The Habag palace. For the political, economic, cultural and social organizations of Germans in Vojvodina, a central building was erected. According to the plans of the architect Oscar Packow and the architect Philipp Schmidt, the construction of the Habag Palace began in 1929. In 1931 the building was completed, it became a kind of centre of the Germans in Vojvodina, where all important socia
About this place
The Habag palace stands at the start of Vase Stajića street, on the corner of what is now Trg galerija, and was completed in 1931 as the central building of the German community in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It held the offices of the Kulturbund and of the German agricultural credit cooperative Agraria, and a well known café called Habag occupied the ground floor. Sources disagree about who designed it: Serbian accounts credit the Vršac architect Viljem Rihard, while the German heritage project Danube Places names the architect Oskar Pakvor and the builder Philipp Schmidt, so the attribution should be treated as unsettled. Construction is usually dated from 1929 to 1931.
- Date
- 1933
- Coordinates
- 45.25244, 19.84528
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1535 × 953 px
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