Current names

The Post Office Palace, The Romanian Post Office, The Central Post Office

Dating

Building permit April 15, 1911, sewage connection September 1, 1913, water connection May 28, 1914.

Current functions

Different directorates and post offices.

Architectural style

1900s style, geometrized szeceszió movement.

From a plastic point of view, the ground floor serves as a base for the two level columns from the 1st and 2nd floors.

Architect Ignatz Alpar

Current name

“The Canons’ Houses” – for all four houses in the block

Dating

1758 – all four houses named today “The Canons’ Houses” (8, 9 ,10 and 11 Unirii Square) used to form a single building.  The unitary façade could still be seen in 1844.

Names and historical functions

1828 – the house at no. 10 was called “The Canons’ House”

Later, various businesses on the ground floor

Architectural style

The original façade was done in the Austrian Baroque style

The fountain in the Unirii Square (between the Holy Trinity statue and the Catholic Cathedral) is also indirectly related to the plague and marshy area diseases from Timişoara.

The statue of the Holy Trinity (“the plague monument”) and thUnirii Square fountain are positioned in the middle of Unirii Square.

The statue of the Holy Trinity  is considered to be the most outstanding monument of Baroque art creation in Timişoara. Presumably (based on stylistic analogies with other works) it is a creation of Viennese sculptor Georg Raphael Donner. It was commissioned by counselor Anton Deschan von Hansen.

The Serbian Community House

Current name

The Cetate Serbian Community House
Dating

In 1786, there was a small building on this site.

It was built-up sometime after 1812 and before 1828, probably in 1821; the current building belonged to the Orthodox Community.

Names and historical functions

1823 – the Orthodox school operated here.

1847 – is mentioned as the “New Illyrian House”, with a wine cellar and stores on the ground floor.

1853 – nine shops

Dating

1758 – the first house existing here with a ground and first floor

The current building: Salamon Brück – building permit April 16, 1910, use permit June 18, 1911.

Names and historical functions

1828 – owner Peter Zivkovich (Zsifkovits, Jivcovici ). The “La Crucea de Aur“ (“The Golden Cross”) Pharmacy was demolished.

Architectural style

The building was initially made in the Austrian Baroque style.

Current name

The Dome, the Roman - Catholic Episcopal Church

Address

12 Unirii Square

Historical names

The Main Church, Hauptkirche

Dating

Founded on August 6, 1736, completed in 1774

Architectural style

Historical names

Hauptplatz, Domplatz, Losonczy tér, Unirii (Union) Square

Dating, historical functions

Until 1716, the square’s actual area was crossed diagonally from the south-east corner to the north-west one by the inner city’s defense wall. The fortification was made of earth, protected towards the outside by a massive timber logs palisade, plastered with lime. In front of the wall, to the outside, the fortress’ main moat lay. Damaged during the 1716
siege, the wall was later repaired.

Dating

1745 – 1747

Names and historical functions

Orthodox bishop's residence. In 1865, at the hierarchical separation between Romanians and Serbians, the complex remained in the Serbian community’s possession. Today, the Serbian Vicariate is established here.

Architectural style

Current name

The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral

Dating

Between 1744 and 1748, the Orthodox Episcopal Church (Cathedral) is built, on the site of the old fortifications existing in the sixteenth century and demolished after 1740.

The towers existing in 1760, covered with sheet copper, were raised in the years 1791 and 1792.

Historical names and functions