Hello everyone in today's post I will write you my song about my neighborhood where I live this is a song I wrote and came up with I hope you like it

What do you think if you did something

What do you think if something in the place of rain all the banks of tens of thousands of beautiful new tanks fell

I wouldn't even bend down for that mild bastard, he would throw a basket on his head, so he would walk like that

he would walk right where the tax is bought, he would spill these banks on a wide bench

for the poor of Sangai, here is the tax I give if I have known her bitter woes for a long time.

Something about my place

Shanghai (Novi Sad)

Location of the settlement

Map of the city districts of Novi Sad, showing the location of Shanghai

Entrance to Shanghai

Shanghai is located in the northeastern part of the urban city area, on the old road to Kac, which was closed to traffic in the early 1990s. The settlement is completely surrounded by the Working Zone North 4. In the administrative sense, the settlement Shanghai is part of the territory of the local community "Shanghai", which in addition to this settlement includes the eastern part of the Working Zone North 4. Shanghai has an area of 0.13 - {km²} - , and in the immediate vicinity of the settlement there is an oil refinery of the Oil Industry of Serbia, a thermal power plant - heating plant, as well as the river Danube.

Name and history

The former name of this part of the city was Vrbak, and people came there on the dawn of St. George's Day and May. The construction of the Shanghai settlement began at the end of the 19th century, and it was named after the Shanghai buffet, which was built in the settlement by Tihomir Brančić (the name of the buffet itself comes from the name of the city of the same name in China). Between the two world wars, the name of the settlement was Brančićevo naselje, after the surname of the owner of the mentioned buffet.

Map of Novi Sad and its surroundings from the beginning of the 18th century with the inscribed War Island and the remains of a Turkish fortress

Map of Novi Sad from 1805 with the inscribed War Island and the remains of a Turkish fortress

In the past, the area where Shanghai is located was an island and was called "War Island" and "Petrovaradin Hell", and until the first half of the 18th century, this island was considered part of Srem and was a whole with Petrovaradin. The Danube had two streams here: the northern meander through today's Veliki rit and the southern shortcut below the Petrovaradin suburb, which was not navigable at the time. The Turks built a fortress on this island in the 16th century and that is why they called the island "Ada - kale" (in Serbian: "island - fortress" or "war island"). This fortress was connected to Petrovaradin by a bridge.

After the battle of Senta, on September 11, 1687, the Turks withdrew from these parts, and in 1692, the Austrian state began to build today's Petrovaradin Fortress on the other side of the river. The Matica Dunava completely changed its course, so that at the end of the 18th century, the former shortcut became the main bed of the Danube. Gradually, the former riverbed sank, which was completely buried in many places, as a result of which the War Island merged with the mainland on the Bačka side and remained only as a geographical term. The former Turkish fortress lost its strategic importance and collapsed.

From the departure of the Turks until the end of the 19th century, there were no significant events in this area. Only in the middle of the eighties of the 19th century, the contours of the first settlement, Old Shanghai, can be seen, which is connected with the construction of the city slaughterhouse. Workers of the Novi Sad slaughterhouse built residential houses, which started the construction of the settlement, the forerunner of today's Shanghai. This settlement was then called "Naselje kod Klanice".

Old Shanghai had 150 houses in 1940, and due to flood problems, the City Administration decided that the inhabitants of the settlement should move to Klis and Slana Bar. Part of the population then moved away, but some returned and renovated their houses in the settlement, so that in 1941, Old Shanghai had only about fifty houses. Under occupation in 1942, some Shanghai residents, mostly Roma, were killed in the raid. The new post-war Yugoslav government used the official name "War Island" for this settlement. In the middle of the fifties of the 20th century, there were almost 200 houses in the settlement.

A new epoch in the history of the settlement began in 1957, when a decision was made to build the Žeželj Bridge and the mill-industrial complex "Danubius" on the site of the then settlement, which meant relocating the bed of the DTD canal, with a new mouth. The settlement of "War Island" (Shanghai) was then moved to a new "temporary" location, where it is still located today.

By 1959, all of them, with financial compensation, moved from Old Shanghai and built their houses on a new location, then called "Kalishte" (this name comes from the Turkish word "kale" - fortress, or from the former Turkish fortress that is here found). About 100 families moved from the old Shanghai to the new one, while the rest moved around the city. At that time, the Shanghai people named their new settlement "Kidričevo", after Boris Kidrič. The city government did not accept that name, believing that the character and work of this revolutionary would be humiliated by the fact that such an infamous settlement would be named after him. That is why, at the meeting of citizens in Shanghai, in 1961, it was voted that the settlement be officially called by the well-known name of the people - Shanghai.

In the early 1960s, there were 400 residential buildings in Shanghai. A four-year primary school was opened in the settlement in 1961, and in the mid-1960s a Community Center was opened. The new school building was erected in 1969, and an ambulance was opened in the old one. In 1974, Shanghai became the thirtieth local community in Novi Sad. At that time, the existing building of the local community was built. Since 1980, the city authorities have been trying to relocate the settlement due to the great pollution of the environment, which arose as a consequence of the proximity of the oil refinery and the thermal power plant.

During the NATO bombing in 1999, Shanghai suffered significant destruction and great environmental damage, because it found itself in a triangle of strategically important points: refineries, thermal power plants and Žeželj's bridge over the Danube. Several bombs of great destructive power fell in the immediate vicinity of the settlement, and two in the settlement itself. There is no house that has not suffered damage. The school, the ambulance, the local community and the kindergarten were damaged. During an air attack on June 7, 1999, the settlement was hit by air-to-ground missiles, killing Milan Bajić, while Sulejman Dalipi and his two sons were seriously wounded, and six others were lightly wounded.

Population

According to the company JKP Informatika Novi Sad, there are 1,806 inhabitants in the area of the local community "Shanghai" (2010). [1] About 1/5 of the population of the settlement are Roma.

Institutions

Shanghai has its own local community, then a kindergarten, school, Orthodox church, clinic, market, shops, and in 2010 the first Roma library in Serbia was opened in the settlement, which acts as a branch of the Novi Sad city library. The headquarters of the Democratic Roma Party of Serbia is also located in Shanghai.

Sports

The sports association "Jedinstvo" was founded in the settlement in 1959, and the football club "Jedinstvo" also operates within the association. The club was the champion of the Novi Sad league several times.

Traffic

Shanghai is connected to the rest of the city by only one road, the Šajkaški odred detachment, which connects with the Novi Sad-Zrenjanin road, which leads to the central part of Novi Sad via the Kać bridge and the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal. With the rest of Novi Sad, Shanghai is connected by bus line 21.

Sources

JKP Informatika Novi Sad - statistics at the local community level

Branko Ćurčin, Novi Sad settlement Shanghai then and now, Novi Sad, 2004.

Literature

Branko Ćurčin, Novi Sad settlement Shanghai then and now, Novi Sad, 2004.

Dr. Dušan Popov, Shanghai, Encyclopedia of Novi Sad, book 30, Novi Sad, 2009.

Milorad Grujić, Guide through Novi Sad and its surroundings, Novi Sad, 2004.

Jovan Mirosavljević, Novi Sad - street atlas, Novi Sad, 1998.

Jovan Mirosavljević, Breviary of Novi Sad Street 1745-2001, Novi Sad, 2002.

Zoran Rapajić, Novi Sad without secrets, Belgrade, 2002.

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it.