
📜 History · Belišće
Kompleks radničkih zgrada
The complex of workers' residential houses consists of nine buildings, built in the late 19th century by the Hungarian industrialist S. H. Gutmann, in parallel with the construction of its sawmill.
Seven (17-23) of a total of eight former street attic houses with their own gardens were built from 1890 to 1892. years. Two (15a and 15b) of the three pereserved residential buildings Belisce were built in 1884 and 1885, and in 2015 completely refurbished within the European ILPAN project CBC Hungary-Croatia, which aims to show the industrial heritage as a new tourist offer.
What can you find within the houses? Nowadays, in a building (15b) the Office of the Tourist Board of Belisce, can be found, while in the second (15a), all visitors have the opportunity to see exhibition of contents from the cultural, social and sports life of the city and suburbs. Also, in the same building, there is an exhibition of ancient artifacts.
A special feature of the complex The complex consists of typical vineyard cottage with a ground floor and the decorated attic space to which which you can approach from "klander" - a wooden staircase to the gable facade. Originally, all the buildings had proper rectangular floor plan, while the supplementary premises were added under roofs with gable fronts or sides. Nex to the buildings one could found and small vegetable gardens, combining both worker and traditional residential architecture.
Registered and protected monument since 1993.
Fun Fact: Slang name "Jam Street" was given to the street because, before, in the backyard of these houses in large boilers - Elderberry jam was cooked and the smell spread all over the street! The people of Belisce use thaz name even today. Also, it is interesting to mention the walnut trees that were planted along the home or the road, and hydrangea bushes that abundantly bloom in the shade of a walnut and for many years beautified “Jam Street".