Novo groblje
Encyclopedia
Novo groblje is a cemetery
complex in Belgrade
, Serbia
. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara
municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian
cemetery in Belgrade. The newly developed cemetery in that period had no chapel or church. The current church dedicated to Saint Nicholas
was built in 1893 by Draginja and Stanojlo Petrović, through their generous endowment. The architect was Svetozar Ivačković
.
Except for the graves of ordinary citizens, the cemetery complex also includes special parts: military graves from Serbian-Ottoman War, Serbo-Bulgarian War
, Balkan Wars
and World Wars, the Alley of the Greats and Alley of Distinguished Citizens, where some of the most important persons of Serbian history are buried.
built in 1907 which contains remains of the soldiers of Serbian-Ottoman War and Serbo-Bulgarian War that were transferred from Tašmajdan cemetery. Another important part of the complex are the military graveyards with the remains of soldiers from Balkan Wars
and World Wars. It contains remains of Serbian and other Allied soldiers
, as well as Axis
soldiers (there are French
, Russia
n, British
, Italian
, German
, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgaria
n military graveyard). The complex of military graveyards also includes graves of those died in the 1941 and 1944 Bombing of Belgrade.
soldiers and the mass grave
of 1381 National Liberation Army soldiers and 711 Red Army soldiers who died during the Belgrade Offensive
.
The cemetery includes Liberators of Belgrade memorial with the relief
by sculptor Rade Stanković and the Red Army soldier sculpture by Antun Augustinčić
. In front of the memorial is the sculpture of a Partisan holding a gun by Rade Stanković.
and the Memorial to the Holocaust victims and Jewish soldiers died in World War II by the architect Bogdan Bogdanović
.
and Mayor of Belgrade
. It contains single and group tombs of important writers, artists, actors, generals, people's heroes and other important persons. Some of the people buried at the Alley of Distinguished Citizens are:
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
complex in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, 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...
. It is located in Ruzveltova street in Zvezdara
Zvezdara
Zvezdara is a hill, forest, urban neighborhood and one of 17 municipalities which constitute City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Location :...
municipality. The cemetery was built in 1886 as the third Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
cemetery in Belgrade. The newly developed cemetery in that period had no chapel or church. The current church dedicated to Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas , also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Bishop of Myra . Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker...
was built in 1893 by Draginja and Stanojlo Petrović, through their generous endowment. The architect was Svetozar Ivačković
Svetozar Ivackovic
Svetozar Ivačković was a distinguished post-Romantic Serbian architect; the most famous representative of the first epoch of the Serbian-Byzantine architectural revival in Serbia. He, like many Serbian architects of his time, was educated in Vienna...
.
Except for the graves of ordinary citizens, the cemetery complex also includes special parts: military graves from Serbian-Ottoman War, Serbo-Bulgarian War
Serbo-Bulgarian War
The Serbo-Bulgarian War was a war between Serbia and Bulgaria that erupted on 14 November 1885 and lasted until 28 November the same year. Final peace was signed on 19 February 1886 in Bucharest...
, Balkan Wars
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...
and World Wars, the Alley of the Greats and Alley of Distinguished Citizens, where some of the most important persons of Serbian history are buried.
Military graveyards
The oldest memorial at Novo groblje complex is the Serbian soldiers' ossuaryOssuary
An ossuary is a chest, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary...
built in 1907 which contains remains of the soldiers of Serbian-Ottoman War and Serbo-Bulgarian War that were transferred from Tašmajdan cemetery. Another important part of the complex are the military graveyards with the remains of soldiers from Balkan Wars
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...
and World Wars. It contains remains of Serbian and other Allied soldiers
Allies
In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them...
, as well as Axis
Axis Powers
The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...
soldiers (there are French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n, British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Austro-Hungarian and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n military graveyard). The complex of military graveyards also includes graves of those died in the 1941 and 1944 Bombing of Belgrade.
