Gornji Grad (Zemun)

Gornji Grad ( sr-cyr, Горњи Град) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zemun.

Location

Gornji Grad is located in the northern part of Zemun, spreading along the right bank of the Danube. It is roughly bounded by the ''Ugrinovačka'' and ''Banatska'' streets, while other important streets include ''Cara Dušana'' and ''Pregrevica''. Being elongated and one of the largest neighborhoods of Zemun, Gornji Grad is bordered by many other neighborhoods: Gardoš on the east, Ćukovac and Muhar on the southeast, Sava Kovačević, Sutjeska, Zemun Bačka and Bački Ilovik on the south, Altina on the southwest, while in the west it extends in the direction of Nova Galenika and Goveđi Brod. The section along the bank of the Danube is known as the sub-neighborhood of Pregrevica, after the main street in this part of Gornji Grad.

Characteristics

The name of the neighborhood is descriptive, meaning the "upper town", above the Gardoš hill, as opposed to the neighborhood of Donji Grad, the "lower town", below the hill. According to the 2002 Census, it had a population of 15,819. It consisted of two local communities within the Zemun municipality, "Branko Pešić" and "Janko Lisjak Puška", but the municipality later abolished the local communities in the urban section of Zemun.

Features

Some important facilities in the neighborhood include:

* three stadiums, those of FK Teleoptik, FK Zemun (Zemun's City Stadium) and FK Milutinac
* "INSA", the clockmaking factory, and "Teleoptik", the precision mechanics factory
* large number of schools, including Higher medical school, Higher internal affairs school, Transportation school, Institute for physics and half a dozen of elementary and secondary schools, plus the Riding school and the Home for the blind and visually impaired.

Gornja Varoš Elementary School

Founded on 31 October 1799, it is the oldest continuously operational school in modern Belgrade (Zemun wasn't part of Belgrade until 1934). There are schools which were older, but were either closed in the meantime, or didn't start as educational facilities. It is also located on the same place, but changed a dozen of states and also so many names.

It was founded after requests by the Serbian population, settled around the Church of the Holy Trinity. Modern Gornji Grad area was mostly inhabited by Germans, who already had their schools. Austrian authorities allowed Stefan Stratimirović, Serbian metropolitan, to open the school next to the church. Original school building was on the present location. At the end of the 19th century the new building was constructed on the other side of the church. School operated in this object until 1968 when the new building was finished on the original location. It was built during the mayoral term of Branko Pešić, born and raised in Zemun, who lived nearby. Previous building served as part of the school for a while, before it was adapted into the school for adults.

The only short period when school was closed was during World War I, when Hungarian military unit occupied the building. Some of the previous school names include the original name Gornjovaroška Pučka Škola, Kraljević Andrej and Vladimir Nazor. In the 2010s, both exterior and interior walls were painted by Miodrag Ivanović. Depending on the location and classroom, murals depict Charles Darwin, Christopher Columbus, Stevan Mokranjac, Ludwig van Beethoven, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Nikola Tesla