![]() ![]() The goal of the bicycle tour to Beočin was to see the famous Spitzer Castle, built in 1898 for a family of rich German landowners who were one of the owners of the Beočin Cement Plant. On the left is a typical working class neighbourhood, next to the one in Vrdnik, which was built for miners – one of the most valuable examples of the architecture of organized workers’ housing from the early 20th century.ġ20 years ago, the owners of the Vrdnik mine and the Beočin cement plant paid more attention to the housing style of their workers than rich entrepreneurs and the transition winners do in their mansions today. Through the tall vegetation, I enter the former Post Office building, a ruined Art Nouveau beauty that today stands empty with documents scattered on the floor from several decades ago when telegrams and letters were still sorted out here. On the right side there is a cement factory which has several buildings of valuable historical heritage, also neglected. From the devastated buildings in the port, the road leads me to the centre of the place. The raft that transports passengers from Futog to Beočin docks on the Srem side of the Danube and in front of us is a town that cries out for a Truman Capote-like description. KARASCONYI CASTLE IN NOVO MILOŠEVO: First a count’s palace, then a school, a chemical factory and an abandoned ruin in the end The problem of dozens of abandoned and devastated castles should be solved by the Republic of Serbia or the Province of Vojvodina making a clear decision to give all these neglected beauties a new purpose after restoration because local governments usually have neither the will nor the means to solve complicated legal and property issues that are in the background of almost every case.
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