Liberators of Belgrade cemetery
Part of the Novo groblje complex, but on the other side of the street from the main part is the Liberators of Belgrade cemetery (Гробље ослободилаца Београда / Groblje oslobodilaca Beograda). It contains graves of 2944 National Liberation Army soldiers and 961 Red ArmyRed Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...
soldiers and the mass grave
Mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple number of human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave, although the United Nations defines a mass grave as a burial site which...
of 1381 National Liberation Army soldiers and 711 Red Army soldiers who died during the Belgrade Offensive
Belgrade Offensive
The Belgrade Offensive or the Belgrade Strategic Offensive Operation was an offensive military operation in which Belgrade was conquered from the German Wehrmacht by the joint efforts of the Yugoslav Partisans and the Soviet Red Army...
.
The cemetery includes Liberators of Belgrade memorial with the relief
Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane...
by sculptor Rade Stanković and the Red Army soldier sculpture by Antun Augustinčić
Antun Augustincic
Antun Augustinčić was a prominent Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century...
. In front of the memorial is the sculpture of a Partisan holding a gun by Rade Stanković.
Jewish cemetery
Next to the Liberators of Belgrade cemetery is the Jewish cemetery with the remains of Jewish soldiers died in the Balkan Wars and World War I, ossuary of Jewish refugees from AustriaAustria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and the Memorial to the Holocaust victims and Jewish soldiers died in World War II by the architect Bogdan Bogdanović
Bogdan Bogdanović
Bogdan Bogdanović was a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist. He taught architecture at the University of Belgrade, where he also served as dean...
.
Alley of the Greats
Alley of the Greats was created in the 19th century with move of the greats from the Tašmajdan Cemetery to the New Cemetery. It was formed in 1927, with 22 places for the tombs. Since 1927 there are no new tomb spots in that alley. Some of the people buried at the Alley of the Greats are:- Kornelije StankovićKornelije StankovicKornelije Stanković was a Serbian composer, said to have marked an era not only in Serbian, but also in South Slavic musical art.-External links:***...
(1831-1865), composer - Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac (1789-1878), donator
- Stevan Kaćanski (1828-1890), poet
- Petar KočićPetar KocicPetar Kočić was a Serb prose writer and politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was active in the Serbian National Organization with ties to the Mlada Bosna revolutionaries, after which he seceded with his closest supporters leading a wing under his leadership.Like both Borisav Stanković, who...
(1877-1916), writer - Jovan CvijićJovan CvijicJovan Cvijić was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the University of Belgrade. A world-renowned scientist, Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia.-Early life and family:Jovan Cvijić was born on October 11 Jovan Cvijić...
(1865-1927), geographer - Kosta Hristić (1852-1927), diplomat and writer
- Stevan HristićStevan HristicStevan Hristić , , was the most popular Serbian composer of the first half of the 20th century, remembered best for his technically cultivated compositions in the Neoromanticist, veristic, and Romanticist-Impressionist styles.-Biography:He conducted his primary studies in Leipzig, but also in...
(1885-1958), composer
Alley of Distinguished Citizens
Alley of Distinguished Citizens was formed in 1965, and that alley is used since then for the distinguished and important citizens burial, after special procedure and approval of the City Assembly of BelgradeBelgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
and Mayor of Belgrade
Mayor of Belgrade
The Mayor of Belgrade is the head of the City of Belgrade . He acts on behalf of the City, and performs an executive function in the City of Belgrade. The position of the Belgrade mayor is important as the city is the most important hub of economics, culture and science in Serbia...
. It contains single and group tombs of important writers, artists, actors, generals, people's heroes and other important persons. Some of the people buried at the Alley of Distinguished Citizens are:
- Paja JovanovićPaja JovanovicPavle "Paja" Jovanović was the most prominent Serbian Realist painter alongside Uroš Predić. He is considered one of Serbia's greatest academic painters. His most famous and recognizable paintings include Serbian Migrations, Crowning of Stefan Dušan, Takovo Uprising, Cockfighting, Decorating of...
, (1859-1957), painter - Radivoj KoraćRadivoj KoracRadivoj Korać , sometimes also Radivoje, was a successful Serbian basketball player from Yugoslavia....
, (1938-1969), basketball player - Petar LubardaPetar LubardaPetar Lubarda was a Serbian painter, considered to be an influential figure on post-war painting in former Yugoslavia....
