near end, and a line of young bare trees is planted along the pavement in front, each with a guard. A low iron railing on a stone plinth runs along the left edge of the frame. Groups of children and a few adults stand along the pavement and a woman in a long dark skirt waits by the porch. The roadway is empty. Further down, the street narrows between lower buildings and market stalls with white canopies stand at the right, with shop lettering on a gable above them.
About this place
The Wheat Square was made at the end of the eighteenth century when the grain market was moved out of the main street, today's Zmaj Jovina, onto a stretch of the town's great bazaar. It runs about 210 metres and stands where the old road north to Temerin and on to Budapest left the town. The square carried the name Zitni trg until 1927, when it was renamed for Princess Zorka; the old name came back during the occupation in the Second World War, after which it became Svetozar Marković Square, and since 2001 it has been named for the benefactor Marija Trandafil. A Turkish caravanserai stood on it from 1748 until the bombardment of 1849, and the buildings that replaced it include the Serbian primary school of 1874, the orphanage endowed by Marija Trandafil in 1912 that now houses Matica srpska, and the craftsmen's hall of 1938. Trams crossed the square from 1911 until 1958.
- Date
- 1895–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25944, 19.84434
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 930 × 457 px
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