NARODNIH HEROJA 7- SECONDARY SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
On the site of the current building, there was originally a ground-floor Chamber House, which from 1748 to 1786 housed the Magistrate.
On Sauter’s map from 1885, the building’s footprint is marked as a public object labeled Stadt Haus, indicating the second relocation of the Magistrate to this location (1855–1895). The house was demolished in 1898, and in its place, a two-story Trade Academy was built, with a wing extending from the center of the courtyard façade.
This was followed by a ground-floor wing containing a gymnasium and a janitor’s apartment. The second floor was added in 1926, along with an additional courtyard wing. The project was designed by Aleksandar Šumaher, and the construction work was carried out by contractor Mihajlo Plavec.
The building was used by the Financial Directorate.
The interior was adapted in 1944 based on a design by Budapest architect Vojtech Jozef.
Since 1948, the building has housed a Secondary Technical School, and later, up to the present day, the Secondary School of Economics.
The street façade is designed with ten window axes.
At the corners are tall semicircular entrances with wooden doors and transom windows above, closed with wrought iron grilles in the Art Nouveau style.
Between the entrance doors is a series of semicircular windows. The ground-floor wall surface is finished in rusticated masonry, with two cantilevered end elements above the entrances.
On the upper floors are double-wing architrave windows richly decorated with two types of pediment motifs. The façade wall between them is finished with brickwork.
The entrance hall is on two levels, connected by five steps made of pink stone. Above it is a Prussian vault, and the walls are decorated with stucco Art Nouveau reliefs. Leading toward the courtyard façade is a double-flight staircase with a cast iron railing, also in an Art Nouveau design. The interior layout is organized with corridors and a series of adjoining rooms. On the ground and first floors, there are six classrooms each, and on the second floor, there are nine.
The realisation of this site was supported by the Administration for Culture of the City of Novi Sad
The sources and materials of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of the City of Novi Sad were used for the realization of this website
The Old Core of Novi Sad was declared a cultural asset, by the decision on establishing it as a spatial cultural-historical unit – 05 no. 633-151/2008 of January 17, 2008, “Sl. gazette of the Republic of Serbia” no. 07/2008.
