ZMAJ JOVINA 11

This two-story corner house was, probably, built in the late 18th century, and rebuilt in the early 1850s after the 1849 bombing (during the 1848–49 revolutions in the Habsburg Empire. It bears the features of the early Neoclassical style.

On the Sauter’s map of Novi Sad, dated to the year 1889, we can see the floor plan of this house, on the land lot No. 860.

The floor plan of the house is in the shape of the Cyrillic letter “П,” with two side wings facing Laza Telečki Street, where the wings form a small rectangular courtyard with a semi-circular entrance door to the house. The floor plan of this house is a mirror image of the house at number 13.

In the 1926 photograph, a significant change to the street façade can be seen, where much of the former decorative façade elements were removed during reconstruction, and two then-modern three-wing windows were installed in place of the earlier four double-wing ones.

On the ground floor of the main façade of the house on Zmaj Jovina Street, a narrower entrance was located in the center, with two shop windows on each side.

On the upper floor of this façade, near the roof, a remnant of the former risalit has been preserved, in the form of a truncated rectangular panel.

The section of the parapet below the former long window on the right has been preserved, and during a recent renovation, four windows were reinstalled, with parapets modeled after this preserved section. The windows are set in simple, shallow plaster frames.

The façade on Laza Telečki Street consists of three sections:

• The façade of the larger left wing of the house, with two shop windows on the ground floor and, on the upper floor, three narrower blind windows, a shallow risalit, and one three-wing window installed during the renovation in the 1920s.
• The smaller rectangular courtyard, with a courtyard balcony connecting the upper-floor rooms, dominated the façade of the courtyard wing of the building; today it is closed off and converted into a commercial space.
• The façade of the right wing of the house has no decorative elements, featuring a shop entrance on the ground floor and a double-wing window in the middle of the upper floor.

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.