, (1907-1974), painter - Mija AleksićMija AleksicMilosav "Mija" Aleksić was a beloved Serbian actor.Aleksić was born in Gornja Crnuća village in Gornji Milanovac municipality, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. During World War II, when Axis powers occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17-year-old Mija Aleksić attended high school in Kragujevac...
, (1923-1995), actor - Ivo AndrićIvo AndricIvan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...
, (1892-1975), writer, and Nobel PrizeNobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
winner - Miloš CrnjanskiMiloš CrnjanskiMiloš Crnjanski was a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat...
, (1893-1977), poet, author, and a diplomat. - Veljko VlahovićVeljko VlahovicVeljko Vlahović was a Montenegrin member of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935. He studied in Belgrade, Prague, and the Sorbonne , and finished his postgraduate studies in Moscow. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and was active in organizing the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia...
, (1914-1975), politician, Order of the National Hero bearer - Ivan StambolićIvan StambolicIvan Stambolić was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of the Republic of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination....
, (1936-2000), politician - Ljubinka Bobić, (1897-1978), actress
- Dušan Radović, (1922-1984), journalist and writer
- Branko ĆopićBranko CopicBranko Ćopić was Yugoslav writer. He was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.Upon the uprising in...
, (1915-1984), writer - Zoran RadmilovićZoran RadmilovicZoran Radmilović was a Serbian actor, beloved for some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema....
, (1933-1985), actor - Danilo KišDanilo KišDanilo Kiš was a Yugoslavian novelist, short story writer and poet who wrote in Serbo-Croatian. Kiš was influenced by Bruno Schulz, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Ivo Andrić, among other authors...
, (1935-1989), writer - Slobodan MarkovićSlobodan MarkovicSlobodan Marković is a Serbian international football midfielder playing currently for Tavriya Simferopol in the Ukrainian Premier League. He came to Tavriya in the summer of 2007....
, (1928-1990), poet - Vasko PopaVasko Popa- Biography :Popa was born in the village of Grebenac , Vojvodina, Serbia. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest and in Vienna...
, (1922-1991), poet - Borislav PekićBorislav PekicBorislav Pekić was a Serbian writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade...
, (1930-1992), writer - Milić od MačveMilic od MacveMilić Stanković, known by his artistic name Milić of Mačva , was a Serbian painter and artist. He graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Arts in 1959....
, (1934-2000), painter - Boško BuhaBoško BuhaBoško Buha was a young Yugoslav Partisan who used to be one of the greatest icons of World War II in the former Yugoslavia.Boško Buha was born to Serbian parents in the Slavonian village of Gradina, near Virovitica in today's Croatia...
, (1959-2002), general - Zoran Đinđić, (1952-2003), prime minister of Serbia
- Stevo ŽigonStevo ŽigonStevo Žigon was a famous Serbian and Slovenian actor, theatre director, and writer. His origins were primary Italian....
, (1926-2005), actor - Nikola LjubičićNikola LjubicicNikola Ljubičić was the President of the Presidency of Serbia , a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , and the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia...
, (1916-2005), general, Order of the National Hero bearer - Ljuba TadićLjuba TadicLjubomir "Ljuba" Tadić was a Serbian actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema....
, (1929-2005), actor - Nenad BogdanovićNenad BogdanovicNenad Bogdanović was the mayor of Belgrade, elected to office in October 2004.-Education and career:...
, (1954-2007), Mayor of BelgradeMayor of BelgradeThe Mayor of Belgrade is the head of the City of Belgrade . He acts on behalf of the City, and performs an executive function in the City of Belgrade. The position of the Belgrade mayor is important as the city is the most important hub of economics, culture and science in Serbia... - Milenko ZablaćanskiMilenko ZablacanskiMilenko Zablaćanski, , , was a Serbian actor, director, and playwright.-Career:...
, (1955-2008), actor
External links
- Novo groblje official site
- Novo groblje sa Alejom velikana at [www.ANTIC.org]
- Nenad Bogdanović will not sign decision about Slobodan Milošević burial in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens, 13. Mart 2006.
- Ljuba Tadić buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens
- Mayor of Belgrade Nenad Bogdanović buried in the New Cemetery, 30. September 2007.