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Мagistrate in Zemun is located at 3, Magistrate Square and represents the immovable cultural property as the cultural monument.
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The History
The Magistrate was established in 1751 in Zemun, аnd in 1755 the town got its first Town Hall. From 1823 to plan gradske kuce iz 1836 1832 a new classicist magistrate building was constructeI It was a ground floor Baroque building with an attic, which served as a magistrate building until 1832 and since then the magistrate officials lived there. The building was burnt in the fire in 1867. From 1823 till 1832 a new classicist magistrate building was built after the designs of Zemun constructor Joseph Felber. he building was constructed from hard materials, with mezzanine arched baroque structures in the ground floor and architrave structures on the floor.
The Description
The building was shaped symmetrically, with shallow central projection ending in tympanum. It has a basement, a ground floor and the first floor. The disposition of the rooms, in two-tract scheme, was derived from the composition and the content of the Magistrate divided into several official departments.
In 1836, according to the designs signed by the city clerk Križanić, the building was enlarged into the site of the former house of Miloš Urošević. Newly built part changed its original purity of the classical concept, despite the fact that the construction and formation elements of the older part of the building were repeated consistently. Zemun Magistrate was situated in a new building until 1871, when it was handed over for the use of the Court, which stayed there for many years. Since 1997, the building is the seat of the Serbian Radical Party. Based on the special importance of this building for Zemun and based on its initial purpose, it is important to maintain the public character of the Magistrate building and to anticipate the cultural activities – Zemun library, founded in 1825 and Zemun Gallery...
The building of the Magistrate is the purest example of the classicism in the architecture of the Old Core of Zemun and material testimony to the development of the Zemun municipal administration, whose continuity reaches the year 1751.The Magistrate building in Zemun is the purest example of the classicism in the architecture of the Old Core of Zemun and a material testimony to the development of the Zemun municipal administration whose continuity goes back to the year of 1751.