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The Town House at the Main Upper Town Square, an early example of developed historicism in Osijek
Dragan Damjanović
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In the course of the 19th and in the fi rst decades of the 20th century Osijek urban development was very fast after having been proclaimed royal borough. Although after 1860 the city was demographically lagging behind other political and economic centers in Croatia like Zagreb or Rijeka, its architecture emerging in that period remained one of the main residences of Croatian historicism and later of secession.
In the history of historicisric architecture in Osijek there were two outstanding periods of intensive construction during which some of the most representative buildings in the city were constructed. The fi rst took place from the beginning of the 60s of the 19th century until the beginning of economic crisis in the Monarchy in 1873. The other was signifi cantly longerit started by the end of the 80s of the 19th century and ended with the First World War. In the fi rst period of rapid urban development of Osijek many representative not only residential but also public buildings were constructed such as grammar schools, theatres and casinos in Upper Town, orphanages and hospitals. Among the most important buildings of that time was the so called “town-house” at the main Upper Town square that by its size and appearance grew into one of the city symbols. It was built according to the plans made by a national architect Alois ( Vjekoslav) Flambach. The construction was done mainly in 1872 by an architect from Timisoara Carlo Fliegauf, to whom the project had been earlier assigned. Finances for construction were secured by Slavonska komercijalna i eskomptna banka, that took over the right to hire the premises from the city for the period of 43 years. Due to fi nancial diffi culties the bank sold the major share in the house and the fi rm was established – Društvo za gradnju varoške kuće that had ownership in hiring the premises in that building until 1881 when it was sold to the Municipality due to fi nancial diffi culties that the fi rm got into. By its type it was constructed as a city council ( although it was not to be used as a council); that building was a symbol of a new role of the Upper Town in the urban structure of Osijek that started at that time to turn into the main new economic and cultural center. At the same time it was a building that by its architecture, style purity and plasticity of the facade announced the introduction of developed historicism in architecture of Osijek.
Ključne riječi
Osijek; town house; historicism; neo-renaissance; Vjekoslav (Alois) Flambach; Carl Fliegauf
Hrčak ID:
49343
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2009.
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