Belgrade Main railway station
The Main Railway Station in Belgrade Железничка станица Београд Главна / Železnička stanica Beograd Glavna (Serbian) | |
|---|---|
 The front facade of the station building. | |
| Location |
Savski trg 2 St., Belgrade Serbia |
| Owned by | Serbian Railways |
| Platforms | 6 |
| Tracks | 13 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | At-grade |
| Parking | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | August 23, 1884 |
The main railway station in Belgrade is the main Belgrade railway station. It was built between 1882 and 1885 after the designs of the architect Dragutin Milutinović, and it has the status of the сultural monument of great importance.[1]
History
It is directly connected with the construction of the first Serbian railway line Belgrade–Niš, finished in 1884. The building is constructed after the railway stations of the big European countries and is a monumental edifice. The site where the railway station was built was called Ciganska Bara and later on Bara Venecija. The first train from this station departed towards Zemun with courtly honours, on 20 August (1 September) 1884, at 3 pm.[2] The first passengers were King Мilan, Queen Natalija and the Crown Prince Аleksandar Obrenović, on the way to Vienna. More than 200 foreign guests and couple of thousands of citizens attended the opening ceremony of the station.[3] The first composition towards Niš departed three days later, whereas the first regular line to Niš started on 3/15 September at six o`clock. On the same day, the line to Pešta was established, and at the beginning only two trains a day departed on these lines.[4] From 1980 till 2009, next to the railway station entrance there used to be a locomotive of the Blue train, which was used by Marshal Tito.
The Cultural Monument
At the time of the construction, the building represented one of the most monumental buildings and the symbols of royal capital of that time. It is one of the first railway stations in Serbia, whose design included a specific architectural program and contents adapted to the European technical achievements. It is designed in the style of academism, as a representative edifice, with the dynamic floor plan. The central classicistic projection of the main entrance with the triangular tympanum dominates over the architectural composition. With its specific solutions, the building stands as a proof of the technical and architectural development of Serbia in the last decades of the 19th century.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture grada Beograda
- ↑ Srpske novine, 21 August 1884
- ↑ 24 sata“ – „Na mestu železničke stanice pre dva veka bila je bara“, 5. March 2012.
- ↑ Srpske novine, 2. September 1884.
See also
External links
Media related to Belgrade Main railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Coordinates: 44°48′31″N 20°27′20″E / 44.80861°N 20.45556°E