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Jevremovac
The Jevremovac Botanical Garden (Serbian Cyrillic: Ботаничка башта Јевремовац, romanized: Botanička bašta Jevremovac) is the botanical garden of the University of Belgrade and also a surrounding urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. The garden is located in the municipality of Stari Grad and is administered by the University of Belgrade's School of Biology.
It was declared a natural monument in 1995 and a cultural monument in 2007.
Jevremovac is located in the westernmost part of the Palilula neighborhood, but after the changes of the municipal administrative borders in 1952, 1955 and 1957, it did not become part of the municipality of Palilula but of Stari Grad. It is bounded by the Boulevard of Despot Stefan and the streets of Takovska, Dalmatinska, Palmotićeva and Vojvode Dobrnjca.
The botanical garden was founded in 1874 by the decree of the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Serbia, at the suggestion of the botanist Josif Pančić, who also became its first manager. Original lot assigned to Pančić was on the bank of the Danube, in the neighborhood of Dorćol, at the end of the Dunavska Street. Lots were abandoned by the ethnic Turks who left Belgrade after Turkish military garrison left the city, too, in 1867. City donated 1,400 ducats and Pančić arranged it, bit by bit. Terrain was adapted, and an embankment on the Danube was constructed. Pančić was pleased that the lot was in the vicinity of the downtown and the Kalemegdan Park, so that Belgraders can visit the garden with ease. The lot was parceled into several separate garden areas, a house for the gardener was built and the garden was officially opened in 1880.
However, proximity of the garden to the Danube didn't bode well for the development of the garden due to the flooding, despite the embankment. Pančić applied for another patch of land but died in 1888. One month after his death, in October 1888, major flooding destroyed almost everything Pančić planted. A year later, in 1889, even bigger flood inundated the remnants of the garden under a water one meter deep and destroyed everything that survived from the previous flood. Only some specimen, transferred to the garden of the Red Cross, survived. The garden became unusable.
In Pančić's honor, in 1889, king Milan Obrenović donated the estate (former orchard and vineyard, inherited from his grandfather Jevrem Obrenović) to the Great School in Belgrade for the purpose of the construction of new botanical garden, provided that it be named "Jevremovac" (Serbian for "Jevrem's garden"), after his grandfather. The lot was originally owned by the brothers Jovan German (1782–1854) and Mihailo Todorović German (d.1845). Even then, it was arranged as the large garden. Jovan was Jevrem's secretary and married his daughter Simka. As Jevrem survived Jovan, Simka and their three sons, who all died in childhood, he inherited the lot. At the time, the estate was on the outskirts of Belgrade, but soon city spread further from it, leaving the garden as an urban oasis. It exists to this day at the same location and under the same name and gave its name to the small surrounding neighborhood. Apart from its founder, Josif Pančić, very important for the development and growth of Jevremovac was its longtime manager (1906–1934), Nedeljko Košanin under whose supervision the botanical garden experienced its golden age.
In 1936, relocation of the garden was suggested. The proposed new location was Topčider park, on the outskirts of the city at the time. The reasons included description of Jevremovac as the "dead capital regarding city esthetics". Ultimately, the garden was not moved. After World War II, the new Communist authorities suppressed public usage of the word Jevremovac, so it was simply referred to as the "botanical garden" until the 1990s, when Jevremovac came into common usage again. Additionally, the arboretum was seriously neglected for decades, with the number of plants being reduced from 4,000 to 2,500, and has only recently[when?] began its partial renovation and beautification. It now hosts 60,000 visitors a year, and is the second most visited natural monument in Serbia, after the mountain and national park Kopaonik.[citation needed]
On 27 September 2022, a bust of Jevrem Obrenović was dedicated in the garden. It was placed under the old pedunculate oak tree, believed to existing before the land was donated for the garden.
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Jevremovac
The Jevremovac Botanical Garden (Serbian Cyrillic: Ботаничка башта Јевремовац, romanized: Botanička bašta Jevremovac) is the botanical garden of the University of Belgrade and also a surrounding urban neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. The garden is located in the municipality of Stari Grad and is administered by the University of Belgrade's School of Biology.
It was declared a natural monument in 1995 and a cultural monument in 2007.
Jevremovac is located in the westernmost part of the Palilula neighborhood, but after the changes of the municipal administrative borders in 1952, 1955 and 1957, it did not become part of the municipality of Palilula but of Stari Grad. It is bounded by the Boulevard of Despot Stefan and the streets of Takovska, Dalmatinska, Palmotićeva and Vojvode Dobrnjca.
The botanical garden was founded in 1874 by the decree of the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Serbia, at the suggestion of the botanist Josif Pančić, who also became its first manager. Original lot assigned to Pančić was on the bank of the Danube, in the neighborhood of Dorćol, at the end of the Dunavska Street. Lots were abandoned by the ethnic Turks who left Belgrade after Turkish military garrison left the city, too, in 1867. City donated 1,400 ducats and Pančić arranged it, bit by bit. Terrain was adapted, and an embankment on the Danube was constructed. Pančić was pleased that the lot was in the vicinity of the downtown and the Kalemegdan Park, so that Belgraders can visit the garden with ease. The lot was parceled into several separate garden areas, a house for the gardener was built and the garden was officially opened in 1880.
However, proximity of the garden to the Danube didn't bode well for the development of the garden due to the flooding, despite the embankment. Pančić applied for another patch of land but died in 1888. One month after his death, in October 1888, major flooding destroyed almost everything Pančić planted. A year later, in 1889, even bigger flood inundated the remnants of the garden under a water one meter deep and destroyed everything that survived from the previous flood. Only some specimen, transferred to the garden of the Red Cross, survived. The garden became unusable.
In Pančić's honor, in 1889, king Milan Obrenović donated the estate (former orchard and vineyard, inherited from his grandfather Jevrem Obrenović) to the Great School in Belgrade for the purpose of the construction of new botanical garden, provided that it be named "Jevremovac" (Serbian for "Jevrem's garden"), after his grandfather. The lot was originally owned by the brothers Jovan German (1782–1854) and Mihailo Todorović German (d.1845). Even then, it was arranged as the large garden. Jovan was Jevrem's secretary and married his daughter Simka. As Jevrem survived Jovan, Simka and their three sons, who all died in childhood, he inherited the lot. At the time, the estate was on the outskirts of Belgrade, but soon city spread further from it, leaving the garden as an urban oasis. It exists to this day at the same location and under the same name and gave its name to the small surrounding neighborhood. Apart from its founder, Josif Pančić, very important for the development and growth of Jevremovac was its longtime manager (1906–1934), Nedeljko Košanin under whose supervision the botanical garden experienced its golden age.
In 1936, relocation of the garden was suggested. The proposed new location was Topčider park, on the outskirts of the city at the time. The reasons included description of Jevremovac as the "dead capital regarding city esthetics". Ultimately, the garden was not moved. After World War II, the new Communist authorities suppressed public usage of the word Jevremovac, so it was simply referred to as the "botanical garden" until the 1990s, when Jevremovac came into common usage again. Additionally, the arboretum was seriously neglected for decades, with the number of plants being reduced from 4,000 to 2,500, and has only recently[when?] began its partial renovation and beautification. It now hosts 60,000 visitors a year, and is the second most visited natural monument in Serbia, after the mountain and national park Kopaonik.[citation needed]
On 27 September 2022, a bust of Jevrem Obrenović was dedicated in the garden. It was placed under the old pedunculate oak tree, believed to existing before the land was donated for the garden.