Trade academy
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Trade academy is located at the bank of the Begej river, in Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
.
History
Trade academy was built in 1892 by the projects of Hungarian architect István KissIstván Kiss
István Kiss was a Hungarian architect.He finished his studies at Budapest University in 1880 and, between 1882 and 1885, traveled overseas on state scholarship...
. Kiss used Florentian
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
sort of Neorenaissance, combined with masterful sgraffito
Sgraffito
Sgraffito is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface, or in ceramics, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an...
technique on the upper floor. Main facade looks at the Begej river (turned into lake in 1985) and Court house
Zrenjanin Court House
Zrenjanin Court House is a seat of Municipal, District and Trade Court in Zrenjanin. It has been the Palace of Justice since it was built.- Building :...
across it. This was Kiss's first building in Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin
Zrenjanin is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of Serbian province of Vojvodina. It is the administrative centre of the Central Banat District of Serbia...
(then Nagybecskerek) after which he projected Finance palace
Finance palace
Finance palace, is a two-floored neo-renaissance palace on the main square in Zrenjanin and one of the most beautiful buildings in the city...
, nearby Trade academy.
"Trade academy"
Trade academy (today Economics school "Jovan Trajković") was founded in 1895 and moved in a newly built building. School moved from this building in 1983, when the School of Electrical engineeringElectrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
"Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
" was founded and moved in. Since then, Economics school works in a new building.
Today
Building of Trade academy is now used by Electrical engineering school. One half of the building, towards Subotićeva street and National museumFinance palace
Finance palace, is a two-floored neo-renaissance palace on the main square in Zrenjanin and one of the most beautiful buildings in the city...
building, was last time renovated in 1982. Other half of the building is in a very bad condition. Sgraffito decoration is only visible from Subotićeva street.