Arboretum New building of the Faculty of forestry was built in 1956, right above
Careva Ćuprija, where the northwest section of the vast wood of Košutnjak begins at an altitude of 110-125 meters. Professors and students began developing a dendrology collection in 1957, which grew into the Arboretum of the Faculty of Forestry, a specific botanical garden which was
protected by the state in July 2011 as the natural monument. It is used as an classroom in the open, for the practical studies of the students but also by the scientist for their work. The arboretum has its nursery garden and the greenhouse. On 6.7 hectares, the arboretum holds 2,000 individual specimen of 300 trees and shrubs. They include 218 deciduous and 24 conifer species, out of which 80 are ornamental, and 40 species of the perennial plants. There are 77 domestic and 146 foreign species, including:
narrow-leafed ash,
Balkan maple,
Balkan forsythia,
laburnum,
giant sequoia,
cedar,
cherry laurel (new variety developed in arboretum),
Himalayan pine and the oldest
metasequoia in Belgrade.
Cinema Šumadija One of the symbols of the neighborhood is the "Šumadija" cinema, part of the complex of Čukarica Cultural Centre in Turgenjevljeva Street. The construction began in 1950 and with constant changes and additions, continued to 1959 when was finished. It was officially declared a Čukarica Cultural House on 28 February 1960. It contained cinema, library, theatre scene, concert hall, etc.
Television Belgrade's first quiz show, hosted by
Mića Orlović, was broadcast from here. The venue was considered to be one of the most modern in
Yugoslavia at the time, patterned after the Soviet halls. It hosted shows, orchestral concerts, box matches, revues, musicals, etc. The cinema was fully renovated in 2001 and privatized, but the new owners closed it in 2003. The complex later returned to the municipal ownership and in 2017 the reconstruction began. By the December 2017 it should be reopened.
Military cemetery After fierce fighting in the
World War I, German occupation army conquered Belgrade in October 1915. German commander,
Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen, ordered for the dead soldiers to be buried on the hill above Banovo Brdo. Amazed by the bravery of the Serbian soldiers who defended the city, Mackensen ordered for Serbian dead soldiers to be buried in the center of the cemetery: bodies of 36 Serbian soldiers from the 7th Infantry Regiment, one British and one French soldier were surrounded by the bodies of 2,600 German soldiers. This act surprised even Mackensen's subordinated officers. Above each grave there was a cross with information about the deceased, from their military papers. He also erected three monuments. Two were for the German soldiers while the third one, shaped like a simple stone block, says in Serbian and German: "Here rest Serbian heroes, 1915". When German emperor
Wilhelm II arrived in Belgrade in 1916, a large stone bench was built for him by the German soldiers. So as the monument, it was made from the marble which Belgrade municipality purchased in 1911 and which was planned for the reconstruction of the central city square
Terazije and the
Terazije fountain. The bench was placed on the point on the hill from which the emperor could see the entire Belgrade below.
Protection As of 2018, there were two protected objects in central Banovo Brdo. The
House at 1 Turgenjev Street, built in 1935, has been declared a
cultural monument. Originally built as a family house of medical doctor Radomir Ćirković, since 1936 it became a gathering place for the members of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The tree of
European yew in the yard of the
Saint Sava kindergarten at 28 Požeška Street, was declared a
natural monument. == Population ==